Quicken Classic Mac 8.1 has been released!

Quicken Bree

We have started to roll out Quicken Classic for Mac (8.1)!

You can get the latest Quicken build by clicking "Check for Updates" under the Quicken menu.

Thank you for your help and support.

Best Regards,

The Quicken for Mac Team

Please take a moment to review the summary and try the new features in the product. 

Sidebar

• IMPROVED You can now resize the Separate Accounts section in the sidebar, offering more control over how you view and organize your accounts

Investments

• NEW An Account filter has been added to the Capital Gain Estimator, allowing you to display securities by specific account (available in Deluxe, Premier, and Business & Personal subscriptions)

Zillow integration (available in the US for Premier and Business & Personal subscriptions)

• IMPROVED The status of the property account linked to Zillow is now displayed in the Connection Status window
• IMPROVED A blue dot next to Real Estate accounts now indicates that the account has received a price update

Business & Personal

• NEW The new Invoices card on the Business dashboard provides quick access to invoice status, including totals for Open, Overdue, and Paid invoices
• NEW You can now use the View Activity feature for an invoice, which displays a log of relevant actions and dates to help you quickly track its progress
• NEW You can now easily import and export Clients information in Quicken, streamlining your client management process
• NEW Added a Void Invoice feature, which lets you cancel invoices while preserving their records for tracking purposes
• NEW You can now create a new category directly from the Create/Edit Product or Service window, simplifying the process of adding and organizing items
• NEW You can now view the related invoice when deleting an in-use Billable Expense transaction from the register
• NEW A Deposit Funds button has been added to Undeposited Funds accounts, making fund transfers easier
• IMPROVED The invoice status now appears directly on the invoice, making it easy to see its current state (e.g., Draft, Open)
• IMPROVED Invoice number(s) related to Client Payment transaction are now displayed in the Accounts Receivable register for better tracking
• IMPROVED The Cash Flow report is now calculated using the indirect method, providing a more comprehensive view of cash flow
• IMPROVED Users can now enter non-numeric values in the Invoice # field, offering more flexibility in invoice management
• IMPROVED The Totals line on the Accounts Receivable Aging report now displays the sum for each column, making it easier to review outstanding balances
• IMPROVED Added a Memo field in the Issue Refund window
• IMPROVED Client column is now available on drill down detail reports, allowing for more financial insights and better client tracking

Other

• IMPROVED Updated settings for 2025 IRS tax brackets, mileage rates, and quarterly Business Estimated Tax due dates
• NEW Added a new item to the Q menu (main window) and Quicken menu (menu bar) for quick access to information about Quicken LifeHub
• IMPROVED Updated the financial institution (FI) search in the Add Account flow to prioritize popular financial institutions, displaying them at the top of the search results

jacobs

The continued refinement of the business features is good to see — for those users who run a business and have a Business & Personal subscription. For those who don't have a Business subscription, though, this is a second consecutive release with very little added functionality, and we continue to hope that some of the promised major feature upgrades will begin arriving soon.

For Business users, even with the new features, I continue to find it a bit cumbersome to track payment history, particularly when payments are split among invoices and when a payment has been misapplied to the wrong invoice. I created a new Idea thread requesting a few changes which would make tracking payments easier: a main Payments list view page (just like the Invoices list view page), main a payment number visible for each payment in order to track which payment was applied where, and including in the Memo field of Client Payment bank transactions the invoice(s) the payment was applied to. If you're a Business & Personal user, please take a look at this feature request and add your vote and comments.

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7960478/business-page-needs-a-main-tab-for-payments

Alin

Is it just me, or does the updater keep going in a loop?

I'm currently on version 8.0.1, and every time I start Quicken, it asks me if I want to update. I click "yes," it goes through the update process, restarts Quicken, and then I'm still on 8.0.1. It asks me again if I want to update.

I've gone through this loop three times now and have given up.

This isn't the first time it's happened. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

jacobs

@Alin My update took place smoothly on the first try, on two different Macs.

My suggestion for you is to log in to the Quicken.com website, download the Quicken Mac installer, drag the Quicken.app from the Applications folder to the Trash, and then run the installer. (The only thing is that I don't know if they have updated the version on Quicken/com yet; you might have to wait until early next week if they still have version 8.0.1 there.)

A possible source of the issue is your Quicken preferences file, which may have a stuck setting that isn't getting reset with the update. You can remove it to your Desktop temporarily to see if it resolves the issue, as Quicken will always create a new preferences file upon launch if it doesn't find one present. But you might need to reset a few settings which are not specific to your data file. The preferences file I'm referring to lives in:

Macintosh HD/Users/[your user account]/Library/Preferences

and is the file called "com.quicken.Quicken.plist".

Alin

..A possible source of the issue is your Quicken preferences file, which may have a stuck setting that isn't getting reset with the update. 

That's interesting. I will try that if I encounter this problem again.

In the meantime, I did exactly what you suggested: I downloaded the installer, removed the existing Quicken.app, and reinstalled it. Now I'm good.

Thank you very much! I really appreciate all the advice.