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Quicken for Mac v6.0 Released
Quicken Marcus
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Today we're starting to roll out v6.0 which is a Universal app meaning it takes full advantage of the power and speed of new Apple Silicon M1 Macs. We're also introducing a new re-designed window that is inspired by macOS Big Sur with a full-height sidebar, no title bar, and a cleaner more refined look for the top of the screen where you access home, reports, and the other key views of Quicken. We've also replaced our icons and adopted Apple standards to provide a consistent and familiar experience to hopefully make using Quicken easier. As part of this redesign, we've changed the color of the Today line to green making it easier to see at all times, and we've added a new "Q" button in the upper right corner that provides a lot of the same functionality as the old title bar. We realize that change can be hard but we hope that because things haven't been moved, the impact to your workflow will be minimal.
Some other small tweaks in this release are drill-down on net worth reports to see the transactions that make up your amounts, and Quick Pay and Check pay enhancements to help you better monitor your quota and to streamline the payment process. This is also the first release that requires macOS 10.13 and above.
Let us know if you run into new issues in the comments. We'll be monitoring this post for any problems with 6.0 so we can react faster.
UPDATE
Some other small tweaks in this release are drill-down on net worth reports to see the transactions that make up your amounts, and Quick Pay and Check pay enhancements to help you better monitor your quota and to streamline the payment process. This is also the first release that requires macOS 10.13 and above.
Let us know if you run into new issues in the comments. We'll be monitoring this post for any problems with 6.0 so we can react faster.
UPDATE
- 11/17 - Initial rollout of 6.0. Only some people will be automatically notified. If you'd like to upgrade to the release without waiting, just go to Check for Updates under the Quicken menu to force the update.
- 11/20 - Released 6.0.1 to all customers.
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https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7883540/cant-connect-to-wells-fargo-asset-management-account/p1?new=1
> Still no dark mode support?
This! Came here to say the exact same thing. I realize it's a difficult proposition but a new universal app that supports Apple Silicone but no Dark Mode supports is just crazy. Quicken is the ONLY app I use that still doesn't have it. This is not some little feature we're clamoring for. We want it because our eyes and screen fatigue benefit from Dark Mode. When can we expect this, Quicken????
I can't find a way to message you directly. I just tried again and "Direct Connect" is the only option. Quicken Connect is grayed out. The bank selected is "Wells Fargo Asset Management" which is the correct bank. Here is the screenshot of the error. (I X'd out my real Login ID for this image.)
As I stated above, this worked Monday, updated to version 6 yesterday and now it doesn't connect.
cracof Member ✭ 4:14PM in Errors and Troubleshooting (Mac)
November 19, 2020
When I "reinvest dividend" of a stock I can add the dividend amount and number of shares..HOWEVER the price per share box remains gray (unlike previous versions) and when I save.. the investment Amt box remains empty. By not calculating the 'price per share' the basis of that stock will not be reflected accurately.
Furthermore, when I have gone back to the transaction to try again and correct it the dividend amount I had entered is gone but the number of shares remains correct. I notified Customer Service and was told I would have to wait until the next version update. WHAT!!? Any ideas on how to get this to function accurately...and is this the correct forum to announce this problem?
Thanks
[EDIT: This bug has been fixed in the 6.0.1 release on 11/20/20.]
It allows me to enter the Dividend Amount and Number of Shares, but it does not calculate a Price per Share:
If I record this transaction, in the register it looks like this…
…showing no cost per share and no Invest Amt.
By comparison, here's a Reinvest Dividend transaction in the same account for the same security entered previously in 5.18, showing the calculated cost per share and the amount of the dividend which was reinvested.
I'm curious, when and how do you send out these surveys for features? I've never been notified of a survey like this and would like to be able to give my input.
Thanks
In its current form, the budget-versus-actual report is useless to people 352 days a year, and only accurate on the last day of each month. (For instance, on October 31, the budget-versus-actual report will compare the year-do-date actual income and expenses from January 1 through October 31 to the budget from January through October. But on November 1, the report will compare actual spending from January 1 through November 1 to the budget for January through November -- 10 mons actual versus 11 months of budget.)
What users have been clamoring for is the ability to set their own date range for the budget report -- year-to-date through October, or perhaps 3rd quarter June through September. There are many comments on this forum that deride Quicken Mac because of the lack of a usable budget report, and many people who are frustrated that they need to continue using Quicken Windows for this one feature. Is this this functionality on the roadmap? Thanks.
I'm a beta tester, but I don't know if that group, which tends to be Quicken power users, represents a good cross-section of the Quicken Mac user base. So I'd question whether that's the best way to measure the opinion of Quicken Mac users in general, but it seems to be where they derive some of their prioritization feedback.
I agree. I used to be a beta tester but I'm a moderate user and y'all tended to really dig down into the nuts and bolts. I finally realized my "contributions" weren't necessary so I stopped.
We also do surveys that are presented to all customers in the form of a pop-up message that appears after quitting Quicken. This is usually only available for a day and as you might guess our most active users answer this survey. We take it down once we hit a certain number of replies. This survey tends to be biased toward retired customers who typically make up almost half of the respondents.
Finally, we do email surveys to customers to try to reach the broadest set of people. Sometimes we'll target customers who stopped using Quicken to find out why they left so we can hopefully address the issues and win them back or at least not lose other customers who have the same issues or concerns.
In terms of prioritization, we look at the results of all these surveys and combine that with the rankings that appear in the forums, letters to the president, care input, "report a problem" feedback, and general customer interactions to decide what we work on next.
Another key factor is timing. We like to focus on specific areas of the product to maximize our development effort. If we have developers jump around from feature to feature, there's a lot of relearning that has to happen which isn't as efficient. For example, we've been focused on adding loan payments to budgets for the past few months but to get there we first added the ability to select specific accounts, and then we added transfers. Each of these were steps to help us reach our ultimate goal which is the ability to budget a detailed loan payment.
I would definitely sign-up for beta. There's no cost, you can run the beta app along with your real, production Quicken app, side-by-side, and when there's a new release you can dive in and take a look without impacting your actual Quicken file. If you have time, you can answer the surveys and write up bugs but it's not required. Beta customers have a lot of sway and input since they have a direct link with the development team and of course, they represent our hardcore users who have been with us for many years and we consider them as part of the Quicken family.
Let us know if that worked or didn't work.