Steve

I am a using Money 2006 with Bank of America. The automated direct
connection to the bank is not free unless you have an advantage account.
You however can manually download from the web site and use the web site
free bill pay with any account.

Art

Steve wrote:
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On 24 Jul 2005 07:48:29 -0700, Steve wrote:
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I have been a long time user of Money 2004 and Bank of America. BOA has their
own online billpay system. One can then download register transactions into
Money. I know of no way to integrate the two other than that.

--
Mike.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Chris,
Thanks for your input too. Would you know if Money 2006 is
supported by Bank of America-Connecticut? We have just been merged into
BOA's system this week. I have free bill pay with them. I will not
attempt to integrate thru Money for awhile anyway, but I was just
wondering if the so called "seamless integration" exists between Money
2006 and Bank of America.
Steve

If you use it for online stuff, 2006 is significantly improved in that
regard for non-Yodlee/MSN stuff. I don't have a Passport on my account, so
don't know how it works for Yodlee and/or MSN linking.

For online accounts supported directly by the FI, transaction matching is
significantly improved, especially, in my experience, investment
transactions. I only do basic buy/sell stuff, so can't speak to options or
similar transactions.

It's slower than 2004, for me. The loss of speed is not consistent in all
modules and, after some use in a given session, seems to improve. Also, I
get intermittent Server Not Found errors on different pages, most
consistently Investments. If I can find a resolution or workaround for that,
I may upgrade. The transaction matching improvements may outweigh the speed
losses, but I haven't decided, yet.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL


"Steve" <sjcohen730[at]aol.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the update Dick. Any further input from you will be
appreciated. Steve

I did install the trial version on my laptop. (The same laptop I did the M05
work on last year.) It runs like a snail OD-ed on Valium--to the point of
being utterly unusable for a full trial using parallel data entry. (Startup
to app terminate is over 30 minutes without entering one thing or navigating
beyond the home page.) I don't think this is a common problem, but there
have been others here reporting it in specific environments including Chris
Cowles. I posted some data points several weeks back and have traded some
email with Russ P-J on the subject.

Beyond that, my initial reaction is that it's little more than M05 that
they've taken a little 200 grit sandpaper to. They've explicitly put back
dual category list. I had to look a little further before it told me that
Most Users Prefer(tm) the dumbed-down stuff. Beyond that, I was hard pressed
to find anything that ameliorates my M05 complaints. It's still got more
different menu bars and redundant pull outs/down/ups/overs and wasted real
estate than any app needs. It still seems chock full of ads and hooks to get
you into MSN to start generating some click-through. It still mangles my M04
file categories. (Curiously, an already unmangled M05 version file that had
the mangling undone didn't get re-mangled.) It still acts like the only
possible way to set up an account is online and Passport is just obviously
something your file just has to have or you are some kind of ignorant
lowlife. Tools|Settings is still this random walk of different UIs and oddly
scattered stuff.I still can't find much of anything improved for my use. Not
one of my long-standing wishes was incorporated. (I suppose they could claim
the Improved Dual Category List Entry feature, but I don't want to give them
too much credit.) A number of people have reported performance improvements.
Not on my laptop. Not even close.

I have been up to my earbulbs at work, and given my lack of desire to risk
the production M04 environment, and given its utter unusability on my
laptop, I haven't gone any further with it. For this reason, I've been
reluctant to post much on it or update the http://umpmfaq.info/Money2005.htm
page. All other things being equal, I would like to try M06 on another
machine that is a known quantity for running M04. Unfortunately, I only have
one machine that fits that bill and all other things have not been equal
lately. Maybe tomorrow I'll take a hack at this? (First I'll have to scare
up some disk space. No matter how big a disk you get you WILL fill it sooner
or later with more or less useless crap with just enough useful stuff mixed
in to make it a real pain to deal with.)

"Steve" <sjcohen730[at]aol.com> wrote in message
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Hi Dick,
I picked up Money 2006 premium at Costco earlier this week but
have not installed it yet. So far I haven't heard too many horror
stories, especially from folks like me who input most data manually and
never use passport. I guess you've "played around" with Money 2006 a
little, so what's your initial reaction? Thanks,
Steve