Don't USA users have Foreign Payees, Distributor and Clients?

Grand-Pa

Version 8.2.0 (Build 802.57256.100) Starter Canada. MacOS 15.4.1

Address fields prevent to properly identify Payees, Distributors and Clients when they are located outside USA. For Canadian users it is awful as we cannot enter any addresses because of ZIP CODE requirement. It must also be a problem for USA users to not be able to properly identify every entity outside their own country.

Will this be corrected shortly and stay as is for ever?

Note: I have been a customer for over 10 yrs now and still looking for this correction.

Chris_QPW

Quicken was never designed as a "multiple country" application, with only marginal recognition that there are other countries in the world.

Even when the support was put in for Canadian decades ago, it was you are in the US or you are in Canada, not both. And that support of Canada is frankly "lipstick on the US version".

EDIT:

This this is in reference to the Mac version I should add a bit more history.

When Quicken Mac was rewritten and Quicken Mac Essentials came out that is when the first support for downloading from both US and Canadian financial institutions/quotes came in. And I suspect that they only reason that happened is because Intuit wasn't closely monitoring the very small Quicken Mac group that did it.

To this day you can't do that in Quicken Windows US or Quicken Windows Canadian (even though now it has been requested for many years).

And I will also mention that the "Canada" version on Quicken Mac is almost a joke. At least the lipstick on Quicken Windows Canadian goes deeper. In fact, it is the version that has the best multiple currency support out of all the Quicken products.

Grand-Pa

Even if "Quicken was never designed as a "multiple country" application", isn't there US users dealing with customers or payees not located in US? How do they identify them in the address fields? It would be so much simpler for every one to remove this restriction and therefore make the program simpler and lighter by taking away this loop in the program that refuses entries if ZIP code/State is/are wrong.

If this verification was not there, we could use address fields to write any address of the world.

Chris_QPW

Well, I don't use the business version so maybe in Quicken Windows business there are workarounds for this (but I have seen complaints about such things in the Windows categories of this forum).

Maybe others can speak to that, that know. I should also say that the release for the recent Quicken Mac business features where clearly only thought out for the US, but from what I have seen from the comments for things like the Zip code and just the currency sign and such, I would expect at least that part to be fixed in the near future. As that what I would consider lipstick.

But in the terms of target of "what kind of businesses". Quicken business features has been targeted almost entirely at what would be called a Schedule C business in the US. Where the business just owned by the Quicken user and maybe a spouse, and most likely the business taxes and the personal taxes are combined.

EDIT on a personal note for non-business payees. Basically, I have none it the truest state, and I believe that would be true for most Quicken users at least in the US. If I order something from China, I pay one a credit card or PayPal, they take care of the currency exchange and such. There isn't any "foreign address" to put into Quicken. I certainly wouldn't be writing a person check to a foreign company (they wouldn't take my checks), but even if I could do such a thing, it would be handled outside of Quicken and entered into Quicken manually (just the transaction).