Microsoft Money Vs Quicken Vs Others

Swans1912

savingforoz wrote: »

Moneydance is excellent and can be used fine in the UK.

I take it Moneydance can only be used in the UK only via downloads, in other words a manual update?

savingforoz

Ref updates, each time you open up Moneydance it goes to the Internet and then advises whether your version is up to date, or whether there's a new one available. Updates are free, no plans for any sunset policy like that of Quicken.

You can download a trial version and enter up to 100 entries to try it out.

It deals with investments such as unit trusts whereas some others like Banktree can't, and I've customised it so I can do forward budgetting using the envelope zero based budget method, although it has standard budgetting as well.

I've not looked back since I ditched Quicken.

piglet39

Just for info apparently Moneydance has been repackaged by Tesco as their own financial software and is available for about £10 (from a large Tesco's presumably)

HTH

Piglet

Spreadsheet

Have you considered using a spreadsheet?

savingforoz

piglet39 wrote: »

Just for info apparently Moneydance has been repackaged by Tesco as their own financial software and is available for about £10 (from a large Tesco's presumably)

HTH

Piglet

I don't think updates are included with the Tesco version, so you're stuck with the version that you buy - for me, it was worth paying £10 more for Moneydance so I could get the updates and extensions, and access to the forum.

piglet39

Oh right I'll have to check - thought it said on the back of the pack that you could!

Piglet

savingforoz

You may be right, Piglet, it's just something I vaguely remembered from when I was weighing up which one to buy. I could well be wrong!

A free alternative is GnuCash, which is open source - not sure of the web address but a Google search will bring it up. I think MoneyEx is also free. They may be worth checking out.

TomJ

This is the stage where I generally mention JABP. Free, cross platform and developed from something I used years ago on my Psion. Not vastly user friendly in interface, but can import files downloaded from your internet banking acct. The reason I like it is it is a companion to [http://www.freepoc.org/viewapp.php?id=58]JABPLite[/url] which I run on my phone; you can enter transactions as you make them, then auto-reconcile against the downloaded statements from the bank.