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Intuit is not a Mac friendly company. They make an OS X version of Quicken, but it is artificially crippled in order to try to get banks to pay them money. Intuit will only let you import files from banks that pay extra to let their customers download transactions into Quicken for Mac. The fact that you paid for Quicken and the bank paid for a Quicken server isn’t enough.

They want the banks to pay another fee for their Mac users–even though there is no additional hardware or software involved. The end result is that Mac users get a product that will only work with a handful of banks.

This article discusses a method to get around this limitation. Me: Why can’t I import a QFX file into Quicken Mac.

Quicken: Because your bank doesn’t support Mac QFX files. Me: But they are both text files based on the OFX standard. Quicken: But banks decide which formats they want to support.

Me: Are you telling me that there is a difference between an QFX file for a Mac and one for a PC. Quicken: Yes they are different. Me: Why would people use OFX if it was limited to only one platform? Quicken: I don’t know. Me: Ok on a bank that supports the “Mac format” there is only one link to download. How can it be a different file? Quicken: I don’t know, but banks have to support the Mac format for Mac users.

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Me: I’m looking at a QFX file right now from a bank that supports Macs and one that doesn’t. The file format is identical. Quicken: No they are different. It was at this point that I realized I was not going to get anywhere with tech support. So I started trying to figure out what was causing the problem myself.

I don’t know what it is like to use their PC product, but from an OS X standpoint Quicken is Evil. It isn’t that their product is bad, it is that they follow absurd business practices that will make your life miserable if you are using something other than Windows. If you go to the Quicken site and look at their list of supported banks, it looks very good and reassuring.

Most major banks are listed, so it should be no problem to download and import transactions. The problem is in the fine print. Very few of the banks support “Quicken for Mac”. This seems odd because the OFX, QFX and QIF file formats are completely independent of the operating system. In fact that is the whole point of OFX–to have a platform independent way of representing financial data.

It should work on PalmOS, OS X, Windows, Linux, HPUX, anything. In older versions of Quicken and other money management software, you’d simply download a.QIF file and import it. QFX can work the same way, but it contains additional information about your account and bank.

Most banks have upgraded to using QFX (WebConnect) because it helps prevent repeat transactions so you don’t have to be as careful about selecting the exact dates for import. It turns out that when you try to import a QFX file, Quicken looks at the ID of the banking institution in the file and then goes to the Intuit web site and asks if it should allow you to import the file. Intuit’s site sees that the request is coming from a Mac and then checks to see if the bank with that ID is listed as supporting the Macs. If they don’t Intuit sends back a message telling Quicken to not allow the file to be imported. Banks have to pay Intuit extra money to say that they support Mac. Since the number of Mac users is smaller than PC users, many banks don’t pay the extra fee. In my opinion this amounts to artificially crippling their product for Mac users.

The files are identical for any type of computer.