Understanding Quicken Classic for Mac
Getting started
Learning about categories and tags
Adding categories or tags
Delete categories and tags
Assign categories and tags to uncategorized transactions
Edit categories and tags
Merge Categories
More Quicken Information
Learning about the Quicken window
Resizing the Sidebar
The Quicken sidebar
Navigating the Quicken Home Dashboard
Open sidebar accounts or groups in new windows
Organizing the Sidebar
Learning about registers
Entering transactions
Editing transactions
Deleting transactions
Finding transactions
Exporting register transactions to a CSV (spreadsheet) file
Adding renaming rules
List of Register Columns
Status icons in your Quicken account register
Add an attachment to a transaction
Split transactions
Setting auto-adjust for eBill splits
Transferring money between accounts
Adding QuickFill rules
Using registers
Understanding the Account View
Settings
Connected Services settings
Messages & Offers settings
Mobile, Web, & Alerts settings
Register settings
Sidebar settings
Security settings
Budgets settings
General settings
Backup settings
Learning about accounts
Configure account settings
Hidden accounts after update
Editing accounts
Deleting an account
Hide, separate, close or delete accounts
Adding a Lending Loan account
Downloading transactions
Why do I need to enter multi-factor authentication every time I update?
Setting up accounts
Setting up an offline account
Keyboard Shortcuts
Learning Center
Bills & Income - Mac
Bills & Income Overview
Bill Payment
Adding online bill pay transactions
Learn about Quick Pay
Make a Quick Pay payment
Add or Edit Quick Pay Payment Account
Quick Pay Payment Status
Track Quick Pay payment
Learn about Check Pay
Make a Check Pay payment
Add or Edit Check Pay Payment Account
Track Check Pay payment
Learn about Bank Bill Pay
Set up Bank Bill Pay
Setting your payment alert settings
Income view
Projected balances
New bills
Payees
Managing payees
Add new Online Payees
Update existing Online Payees
How Quicken suggests payee names for downloaded transactions
Activity
Bill history
Edit an existing scheduled transaction in the register
Bill Reminders
Create new scheduled transactions
Match your transactions
Budgets / Planning - Mac
About Quicken budgets
Budget view
Budget view graphs and settings
Create a budget
Create more than one budget
Editing your budget
Adding or removing categories or accounts from your budget
Duplicate a budget
Delete a budget
Rename a budget
Export or copy a budget
Calendar
Your financial calendar
Create your custom calendar
View and edit your Calendar transactions
View daily investment changes
Customize your calendar view
Examples of customizing your calendar
View your current and scheduled transactions
View your daily and projected cash balances
Taxes - Mac
Learning about taxes
Exporting data to tax software
Assign tax line items to categories
Reports - Mac
Create and Customize Reports
Export or copy a report
Deleting reports
Saving Reports
Working with the Tax Schedule report
Learning about reports
Accessing Reports in Quicken for Mac
Examining report details
Banking / Spending - Mac
Learning about cash accounts
Setting up cash accounts
Entering cash transactions
Learning about credit cards
Entering credit card transactions
Learning about asset or liability accounts
Setting up asset and liability accounts
Entering asset or liability transactions
Learning about checks
Managing Quicken Files - Mac
Learning about data files
Deleting data files
Renaming data files
Backing up data files
Opening data files
Changing or removing a data file password
Adding a data file password
Choosing between one or multiple data files
Converting your data
Things to do before converting your data
After you have converted your data
If your balance is incorrect
Set up transaction download
What data gets carried over
Banktivity import issues
Moneydance import issues
Transfer your Quicken data to a new Mac
Account Information, Updating & Upgrading - Mac
Quicken ID
Your Quicken ID
Change the password for your Quicken ID
Change your Quicken ID and the associated email address
Multi-factor authentication or “Secure Login”
Quicken ID, data file, and Mobile and Web Sync
Quicken ID FAQs
Where to download your copy of Quicken
Upgrade your Quicken software
How to extend, upgrade, or downgrade, your Quicken membership
What to do if you lose the activation code
How to cancel membership auto-renewal
How to cancel your Quicken membership
Where to find your membership expiration date
Mobile, Web, Sync, and Alerts - Mac
Set Up Alerts
Access Quicken Mobile or Web
Mobile & Web settings
Prerequisites to Using Quicken Mobile or Web
Reset Connected Services
Troubleshooting Quicken Mobile, Web Sync, and Alerts
Sync your accounts to Mobile & Web
Printing - Mac
Printing Budgets
Printing reports
Writing and printing checks
Investing - Mac
About Simple Tracking
About the Security Detail View
Adding expenses
Adding interest income
Adding long-term capital gain
Adding miscellaneous expenses
Adding miscellaneous income
Adding Payment/Deposit
Adding return of capital
Adding shares
Adding short-term capital gain
Adding stock dividend
Adding transactions to resolve out-of-balance securities
