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I tried Igg's iBank. Ugh. Quicken has lived for years off its checkbook interface because that's a great interface. Some things (like the MacBook Pro case) are so close to perfect they should just be left alone. Though I do miss that 12" PowerBook G4; and, no, the Air just isn't the same. All we need in a MacBook / MacBook Pro upgrade is built in eSATA. Sure would be nice in the iMac, too. But back to Quicken . . .
I (formerly) was in charge of a (small as these things go) trust department in a national bank. We used Quicken to manage the trust department. I now manage a multi-million philanthropy on Quicken. Works great. Cheap. Takes some ingenuity to "trick" it into being a double entry accounting system, but possible.
Now here's the deal with QIF files. They're called Quicken Interchange Files. Intuit has killed them in the Windows versions. That's because Intuit realized it could force banks and brokers to pay Intuit for an interface allowing Quicken users access to their data. So Intuit set up intermediate servers and installed OFX (I think OFX is right but am not stopping to google it). When I tried it (once), I had to set up a link between my Quicken program, Intuit, and my broker. The broker data passed through Intuit's server, then down to me. When it arrived, of course, a lot of the useful detail I needed to make accounting sense of the large number of transations in that account was simply missing or garbled. I disconnected right then and now download the same data in csv files. I once wrote an Excel Macro to convert the csv files into a QIF file which would upload with correct detail right into Quicken, but finally decided to just leave the broker detail in Excel, use the Excel subtotal function, and manually enter into Quicken the summary data. Actually more accurate than the QIF macro output, which sometimes, but not often, went screwy.
QIF is really useful because we have offices in two locations. We create QIF files and use encrypted iChat to send them to the other office. Can't do that with Windows Quicken!
Intuit has plans to issue an entirely new Mac finance program. Probably will ruin the benefits of Quicken and the QIF interchange. So I don't suggest you count on being able to import/export data from Quicken to and from iBank or any other program. EXAMPLE: in Windoze it was possible to export QIF from Quicken and import it into Microsoft Money. But once the file was in Money, as I recall, not back to Quicken through QIF. And QuickBooks for Windows could import QIF files, but there's no export. So once into Quickbooks, into Quickbooks forever.
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