Quicken is very specific, pointing out that their Cloud is not a backup (you will need to keep doing that yourself). The Cloud is not a backup of your data but where data transfer can transpire. To use these applications, you must use the Quicken Cloud. I then tried to set things up so I could use the iPad and iPhone apps, where things got interesting.

The new version installed just fine and didn’t seem to have any issues with my huge archive of transactions (it is massive). My suspicion is this means I will have to renew this yearly. I have not purchased anything, I have paid for a yearly subscription. I am concerned that this is a subscription (that is what my invoice shows). The delivery was only a download, so maybe free delivery is OK too. I suspect this is a mistake they will remedy (i.e. The exciting part of this was that the price quoted was $80.77 for Business and Home (the deluxe version), but after I purchased it, there was no delivery charge or taxes charged either.

I ended up buying Quicken 2017 Home & Business with Premium Support, using the discount message from Quicken 2016, which brings you to a purchase page. What does this mean for the Canadian Edition of the product? So far it suggests they are trying to make the Canadian product a more suitable product, but again, we shall see. HIG Capital owns the Quicken brand, but they are letting the Quicken team run things.

Intuit has stepped away from this product, so it is back to being a Quicken product. Quicken 2017 hopefully a better version than this one.

Quicken 2017 home and business reviews