Buying bonds
Buying securities
Buying to cover
Creating investment reports
Creating securities
Deleting securities
Importing securities
Investing portfolio tab
Learning about investing in Quicken
Learning about the transactions view
Merging securities
Paying margin interest
Portfolio time machine (as of date)
Reinvesting long-term capital gain
Reinvesting short-term capital gain
Removing Shares
Resolving missing cost basis (placeholders)
Selling securities
Setting up investment accounts
To record a dividend reinvestment
To record an interest reinvestment
Updating share prices
Viewing security quotes and market value graphs using Security Detail
Viewing your holdings
About the Capital Gains Estimator
Adding a short sell
Adding a stock split
Adding dividend income
Adding income
Record reinvested income
About the Securities window
Property & Debt - Mac
Manage your loans
FAQs for managing loans
Converting a loan
Dashboard screens
Learning about the loan feature
Loan settings
Adding a loan
Tracking the value of your real estate
Adding loan terms
Deleting a loan
Reconcile an account - Mac
Troubleshooting and adjusting account
Using auto-reconcile
Editing the opening balance
Using reconcile
Using Reconciliation History to fix a previous reconciliation
Online Backup
Mac Release Notes
2025 Release Notes
Version 8.4 (December 2025)
Version 8.3 (September 2025)
Version 8.2 (April-May 2025)
Version 8.1.2 (April 2025)
Version 8.1.1 (April 2025)
Version 8.1 (March 2025)
Version 8.0 (January 2025)
2024 Release Notes
Version 7.10 (October-November 2024)
Version 7.9 (August 2024)
Version 7.8 (June-July 2024)
Version 7.7 & 7.7.1 (4_2024 & 5_2024)
Version 7.6 & 7.6.1 (3_2024)
Version 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2 (1_2024)
2023 Release Notes
Version 7.4, 7.4.1, & 7.4.2 (11_2023 & 12_2023)
Version 7.3, 7.3.1, & 7.3.2 (9_2023 & 10_2023)
Version 7.2 , 7.2.1, 7.2.2, & 7.2.3 (7_2023, 8_2023, & 9_2023)
Version 7.1, 7.1.1, & 7.1.2 (5_2023, 6_2023, & 7_2023)
Version 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, & 7.0.4 (4_2023 & 5_2023)
Version 6.12, 6.12.1, 6.12.2, 6.12.3, 6.12.4, & 6.12.5 (2_2023 & 3_2023)
Version 6.11, 6.11.1, 6.11.2, & 6.11.3 (12_2022 & 1_2023)
2022 Release Notes
Version 6.10, 6.10.1, 6.10.2, & 6.10.3 (10_2022 & 11_2022)
Version 6.9 (8_2022)
Version 6.8, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, & 6.8.3 (6_2022 & 7_2022)
Version 6.7 & 6.7.1 (4_2022 & 5_2022)
Version 6.6, 6.6.1, & 6.6.2 (2_2022 & 3_2022)
2021 Release Notes
Version 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, & 6.5.3 (12_2021-1_2022)
Version 6.4, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, & 6.4.5 (9_2021-12_2021)
Version 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2 & 6.3.3 (7_2021, 8_2021, & 9_2021)
Version 6.2.0, 6.2.1 & 6.2.2 (5_2021 & 6_2021)
Version 6.1.0 & 6.1.1 (1_2021 & 2_2021)
2020 Release Notes
Version 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, & 6.0.3 (11_2020 & 12_2020)
Version 5.18, 5.18.1, & 5.18.2 (9_2020)
Version 5.17, 5.17.1, 5.17.2, 5.17.3, 5.17.4, 5.17.5, & 5.17.6 (7_2020, 8_2020, & 9_2020)
Version 5.16 & 5.16.1 (5_2020)
Version 5.15, 5.15.1, 5.15.2, & 5.15.3 (2_2020 & 3_2020)
Version 5.14.0, 5.14.1, 5.14.2, & 5.14.3 (1_2020)
Earlier Release Notes
Version 5.13.0, 5.13.1, 5.13.2, & 5.13.3 (10_2019 & 11_2019)
Version 5.12.0, 5.12.1, 5.12.2, 5.12.3, 5.12.4, & 5.12.5 (8_2019 & 9_2019)
Version 5.11, 5.11.1, & 5.11.2 (3_2019 & 7_2019)
Version 5.10 & 5.10.1(1_2019)
Version 5.9.0, 5.9.1, & 5.9.2 (12_2018)
Version 5.8, 5.8.1, & 5.8.2 (9_2018 & 10_2018)
Version 5.7.0, 5.7.1 & 5.7.2 (7_2018)
Version 5.6.4 & 5.6.5 (7_2018)
Important Investments Update in Version 5.6 and 5.6.1
Version 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, & 5.6.3 (5_2018)
Version 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, & 5.5.7 (2_2018, 3_2018, & 4_2018)
Version 5.4.4 (12_2017)
Version 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, & 5.4.3 (12_2017)
Version 5.3.0, 5.3.1, & 5.3.2 (11_2017)
Version 5.2.2 (11_2017)
Version 5.2.1
Version 5.2.0
Version 5.1.1 (Pre-Release)
Version 5.0.0 & 5.1.0 (Pre-Release)
Recently updated Quicken Classic for Mac topics
Business & Personal
Who is Quicken for Mac Business & Personal for?
Setting up your first business
Migrating to Business & Personal
Understanding the default business
Primary Use: Business vs. Personal
Navigating categories in Quicken for Mac Business & Personal
Switching business data from Windows to Mac
Creating additional businesses
Creating new business subcategories
Invoicing
Creating Invoices
Recording a payment on an invoice
Adding a business logo
Track and Invoice Clients for Billable Expenses
Issuing refunds
Using the Undeposited Funds account
Understanding sales tax accounts
Exporting Invoices
Accepting payments with Stripe
Managing clients from the Clients tab
Overview of Business Reports in Quicken
Business and Tax Reports
Business Dashboard
Getting started with business tracking
Business Reports
Income & Expense
Quarterly Estimated Tax Payment Due Dates
Upcoming Bills & Income
Using the client detail view
Business Mileage Tracking
Invoices Card Overview
Using the Mileage tab
Adding a new mileage entry
How to edit a mileage entry