I keep discarding book keeping systems like tissue paper, wondering how on earth anyone makes these things work long term.
Intuit? Jesus, it tied itself in knots after a year.
Zoho? Seems good at first, but if your feeds from your accounts EVER BREAK, that's it. Fixing them again is functionally impossible. You're expect to hand edit to fix any missed transactions, and it's even odds whether reconnecting the feeds will also corrupt the entire history.
I just. I don't get how any of these things stay in business.
All the while, I'm thinking "Quicken worked better than any of these, and you just bought it once forever."
Is there anything like Quicken/etc out there still? Not online, no bank connections, just rules that filter transactions and you import the statements manually. I'm fucking done. This entire industry has rotted over the last decade, and I don't think there's any functional options left. Any online option that works today will stop working by the end of the year because That's The Biz.
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