Intuit on Friday announce a smattering of substantial new characteristic come to Quicken Essentials , its Mac - aboriginal financial software system that replaced Quicken 2007 for Mac . To demonstrate its commitment to the Mac political platform and listening to client feedback , Intuit also denote a newfangled , low-down price for Quicken Essentials — and a refund for everyone who purchased at the old Mary Leontyne Price .
By the final stage of April , Quicken Essentials for Mac will gain the option to protect imported files with a word and the ability to export transaction data to spreadsheets for issue crunching in other applications .
Throughout the rest of 2010 , Intuit also detail other new features on their way , such as the ability to : accept investment holdings data from brokerage that do not provide downloadable information for Quicken , equate spending between unlike time flow , export taxation - deductible expenses to tax filing applications programme like TurboTax , and track budget across several calendar month . These update , and others still under wrapper , will all be provided free to Quicken Essentials for Mac owners .
To wrap up Friday ’s announcement with a grin , Intuit says it listened to customer feedback and dropped the Mary Leontyne Price on Quicken Essentials for Mac from $ 70 to $ 50 . The fresh monetary value is already resilient on the company ’s Web site , and all customers who purchased a copy at the gamey price before April 19 ( the twenty-four hours the price really spend ) are entitle to a repayment for the departure . Just visitthis Intuit support documentfor details on how to get the refund .
