I’m happy to report that the migration to the new portfolio system is complete.This new system applies to Quicken Windows 2006, 2007 and 2008.
If you want more information about this transition, or if you are experiencing any issues with the new portfolio, please post them in the thread here. This will keep all of the issues in one place, which means we can gather and fix them a lot sooner--
Thanks--
Quicken Kathryn
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Posting the problem on Amazon, etc does not help!!! It only serves to decrease confidence in people who might purchase Quicken products in the future.
The above sentiment is true but I would also say that as people on this earth together we have a responsibility to help our fellow man. We don't do that by spewing non-constructive venomous hate mongering for a product but posting constructive FYI's should not be considered a bad thing.
Letting others know that it is a great product but that it is currently having some technical issues isn't irresponsible or venomous. Rather, it is helping your fellow man make a fair, educated decision before plunking down a decent amount of change on software that may very well turn him off so bad that he refuses to EVER buy the product again. That is how you hurt sales in the long-term.
On the other hand, if this person sees reviews that state what a great program it has been for X amount of years that you or I have owned it but they are having some issues with a recent upgrade/patch, etc, then they might say, OK, well, let me wait a few months until they work the bug out and then buy. At which time, one would assume, he is then purchasing a better product and becoming a longterm quicken user like me (user since 2000) or you.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 07:52 am
This post is about: Quicken Deluxe 2008
Hi Dale,
Reference msg's 303 & 313
I posted a reply to your questions yesterday. It says fred111 replied to it. His reply is an error as has nothing to do with my issue. I just wanted to make sure you did not overlook my post thinking someone else had solved the problem.
As of right now I am still getting the error msg when trying to log in online to my portfolio (screenshot attached)
With One Step Update, it still says the database is read only.
I am using Quicken 2008 Deluxe and have not changed my portfolio user id or password since initially set up probably 5 or more years ago.
Update on New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 07:54 am
This post is about: Quicken Home & Business 2008
The problem is that they pushed out 2009 without a complete beta to a number of people who have portfolios. I volunteered and was never asked. So, fine, but the rush to get it out was meaningless since MS announced there were no longer issuing annual updates and there would be none this year. So, there was no race to get the product out. If you are late fixing the quality of the product so be it. But something went wrong. Even on the 2008, mileage data changed on 1 Jul and update was promised by mid August and when I upgraded to 2009 in late August, still no mileage data update. So what has been going on. If you are going to change methodologies thoroughly test it before selling to the public at quite high prices for upgrades. $10 off for a user who has been using the system for 15 years. Not much. Now we have a severe problem with a promise by mid Oct. But since I saw the promise for mileage updates for mid August fail, I have not faith in mid October for Stock issues fix. Now my decision is up in the air, I probably have two choices.
1. Go back to 2008 and that might not solve this stock issue at all.
2. Finally after all these years find another financial management software I can trust.
3. Sit here and wait and have to tons of work each day to follow the market because I don't trust the numbers I get.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 08:56 am
This post is about: Quicken Deluxe 2006
WHO is running the show at Intuit? Quotes are not coming in with Quicken and Historical prices are not updating at all, I get yesterdays prices for today, when that was working yesterday and I could at least see my gains and losses. If you click on a stock in Quicken Portfolio and choose quote all you get it the Intuit symbol stock quote.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 08:57 am
This post is about: Quicken Premier 2006
Portfolio Analysis: Performance This page is not showing my portfolio at all. WHY? Hopefully some of these questions will be answered soon. After using Quicken for 15+ years I don't want to change to another product but I am running out of patience.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 09:46 am
This post is about: Quicken Deluxe 2008
When running one step update I get error saying Quicken database is read only - try again later.
Additionally current portfolio has inaccurate numbers. Is there a time frame for a fix?
In any case backup before downloading quotes until you are confident their system have stabilized.
Bill_G:
I would make one change to your very good advice, to wit,
6. Backup your qph file every day before downloading quotes or historical prices, because you never know when Intuit will "upgrade" your program or the Quicken servers and mess up everything again. It is much easier to restore a good backup than to rebuild a qph file with bad data.
