Quicken Online is finally free

sidsavara · on Oct 14, 2008

Good news, but a lousy article, doesn't really add anything. Direct link to Quicken Online: http://quicken.intuit.com/online-banking-finances.jsp

It's in JSP! Ok, well at least that page is. As a java web developer, it warms my heart ;)

bootload · on Oct 14, 2008

"... Good news, but a lousy article, doesn't really add anything ..."

Better than the exciting offerings from 'Barron Ernst Quicken Online Product Manager' and his cheery marketing advice for using Quicken.

    With 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, 
    we want to help everyone make it to payday successfully

So which information source do you choose from?

The cheery marketing drivel from SoftCo or the cheesy articles that add a little bit of extra info but not much because the "cough" Journalist is lazy? The real bit that interested me was the article lists Quicken as free and the author compared a large company offering to some Startups (Mint, Geezeo, Buxfer, and Wesabe). Recognition from SoftCo. they have to respond?

The fact the url exposes its implementation says to me Quicken don't know or care about "Cool urls" ~ http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI nor understand this can be fixed using mod_rewrite ~ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html The fact they use Java confirms this.

mechanical_fish · on Oct 15, 2008

On the contrary, the article has handy links to all of Intuit's online competitors.

ph0rque · on Oct 15, 2008

This won me over as soon as confirmed the feature of being able to add upcoming and recurring transactions.

Kilimanjaro · on Oct 14, 2008

I love Quicken and I really really need web finances, but why on earth do they ask me for my banking username and password?

I just want to keep track of my finances without messing with my bank account, how hard is that?

bootload · on Oct 14, 2008

"... I love Quicken and I really really need web finances... but why on earth do they ask me for my banking username and password? ..."

It's free. Maybe the credit information is paying for the service? and room for a small profit.