Quicken for Mac Subscription 5.10.0 Released
Quicken Marcus
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In 5.10, we've added a number of new features. Probably the biggest feature is the ability to create a crosstab or matrix report. This is a summary report where the rows are things like category or payee but the columns can be tags, payees or accounts. This is great for reporting on spending for each investment property or individuals in your family or from each credit card. This allows you to take full advantage of being able to tag transactions. This has been a big request from a lot of our Quicken 2007 customers who have switched to the subscription product.
5.10 also adds a thin sidebar so you can maximize the amount of information you can see in your register. We've added a new arrow button at the top of the sidebar to shrink and grow the sidebar but you can also simply drag the right edge controlling the width.
For Canadian customers, we've also added a new print check style for Canadian pre-printed cheques.
Finally, there was a lot of discussion in the 5.9 release forum post about exporting to the QMTF format. We took it out of the 5.9 release because it's not something we want to spend a lot of time on and people were complaining that it didn't do investments and there were other issues. The consensus was that most preferred having the feature even with issues so we've added it back in 5.10.
There are also lots of stability improvements. Let us know if you run into any issues in this forum post. We'll be closely monitoring this post for the next week or so.
Below are the official release notes.
Version 5.10.0 (January)
5.10 has a number of new features and stability fixes.
New Features
UPDATES
1/30 - Shipped to all customers.
1/31 - We fixed a crash that would happen in some people's files where they had unnamed accounts. Shipped 5.10.1 to resolve this issue.
5.10 also adds a thin sidebar so you can maximize the amount of information you can see in your register. We've added a new arrow button at the top of the sidebar to shrink and grow the sidebar but you can also simply drag the right edge controlling the width.
For Canadian customers, we've also added a new print check style for Canadian pre-printed cheques.
Finally, there was a lot of discussion in the 5.9 release forum post about exporting to the QMTF format. We took it out of the 5.9 release because it's not something we want to spend a lot of time on and people were complaining that it didn't do investments and there were other issues. The consensus was that most preferred having the feature even with issues so we've added it back in 5.10.
There are also lots of stability improvements. Let us know if you run into any issues in this forum post. We'll be closely monitoring this post for the next week or so.
Below are the official release notes.
Version 5.10.0 (January)
5.10 has a number of new features and stability fixes.
New Features
- NEW 5.10 has a powerful new report capability where you can now create a crosstab or matrix report. Use New Report to create a Summary Report. Now in addition to Time you can choose Tags, Payees or Accounts for the columns. This report can be used, for example, for tracking expenses at multiple properties or across different accounts and can also be printed and exported.
- NEW We've added a new thin sidebar that will give you more space to work with. Drag and shrink the width of the sidebar or click on the arrow at the top to display the thin sidebar. Click on the dollar sign to switch to different accounts. Drag the sidebar bar wider or click on the arrow again to expand to the original width.
- NEW Added support for Canadian pre-printed cheques. Quicken now supports the Canadian cheque layout in the print check dialog.
- FIXED Added back the Export to Quicken Mac Transfer File (QMTF) format.
- FIXED Fixed an issue where loan payments were off by 1 cent. Also fixed an issue in the What if calculator if there was extra principal applied.
- FIXED Fixed an issue with matching downloaded transactions where a warning message would incorrectly appear regarding different values even when the values were the same.
- FIXED Changed the way the transaction matching warning works. Previously you could hide it. Now it will always appear.
- FIXED Continued improving Single Mutual Fund account and transaction quality. Fixed an issue when trying to undo a match.
- FIXED Fixed a crash that affected a handful of customers who had a missing account name. If you see an account named "Unnamed Account", please give it a name by going to Account Settings.
- FIXED Fixed an issue where adding a new account didn't update the thin sidebar account list.
UPDATES
1/30 - Shipped to all customers.
1/31 - We fixed a crash that would happen in some people's files where they had unnamed accounts. Shipped 5.10.1 to resolve this issue.
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please please change it back OR tell us how to change it. Use the system default font which is what i'm guessing is what the previous version was doing
hah...that's good to know, thank you for the answer.
