

The biggest issue is that in Q a category is used to classify a transaction or set up a transfer. Frankly, I expect QXF to be the only option available soon as Q tries to lock customers in by holding their data hostage.

These are entirely proprietary and cannot be opened by virtually anything except a legal copy of Quicken.
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It does its best to generate the full set accounts, categories, etc as specified by the file.Ī note here: the QIF layout has been well documented & understood for decades, but Q also provides "QXF" format files. In MD you create a new file then import the QIF. The resulting file can be opened in Notepad if you're nosy and contains lines representing the parts you chose to export (transactions, investments, categories, etc).

To transfer data, you use File/Export/QIF in Q. You purchase a license code (I found a discount on Amazon) and register with an option on the Help menu to completely unlock. You can download the current version of MD from the company's website for Windows, Mac, or Linux and try it out with very few restrictions. Moneydance (MD) was the closest replacement for Quicken (Q) I could find, so when I decided to leave Quicken (after over 25 years) due to the new "subscription" (and block 40% of the screen if you don't re-up) and bugginess I decided jump in and thought I'd share some experiences of our first weeks with MD:
