Quicken Classic Mac - Business & Personal (Canada) Add CDN Currency to Invoicing

@James Tuttle I don't know why one of the moderators hasn't replied to your repeated requests for an update, but I believe it's generally because they do not have insight into the plans of the product development teams.

Beta testers are not allow to discuss beta testing in the public forum, but I think it does not violate those rules to let you know that when the Quicken Mac invoicing features were being beta tested last December, the question of (the absence of) support for Canadian currency was definitely raised by beta testers. We were told the development team was aware of the issue and that it is something they were or would be working on. As is the case with all development projects, no timeframe for implementation was given. I think the range of business features, especially invoicing, was such a major chunk of new code that they probably made a practical decision — although clearly unpopular with Canadian business users — to try to build out the functionality for US users first to get the product launched, and then come back around to complete functionality for other currencies (or at least Canada). I would hope that when they were doing that development, the design and coding included hooks for future multi-currency support so it is easier to add on. I suspect the developers are under pressure to round out functionality of Quicken Mac business features to better align with Quicken Windows.

The thing I most blame Quicken for is their marketing: they should have (and still should) identify that this is currently a US-only feature or tat it is currently US-only and Canadian support will come in the future. The web page for Classic Business & Personal also does not indicate that some Windows functionality, such as rental property management, is not included in the Mac version at this time. These are, at best, oversights by poorly managed marketer or executives, and at worst, deceptive.

That all said, to whatever extent the product management people use the votes in this forum to get some gauge on relative interest in features in order to help prioritize which projects tot tackle and which to leave for the future, the slow pace of votes for this Idea topic is not helping press the case. There are only 14 votes over the past 6 months. I believe if the topic reaches 20 votes, it is flagged for the development team. Posts here are helpful, but getting more votes is the way to lobby the developers to make this a priority. Roughly two votes per month does not yet create as compelling a case as you'd wish to make. So I'd encourage any Quicken Mac Canada users who want to see this functionality added to make sure you have added your vote near the top of the first page of this thread.

even easier - why even need to display a currency - just use the account setting for currency if need to.

@Darran_AUS I don't think it's that simple. What about someone who invoices customers in the US and Canada? What about someone who invoices in Canada but may sometimes receive payments/make deposits in a US bank account (or vice versa)? What if a Canadian business invoicing a Canadian customer has billable expenses in US currency? Since every other part of Quicken, from registers to reports to dashboards, are tied to individual currencies, I don't see how invoices could be just numbers without a currency.