Bill_G: I would make one change to your very good advice, to wit, 6. Backup your qph file every day before downloading quotes or historical prices, because you never know when Intuit will "upgrade" your program or the Quicken servers and mess up everything again. It is much easier to restore a good backup than to rebuild a qph file with bad data.
This is excellent advice. I just finished corecting my prices manually from August 20 until today from various sources. It took about 5 hours out of my busy day.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 11:10 am
3 issues.
1 I can't update my portfolio on quicken.
2. I can't see my entire portfolio on quicken at one time.
3. Why not reload the old quicken until the new beta is truly debugged? I was happy with the "old" version
The Customer Support on the "new and improved" quicken online is horrible. Seems the strategy is to keep the users the dark and not address the issues up front. I attemped to use the chat feature today and found that the technican attempted to gloss over the problem and after 45 minutes just said he was sorry for my in convenience. Give me a break!!!
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 11:39 am
This post is about: Quicken Home & Business 2008
But Kathryn, you haven't even answered the question for 2009 which you have put up for sale. This community response doesn't even given you that option. What is the projection for the 2009 you are selling?
On September 2nd Ben Weiss, Quicken Product Manager said:
"First of all, I want to thank everyone in the Quicken community who has been pointing out issues with the new Quicken.com Investing Portfolio and quotes. We sincerely regret the problems that our customers have faced, and we are doing everything we can to address those issues as quickly as possible. This message is to provide an update on the status of those initiatives. Quotes
Many users have reported problems with specific historic quotes. We have some good leads, and we are optimistic that we should have a fix in the next 1-2 days. We consider this our #1 priority. Regards, Ben Weiss
Quicken Product Manager" First of all let's get this correct. We are ALL having a problem with quote updates for ALL quotes for stocks and mutual funds and not just for historical quotes. It is random as to which ones are wrong but the problem is not for "specific historic quotes". Even the day the quotes are shown for are wrong. Knievel even said that there are quotes for showing up for Monday when the market was closed for Labor Day. My quotes for last week were off by a day - Friday's numbers show as Saturday, Thursday's numbers show for Friday etc. I was a Product Manager for 15 years and I did not have line authority over the engineering staff. When I had serious product problems it was necessary to get senior management involved to get all organizations engaged in solving the problem. I want to know if this has been escalated to senior management, how many people are working on the problem, did people work over the Labor Day weekend, can, when will the problem be solved, and we go back to the old system until the problem is solved? I get the sense from the few posts that we see from Intuit employees that this problem is not being taken as seriously as it should be. This problem could have serious consequences to Intuit sales and stock prices. Because of the impact that this problem is having on our ability to manage our investments regarding buy and sell decisions we are losing money and this could reach the point of the members of this forum getting together in a class action suit! As you can tell from the posts on this forum people are getting angry and Intuit had better get their act together.
aprest:
This is a rant from a long time Quicken user. It's addressed to you, "aprest" because you are the last post in the thread, but it's an open letter (rant) to all the rest of you indignant and officially unhappy campers.
"Because of the impact that this problem is having on our ability to manage our investments regarding buy and sell decisions we are losing money and this could reach the point of the members of this forum getting together in a class action suit!"
First of all grab your End User License Agreement and read it. Your chances for a law suit are none and none leaning heavily to the side of none.
Second, if you use Quicken to manage your investments for anything other than occasional after-the-fact analysis and for a more complete look at your Net Worth, you are ________ (comment withheld by iiimaf so that Kathryn doesn't have to edit his post).
If you actually want to manage your investments, here's a suggestion. Go to your brokerage website where you will get "real-time" quotes and a lot more current stock and market information. Unless you have a really special version of Quicken you will need to go their to place buy/sell orders anyway, so why use Quicken?
The current situation with downloading quotes is affecting ALL OF US and yes, it's a pain in the butt.
Do you think a few hundred or even a few thousand complaints like yours is going to speed up the solution? Do you really think Quicken isn't doing everything humanly possible to fix this situation? Finally, do you want a quick fix or do you want them to fix it?
