How should I add a prepaid debit card to Quicken

Marvin Gardens

My new health insurance comes with a pre-paid debit card that I can use to buy OTC products. How should I add it to Quicken so I can track the balance? I d not expect to be downloading transactions from any bank.

Perhaps an Asset account?

Boatnmaniac

I have set up manual Cash accounts for them (Add Account > Other Assets & Liabilities > Cash on Hand).  You can name it whatever you want.  During the setup process you will be asked for what the opening balance is....just enter the pre-paid debit card amount as a positive number for that.

You could also set it up as a manual Credit Card account (Add Account > Offline Account > Credit Card).  But during the set up process enter the pre-paid amount as a negative number so it will show up in the account register as a positive account balance.

Then just manually enter your purchase transactions going forward.  Quicken will debit the positive account balance in the register.

UKR

Make this account an offline (manual) Checking account.