Apple Card and Quicken

I just want to chime in. I know it is part of the Apple culture to try and invent completely new ways of doing things we already do, but in this case they are way off the mark not supporting some way of exporting the data. Many of us not only do all our own bookkeeping using software like Quicken, but I've also used Turbotax to do my own returns for over 10 years. No way on earth I'm going to get a card which requires me to manually enter transactions into accounting software. Until then, forgetaboutit.

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I agree. Signed on for the card, but having trouble getting it onto my watch. But without a Quicken connection, I would never use it for anything but for small cash transactions, which actually I can do just as well with Apple Pay. At least there i can get a report of my transactions sent to me.

I sent an email to Mr Cook concerning this yesterday, and got the following response back from Eddy Cue: "Thanks for your feedback. We are looking at supporting exporting, but we don’t have a date yet."

I have no interest in a credit card that I cannot automatically download into quicken so that I can keep track of my family's spending. Really surprising that Apple left this out with all the thought they put into other features of the Apple Card. I expect Apple will eventually provide this capability, but I can wait until it does.

I totally agree with you. I signed up for Apple card and love the way it works but not being able to connect with Quicken will be a big obstacle for me. All my transactions download automatically to Quicken and I am not sure I am willing to add them in manually even thought they are so beautifully displayed on my phone. I hope Apple will relook at this critical function.

I love the way the latest Quicken works and I can easily monitor my transactions. It feels like the Apple Card is for people who have-not figured out how good Quicken is. Until they get this done, I just won't use the card. I am not about to start entering transactions in Quicken Manually. It is bad enough with Apple Pay.

I'm disappointed in Apple. I have bank, brokerage, retirement, credit, and business accounts that are all managed in Quicken. The Apple Card is a small and insignificant factor in my finances. Without creating a direct connect capability to download my transactions and allow the me to manage my finances outside the "Financial Silo of Excellence" I will be apprehensive to use the Apple Card. How will I be able to track my spending against other accounts? How can I generate cash flow reports to ensure I have enough money in my checking to pay all of my bills? This lack of functionality will result in me not using the Apple Card because i'll have no way to manage ALL of my finances.

Not being able to download transactions into Quicken is a dealbreaker for me. Stupid Apple.. I guess they are only going for the very young “instant purchase without thinking of the ramifications” demographic.

I never post on sites, but this one I can't ignore.

If I'm understanding correctly, this thread says that Apple Card purchases have to be manually entered into Quicken / QuickBooks?

If so, this is preposterous and a deal killer for me....or, I would imagine, any other bloke that has better things to do with his time.

After three frustrating hours getting bounced between Apple and Goldman Sachs reps, trying to get my Goldman ID and PIN to log in and check my account transactions or download them to Quicken, I learned it is not possible. I also identified a transaction that was charged incorrectly to my Apple Card rather than my AMEX.

I cancelled my card immediately. I recommend that others cancel as well in protest for this substandard financial product.

The Apple Card account I opened will not allow download of transactions from the Goldman Sachs website or into Quicken. I depend on this for my taxes and records, and it's a standard capability for every legitimate bank card and bank account I have ever used. Having to manually track and transfer Apple charges from an app on my phone is a non starter for me, my freelance business and my accountant.

The many support people from Apple and Goldman I encountered were poorly trained and gave me incorrect info about this. Some tried to represent that integration with the bank for transaction download would be coming, but the way the product is designed I find this hard to believe. Some had never even heard of Quicken. Most credit cards have Quicken specialists they can transfer callers to.

On a more disturbing note, as soon as I activated it, Apple charged my Apple Card for a purchase I made on my iPhone via Apple Pay, explicitly using my AMEX card, without warning -- and pulled the funds from my bank account immediately. I lost the cash back on that purchase from AMEX and lost the ability to pay that change after receiving my AMEX statement. This transaction redirection should be banned.

Note that I did NOT choose to make the Apple Card the default for Apple store purchases and Apple services.

One rep even tried to convince me that this transaction change to Apple Card happened because, even though my VISA is my default card, the Apple card would be used as a default because I had Apple Cash enabled (but not set up or activated) and because it was at the top of my card list in Wallet Settings. She said it had to be at the bottom under my Apple Card but she did not even know how to disable or delete Apple Cash! Of course, I deleted it myself.

The experience makes me wary of Apple's ill-conceived and greedy approach and I will do my best to avoid purchasing subscriptions via Apple if I can do so directly from the actual vendor.

I love Apple and have been a loyal customer but this Apple Card is living in its own private dream world -- they don't disclose up front how it fails to function normally (or integrate with Quicken) like any legitimate bank card. I offer this critique in hopes that it will be constructive and that someone at Apple will take note.

It was interesting playing with the AppleCard for a week; but went to pay my bills and balance my accounts in Quicken (which is nicely on the Mac now, finally; excellent feature set after many years), and that was a bust. Really? No connection to download transactions? Oh well, I will keep the card for awhile, but moved the AMEX back to the front.

I thought online banking was bad (none of them can calc my total future balance like Quicken always has), but the total segregation of AppleCard reminds me of the times I looked into using MINT or things like PageOnce (renamed a couple times I think). What is the point, if a "budget" tool does not include every single monetary component of your finances.

Oh! Maybe that's it. Maybe Apple is going to get into the whole personal financial business; just add the banking and trading service all on your phone and boom! Total financial service model complete; and Quicken can finally close shop. (don't hold your breath).