My suggestion to you and the rest of the "me-to" crowd is to deal with it and move on to something else.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 12:57 pm
This post is about: Quicken Premier 2008
How about fixing 2009. I had to revert to 2008 because 2009 was such a disaster in the investment module. Hey --- Quality control is what it is all about. Intuit/Quicken used to have it, but not for 2009.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 02:00 pm
This post is about: Quicken Home & Business 2008
I noticed two positive movements in the right direction. This afternoon the Today's change column actually reflected the total at the bottom and not some totally off the wall number.
I also noticed that the Portfolio movers column looks refreshingly normal. I no longer has a money market fund with about $2,000,000 more than I actually have in that fund listed.
Can we only hope?
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 02:20 pm
This post is about: Quicken Home & Business 2008
Version 2009 correctly downloaded quotes and calculated the days' decreases :-( correctly today. So for now it is a watch to see it holds as it is today.
To the ranting poster, who suggested a law suit, all I ever asked was how did it get out of beta this way? That issue is important for sales. That's all.
I depend on the product and it does a good job, so I expect it to continue to do a good job. I think that's fair enough.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 02:30 pm
Current quotes and historical quotes downloaded successfully and correct today for both versions Quicken 2008 AND Quicken 2009.
As to this getting out of beta...this has nothing to do with Quicken's software. It is a problem with Quicken's quote servers relaying bad historical quotes to the Quicken software. The quotes issue was apparent among ALL Quicken versions...it was not just a Quicken 2009 issue.
I beta tested Q2009....no problems downloading quotes and historic prices on that end throughout the beta process.
Changing the quicken.com webiste seems to have been the culprit for the broken quotes issue. Obviously, all the complaining and threatening lit a fire under the Quicken support staff to get a fix ASAP...which, as of today, they seem to have completed.
New Quicken.com Investing and Quotes Download Sep 04, 2008 02:37 pm
to PeteKI
What is "it"?
"It" has nothing to do with Quicken 2009. As gmailist correctly says its is a problem with the switch to a new way of providing quotes to all versions of Quicken since 2006!
Was there ever a BETA of the new quote system or was it a flash cut?
Ok, so how did the other problems get through? - Not capturing prices from the Portfolio download from brokers when there is no other quote. - Failure to match transaction in banking using the old rules, or disclosing the new rules - Program shutdown problem (atleast on Vista) - Portfolio on Desktop, right click on security name then Quicken.com - Quote. This always goes to quote for INTU.
None of those problems were apparent in any of the beta versions I tested for Quicken 2009, until the final RC1 version was released.
That RC1 version was released ONE DAY prior to the actual release of Quicken 2009. In that version, I discovered that downloaded transactions were not matching properly. Up until that release, all other beta versions had no problems matching transactions with previously entered transactions in the register.
What was maddening, is that the RC1 version was released one day prior to the actual release...and that the beta forum used to report bugs was then closed the following day. Beta testers had no recourse to report any bugs in that version.
Personally, I don't understand the rationale behind releasing the "release candidate 1" version without a complete beta test by all the beta testers. I'm sure some testers didn't even get a chance to download the last RC1 version before the beta forum even closed. Thus, any bugs discovered were unable to be reported.
And the next question begs---why CHANGE something that wasn't even broken to start with? Who messed around with the matching process anyways, and why? And why would you do it so late in the beta test period?
As to your other issues, I don't use Vista, I don't have the program shutdown problem (using Win XP SP3), and I reported the quicken.com problems as soon as they became apparent.
All the online links to quicken.com in both Quicken 2008 and Quicken 2009 seem to be broken. As you mention, all I get is the INTU quote page, regardless of which ONLINE RESEARCH I click on pertaining to a particular security.
In Quicken 2008, I don't even get that far. I only get the Quicken support page and can't access quicken.com through the Quicken browser. It just loops back to Quicken Support.
This wasn't an issue in the beta test period, since the old quicken.com page was still active and seemed to function just fine. This is a product of the quicken.com site page changeover...not a software issue.
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