I can't put my finger on it, something doesn't look right. i use the Tiny option for registry rows since i'm using a 27inch monitor with quicken in fullscreen and (visually) the font size seems just a tiny bit bigger than before. probably a function of San Francisco at whatever point size your guys are using for Tiny
this goes to show you once again how some quicken users (in this case me) get so used to things been in a certain way that the smallest change makes them cry foul instead of spending time to understand the change
Yeah, San Francisco definitely has different metrics from Helvetica Neue. I've been looking at it for a while during development, so I'm used to it now.
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Ignore my previous comment. I found my problem. I was clicking on the wrong column .
agree @jacobs, the numbers are looking a bit funny.
honestly, the best option would be to add the ability for users to configure the fonts and sizes
Just food for thought:
What is the difference between fixes and quality improvements? All of the Quality Improvements start with the word fixed.
In terms of New Features- hiding a side bar just seems like a quality improvement to me. It doesn't allow me to do anything new with the core of your product. A new report function also seems like a quality improvement. The ability to print checks in the Canadian format. Again, seems more like quality improvement rather than new feature, but I'll give you this one.
So far not impressed with the subscription process.
Here is the thread asking for such a feature for a very long time.
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7351929/add-ability-to-change-font-settings-size-font-color-etc-in-quicken-for-mac
It has 166 votes prior to moving to this forum. It is near the top 10 most requested feature for years (out of hundreds of requests). Notwithstanding the other high demand features, should it maybe treated as more than just a "perhaps" idea? Just a thought.
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(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
So, voting a feature up is a waste of time. Might make you and those voting up feel better, and Quicken might even look at it...but it has zero to do with what Quicken feels it's users want.
For example, the added nuisance reminder sidebar for expired subscriptions. Quicken basically told it's users "too bad". Thats just the way it is.
Same for other upvoted issues. Users are silently told "we'll get to it when we feel like it, if we feel like it".
The product manager has actively encouraged user voting and comments, and has said it helps them prioritize and understand issues. We’ve send them do things influenced by user votes.
I know there are still lots of things we users want them to do. I have my list of wishes, as do you, and they can’t do them all, at least not quickly. But that doesn’t mean they don’t listen, don’t care, and don’t look at user input.
Thank you Marcus. I appreciate the feedback. SOX and in general information security has certainly driven the up the cost of IT- so I guess we're all feeling it.
On a side note, I submitted a question to the Bank Accounts, Downloading, and Categorizing section within the Mac forum today regarding attachments. It's not an issue, but a best practices question which I could use some guidance from Quicken staff before I go down the path I am too far.
@Snoopy FC just to clarify, you are referring to the Help menu link to Quicken Community, right? I agree, this is broken. I can also confirm this problem exists with Quicken 2017 and Quicken 2016.
I don't know if this is something that needs to be patched in the program code, or if it is something than can be fixed with a URL redirect on the new site. I submitted a bug report about it on the beta testing site, in case it's an application problem; I'm calling it to the attention of @Quicken Kathryn here in case it's a website problem.
Yes. I'm referring to the link inside the Quicken desktop program.
Here is a screen shot of what it looks like before I click "Post Comment" (and then disappears).
"Here is the thread asking for such a feature for a very long time."
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7351929/add-ability-to-change-font-settings-size-font-color-etc-in-quicken-for-mac
I may be alone in finding the new forum format confusing and limited (others appear not to find it so). In any case, I followed jacobs' link and no longer see a way to vote, or any record of the votes this feature request has received. If this ability to vote has indeed been lost, I believe any discussion of whether the number of votes for a feature request will increase the likelihood of its been implemented is moot.
Also, all the old vote counts have apparently not transferred over BUT we are told that the counts have been preserved offline.
Not sure what good they will be if they are not reincorporated back into this site. Not sure what solution is being worked on, if any.
It may be a while but stay tuned...
- Where to find a Help Guide for Quicken for Mac?
- Quicken Mac FAQ list
- Quicken Windows FAQ list
- Help Guide and FAQs for Quicken Mobile
COMPLETE list of Product Ideas - Quicken for Mac to VOTE onObject to Quicken's business model, using up 25% of your screen? Add your vote here:
Quicken should eliminate the LARGE Ad space when a subscription expires
(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)