All future Quicken products will be subscription products. To provide you with these new features, a subscription to connected services is a required part of your product purchase. In addition to online banking, you’ll automatically receive new Quicken features, versions, and services as part of your Quicken subscription, so you’ll always have the newest product. The new Quicken Canada is designed so that you never go through the upgrade process again. I don’t like online banking, do I still need to buy connected services? The big change was slipped into the FAQ regarding connected services: When it was originally released a few days ago, the FAQ for Quicken 2017 in Canada stated that all future Quicken releases will be subscription products. If true, it is likely to push increasingly push Mac users towards better and cheaper Quicken alternatives such as the free Personal Capital. If users choose not to renew their annual subscription to Quicken on Windows or Mac, they will no longer be able to manually update their accounts, although they will still be able to access them, edit them and run reports. The Canadian version of Quicken 2017 has just been released and is using a subscription payment only model. Quicken Inc has dropped a big hint that both Quicken for Windows and Mac may soon be subscription payment only in the US meaning no more one-off payments for the product.
