After the January article about which version of Quicken to use, I received an email from Michelle asking my opinion of Money vs. Quicken. While I don't feel qualified to give an authentic product review and fair comparison, considering that I had only had a chance to try out Money for about 45 minutes six months ago, I do have a few observations, for what they're worth, and more importantly this gives me an opportunity to explain a few more reasons why I like Quicken so much. On Quicken, the categories and subcategories are all on the same list. You select the subcategory, and the appropriate category to which it belongs gets selected right along with it, one step simple. But with Money if you want to select a subcategory you have to first select the category.
Every transaction has a box for both category and sub-category to fill in.
You can ignore the sub-category if it isn't needed, but if it is, two steps are required. This seemed unnecessarily complicated to me. Maybe there's a shortcut you can set up, I don't know, as I only tried it for one session. As I recall, using the 'class' option in addition to 'category' was a little better spelled out and easier to use with Money. Not a big advantage in my opinion, since I do not have a need to use classes.