Everyone benefits-not just the anal-retentive crowd-because this reduces the total number of payees, resulting in more-accurate reports. For example, if a store name in a downloaded transaction appears in all capital letters followed by a cryptic merchant code, such as “WILLIAMSSONOMA01002369,” you can manually change it to “Williams-Sonoma.” Quicken then applies that change to all past and future transactions from the same payee. Smart Payee, the flagship new feature, offers the ability to batch-rename payees. Meanwhile, many long-time annoyances remain. Mac backup, greater scheduling flexibility, and simplified downloading of multiple accounts. Intuit claims that Quicken for Mac 2006Ĭontains more than 50 improvements based upon user suggestions, but there are only four major new features-Smart Payee.
Just as Microsoft has resorted to adding extraneous functions to entice users to upgrade periodically, Intuit has also succumbed to releasing new versions that sometimes contribute more to feature bloat than to significantly enhancing users’ productivity. Microsoft Word is the undisputed king of text-editing apps on the Mac, and similarly, Quicken is virtually without competition when it comes to personal-finance software.
