Mac Budget tool not allowing "Client payment" to show up as business income

GKBgroup

Has there been an update on being able to add client payments to business income when creating a budget in the Mac version, as asked back in August 2025?

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7964670/received-invoice-payments-do-not-show-up-in-budget-actual-on-budget-screen-q-mac

Quicken Anja

Hello @GKBgroup,

Thank you for reaching out!

I checked internally on this, and at this time the behavior you’re seeing is considered working as designed, which is why the original bug ticket was closed.

That said, there is an active ticket for an enhancement request (QMAC-28834) with our development team to modify how this works—specifically to allow client payments to be included as business income in the budget. This means the request has been documented and is being considered, but there is currently no ETA for if or when that change may be implemented.

We understand how this would be useful for budgeting, and appreciate you bringing attention to it.

Thank you!

cjtussing

This has to be the strangest answer ever. It doesn't work yet it's "considered working as designed"? All income against invoices is put as Client Payment in Quicken. For that to not show up in Income in the Budget is foolish. I guess no business owners can use the Budget functionality….

Quicken Alyssa

@cjtussing,

Thank you for sharing your comments and concerns.

We are sorry that the current budget features have fallen short of your expectations and have not met all of your budgeting needs.

As stated previously, there is an open product enhancement ticket for this. That means it is currently in the works and will hopefully be added soon!

Thank you for the feedback!

[QMAC-28834]

jacobs

@cjtussing When they say "working as designed", that's all it means: it is doing what the designer specified when they set out to build a feature. No judgment is made about whether the design was good or complete. In this case, the design for the business functionality apparently did not include how business income should update the budget. So they can say that the software is "working as designed" and we can say the design was flawed in omitting this key functionality. Hopefully they'll get it right in the not-too-distant future.