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The Bargain Nexus - Ibank
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List Price: $69.95
Our Price: $49.48
Your Save: $ 20.47 ( 29% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Igg Software
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Igg Software
EAN: 0897133001017
Feature: Track transactions for a given category, amount or date - and set Import Rules so that bank transactions are done YOUR way
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Igg Software
Manufacturer: Igg Software
Model: 001017
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Igg Software
Release Date: 2007-05-15
Studio: Igg Software
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Features
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Track transactions for a given category, amount or date - and set Import Rules so that bank transactions are done YOUR way
Robust import engine for OFX, QFX, QIF and CSV files
Quickly analyze expenses and income with live updating charts
Set up an account in iBank for each of your real-life accounts, including checking, savings, credit cards, investment -- even liability and asset accounts
Support for multiple currencies, easily download exchange rates
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: It's no MS Money
Comment: I had online bill pay before there was an internet; remember Managing Your Money with CheckFree? I've been using various personal finance programs for over 20 years so judge my remarks in that light. I was hoping to move towards PC freedom with this product. The latest version of iBank will not run on OS 10.4 Tiger. The older version was included, but it was pretty lame. No online updating of accounts was my main complaint. The rest seemed clunky too, but that may have just been the learning curve. I sent mine back. If you have a later (Leopard) OS, this may work for you, but I hated it.
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Summary: Much improved, and a generous free trial
Comment: I downloaded iBank to try, from the company's website, and I recommend to do this to anyone interested. The trial is quite generous, in a way that while you can only enter 75 transactions, you can try this all over again, staring a new file as many times as you wish. For example, you may want to try connectivity to your bank, credit card company, or brokerage, as I did. Even the 75 transaction limit is not as strict as it may sound - I downloaded 1,206 transactions from my brokerage, Scottrade (yes, it all went well!), and only after giving an opportunity to reconcile, iBank said I had exceeded the number of transactions - and now have 15 more minutes... So, you get the picture. Anyone can get a pretty good idea from trial whether or not iBank will work for them.
iBank runs pretty well on my 4 years old G4 PowerBook - yes, even with those 1206 transactions imported. I was pleasantly surprised. The interface is nice, needless to say. If you crave that OS X-native Cocoa feel (and I won't judge ;) ), you'll definitely get it. It also connects to many financial institutions, has the option to tag entries with tax codes to export for use in TurboTax.
To some institutions I tried, however, iBank could not connect directly, while Quicken for Mac 2007 did. Vanguard is one example. Here, I was surprised to how many iBank actually *could* connect directly, and that for the rest downloading and importing the data instead worked really smooth!
If you look for the most functionality - including connectivity to banks and brokerages - you should consider Quicken for Windows, perhaps running it on your (Intel!) Mac through BootCamp (free) or using virtualization programs (some of which are free, too, check out what Sun Microsystems offers). For me, however, iBank just feels nicer as a piece of software, and I have more confidence in their support. Also, the cost will almost certainly be less than that of Quicken, over years. Overall, for many Mac users there is finally an able alternative to Quicken. Download a trial and see if it is right for you.
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Summary: horrible!!
Comment: This software is just horrible. The most obvious problem is that none of the banks or credit cards I use support OFX. I figured out how to download a qif file and then convert it, but it is cumbersome. None of the so called easy downloads and updates work at all if your bank doesn't support OFX. Many banks and cards are not even in their little list. You have to do everything manually to make it work at all. I finally threw in the towel when I realized that my credit card transactions were coming thru as though they were bank transactions. To reverse the positives and negatives by hand just took way too long after manually importing all the data. ( What I mean is that my balance on my credit cards shows up as a credit, so it adds it to my bank balance, making it look like I have way more money than reality.)
After reading equally awful reviews about Quicken, I decided to try it. I am not thrilled with their product either, but at least it is more user friendly and able to use the file formats most financial institutions use. If you do like I did and go with the quicken, do yourself a favor and start from scratch. Don't try to import 10 years worth of data, just let it go. Same goes for the Ibank. Start from today and go forward. Save yourself the misery.
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Summary: Best Finacial App for Mac out there. Awesome Customer Service!!!
Comment: So as many of your probably have I switched from PC to MAC and quickly found that there is close to a famine of good financial apps available. Quicken for MAC is a lame attempt to appease a growing population of PC deserters. I had been using parallels and running MS Money inside XP but that was growing tiresome. Couldn't SOMEONE make a good money program for mac?
Enter iBank.
iBank is a wonderful, powerful, and easy to use, financial application. And there are plenty of reasons why as well as a free demo. All these are exactly what I was looking for but what I wasn't expecting was fantastic customer support. iBank is made by a company known as IGG Software and they are incredibly helpful, fast, and responsive. iBank is the best software out there for MAC and the fantastic customer support makes this decision a no brainer.
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Summary: iBank
Comment: I should have check for reviews before ordering.
iBank is too confusing vs Quicken. I have not been able to set up as of this time.
Regret ordering iBank.
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Editorial Reviews:
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iBank 2 is an intuitive full-featured personal and small business financial manager. Manage bank accounts, credit cards and investments, analyze income and expenses with live updating charts, and plan your financial future with budgeting and forecasting. Wrapped in a beautiful Aqua interface, iBank 2 is a robust financial application able to meet the needs of casual spenders and online day-traders alike. Create budgets to plan your finances; Check how well you are sticking to your budgets with the Budget Monitor Scheduled transactions - Have iBank automatically enter planned or repeating transactions so that you don't have to Project account balances into the future based on pending scheduled transactions and/or historical balances Print checks using customizable templates Associate images with transactions, or organize groups by color, for easier visual management AppleScript support . Mac integration for safe, automatically backups
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