Moneydance comments

At 2:50 PM -0700 2005/04/12, Rudy Soetewey wrote:
>I've been using Moneydance for years now, and are still very pleased
>with it. In my point of view Quicken should certainly NOT be a
>marketleader whatsoever.

        People might be interested to know Moneydance has a *very* active
mailing list (with past messages archived online, though they are a bit
hard to search - you can use google to search through them I suppose.) Sean
Riley is the program author and makes regular postings to the list. The
program is very popular among Linux users, but the majority of the users
seem to be on Mac OS X, and I think that Sean does most of the Java
development on that platform.

<http://moneydance.com/mailman/listinfo/moneydance-info>

        There is also the start of a "wiki" with some feature requests,
documentation, and a FAQ:

<http://moneydance.com/mdwiki/>


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Rudy Soetewey wrote:
 > I've been using Moneydance for years now, and are still very pleased
 > with it. In my point of view Quicken should certainly NOT be a
 > marketleader whatsoever.

I would love to get away from Quicken, but one thing that has been
holding me back is relatively easy tax reporting.

I don't use Quicken to TurboTax importing, so that's not an issue. What
I do use is linking Quicken categories to tax items and then Quicken's
built in Tax reports to pull up a quick list of tax items to cross check
against the receipts I collect and enter into TurboTax.

Quicken's reports aren't actually all that great as the items wind up
scattered across two reports for me, but it works.

Is there a tax link functionality in Moneydance? If not, how do people
handle this? I guess you could always write a custom report to pull
this together (and then do this better than Quicken) if that
functionality exists.

Almost all Quicken competitors on OS X seem to handle international
currencies much better than Quicken. Given that tax regimes are
specific to each country, I've always assumed this would never be built
into a program that handles international users well.

Thanks,
Ware

At 8:49 AM -0700 2005/04/14, Ware Adams wrote:
>Is there a tax link functionality in Moneydance? If not, how do people
>handle this? I guess you could always write a custom report to pull
>this together (and then do this better than Quicken) if that
>functionality exists.

        There seems to be some sort of tax-export "extension" available for
MD (called "TFX Exporter"), and I gather that MD extensions are fairly
straightforward to write (but what do I know?)

<http://moneydance.com/developer.shtml>

        The extensions web page does not seem to list it, but I think it
appears from within the program when you look at the list of extensions
available from moneydance.com

<http://moneydance.com/extensions.shtml>



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At 08:49 -0700 2005.04.14, Ware Adams wrote:

>Almost all Quicken competitors on OS X seem to handle international
>currencies much better than Quicken.

Just who are these competitors, besides Moneydance?

Art Evans

As well as the official moneydance mailing list detailed above, there is also an unofficial list, that I am the list owner of, on Yahoo at

Yahoo group

I started the list a few years back, when the then software owners appeared to stop all support for the program. The software writer Sean Reilly was working for them at that stage, after they bought the program from him. The company stopped development of Moneydance, and then Sean was able to regain control of the program, and left the company. Since then he has restarted development of the program, with constant updates and improvements to the program. Sean is active on both lists, and we have had some discussion about closing down the Yahoo list, but Sean prefers to keep it open as an unofficial list.

I've been using Moneydance for quite a few years, and am very happy with it, and the level of support that Sean offers. My reason for starting the list was that I knew a fair bit about Yahoo lists at the time, rather then as an expert on the program.

Charlie Franklin

I currently use Quicken and would love to get rid of it, however, I need the Class feature, I do project accounting and have currently about 8-10 different classes. This feature works very well for reporting, but Quicken cannot do budgeting based on classes (I have asked for that feature several times, but nothing happened).

Has Moneydance a similar feature as Classes in Quicken, and can Moneydance do automatic budgeting based on classes and previous periods?

- cheers, arent