

Some of the features that are still missing from Quicken For Mac compared to the Windows version are: Quicken for Mac also isn’t as intuitive as Quicken for Windows especially when it comes to finding things on the dashboard or the ability to organize widgets on the home screen. Unfortunately, this disparity hasn’t changed much in the desktop version of Quicken For Mac in 2022 which still isn’t as good as the Windows version in terms of interface, navigation and features. In some ways this introduction of the online version (albeit more limited in features) is better for Mac users because for many years the desktop version of Quicken For Mac has lagged behind the Windows version. By only allowing you to extend your subscription with 6 or fewer months remaining, it prevent people from buying and using multiple copies.Quicken is available both as a desktop version for Mac and Windows but also in a more limited Cloud version known as Quicken On The Web. Quicken has the 6-month policy because otherwise if someone found boxed copies on sale somewhere, they might buy five of them and try to extend their subscription for five years at the discounted price.

But you might luck out and have it work if you keep it. So it if were me, I'd probably return it unopened if I still could. But if you wait five or six months after your purchase to try it, and then it doesn't work… there's no certainty Quicken Support would still honor it. We've had users report that if they just recently bought a package and the code inside was already expired, when they contacted Quicken Support, the Support representative was able to honor the code and extend their subscription.

There's no way to tell from the outside of the box when it was created or when the code inside would/did expire.

Some older Quicken boxes have activation codes which expire after two years. That's an unknown which unfortunately no one here can answer.
