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One limitation to be aware of is that Moneydance has no equivalent to Quicken's 'Express Web Connect' it only supports 'Web Connect' and 'Direct Connect'. Confirming transactions after importing is a bit different from Quicken (particularly for transfers between accounts), but works well once you get used to it. But once set up, it works well and seems actually faster than Quicken.

It cost me another hour or so to set up automatic online import via Direct Connect, mostly because you have to do it for every account individually (12 accounts in my case), even if you have multiple accounts at a single bank. Luckily there are many free software options out there that works in various platforms and have the capabilities to become an alternative to Quicken.

(Update: Quicken does work in Windows and Mac, thanks to Mulder for rectifying my mistake). All in all it cost me a few hours of my weekend to get all the balances correct. I also have a foreign-currency checking account which created some headaches because the exchange rates in transfers weren't always correct. However, due to the limitations of the QIF format there is no way for Moneydance to detect transfers between accounts with 100% accuracy, so there were quite a few duplicate transactions where it hadn't 'guessed' right.įortunately I could eliminate many of them in bulk using the Find&Replace extension. Exporting a QIF from Quicken and importing it to Moneydance was easy enough. Just a follow-up on this: I decided to give Moneydance a serious try and migrate all my transactions over from Quicken.

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