Do I Need to Upgrade from Quicken 2017 for Manual Entry?

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This discussion was created from comments split from: Quicken Classic Mac 8.4 has been released!.

Norman_Cole

I have followed our accounts on Quicken 2017 4.8.6 on my Mac Book Air 2020 and Mac OS Sequoia 15.3.1 and have noted no problems. Quicken continues to advertise a new subscription service. Is an upgrade needed to continue to successfully run personal entry into banking accounts? I do not plan to receive direct entry digitally. I will appreciate your advice or a direct contact number.

jacobs

Do you need to upgrade to the current subscription Quicken Mac? No. At least not for the time being. Whether you want to or not depends on hw you use Quicken and what feature improvements may or may not be useful to you.

Quicken changed its pricing model to be subscription-based in 2017, so it's not actually a "new" subscription service. Quicken Mac has been expanded and improved in many, many ways over the past 8+ years since Quicken 2017. As someone who mostly enters transactions manually, I think it's markedly improved. But if you just use it to track a few bank accounts, not investments, loans, credit cards and other things, and the existing reports are good enough for you, then you might not find the many improvements compelling enough to justify upgrading to the latest version — which will require paying for the subscription each year going forward.

At some point, something in an Apple macOS upgrade is likely to render Quicken 2017 unable to run, but who knows when that might happen. Until then ,you can continue to run Quicken 2017 if you choose to do so.

If you decide to upgrade to the current version, Quicken will make a copy of your current Quicken 2017 data file and automatically update it into the current database format.