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JoeQuick

Too many disparate threads on rollovers for quicken on mac that makes the vote count of 159 on the 2020 post I was directed to CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ACCURATE. This will be my last attempt to encourage quicken developers to fix this missing staple of personnal financial budgeting software. To not provide month-to-month budget category rollover is just silly and sends a clear message to mac users that Quicken doesn't care.

NotACPA

How about posting a link to the thread that you referenced … so that we don't have to go hunt for it?

AND, when I click on your UserID in this thread, this shows as your only post … so what's this "last attempt" business???

jacobs

@JoeQuick Yes, please paste a link for the Idea topic you're describing, as I wasn't able to find it in a quick skim of Idea posts.

Why do you say the count of 159 votes "cannot possibly be accurate"? Because you believe it's important and can't believe more people haven't voted for it? A thread with 159 votes is probably in the top 10% on this site.

To not provide month-to-month budget category rollover is just silly and sends a clear message to mac users that Quicken doesn't care.

It definitely does NOT mean that, in my experience and opinion. It only means that the small Quicken Mac development team has not yet gotten to build such a feature, because they are juggling hundreds of feature requests. The votes here aren't the sole determinant of what gets done or not, but the votes here do give them some overall sense of which topics a significant number of users of this site think are important.

I'd note that nothing in the budget — and there are a dozen or more significant feature requests in this area — have been acted upon in recent years. The former Mac product manager once explained that the existing budget code was very technically complex, and adding the various enhancements users were asking for would probably require them to significantly re-write the entire budget section of the program. (That's why we still don't have the simple capability to generate a budget-versus actual report from the prior month.) Now, the good news is that the developers have signaled they are now in the process of updating the budget code, so I'm expecting we'll see some changes and new features sometime later this year.