Quicken for Mac at least in the US is able to download data from your bank, I believe Quicken for Windows can do this for some UK banks. Unfortunately despite the fact that for many years Bill Campbell Chairman of Intuit was also on the board of Apple the support for Macs by Intuit for Macs has been utterly appalling and totally non-existent for non US users.
It was getting to be so notorious that some people started calling for Bill Campbell to be removed from the board of Apple and he has since done the decent thing and stepped down from the Apple board.
Getting back to their software, if it had been designed properly then it would work like this -
- Mac or Windows main application, with separate modules to talk to various banks
- Modules would be the same for both Mac and Windows versions
- Then the standard Mac 'main' application could talk to all the same banks as the Windows version without Intuit having to reinvent the wheel each time
Instead the bank modules are part of the main application meaning that they would have to write them all in to the Mac application, with the UK being a much small market than the US, Intuit have rightly considered this to be unjustifiable, so it only has built-in modules for US banks.
As I said all down to a stupid design.
So, the situation is.
- There is no official UK Quick for Mac
- The US one may or may not support the UK currency
- The US one will definitely not support importing data direct from UK banks
- It is my belief that regardless most UK banks are so stupid and old-fashioned from an IT point of view that they do not support producing QIF, QFX or OFX files let alone online access via Quicken
You might want to look at this one instead - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ibank-5/id675813946?mt=12 or http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/
