Bright Start Savings - for investors NOT advisors
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+1 This is the only account I am missing as well. To other comments, the advisor login is available but not the investor login page.
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Hello- New Quicken Simplifi user here. I am not able to connect to my Illinois Bright Start 529 account. Can you please add this connection? Thank you.
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I'm trying out the different options coming across from Mint. I like what I see of Simplifi so far, but not being able to add this account will probably be a deal breaker for me. The competitors I have tried so far have this account activated.
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Unfortunately, @bobdobilina Quicken support has stated numerous times that they won't do anything about this and it's very frustrating. They just state that if their aggregator, Intuit, supports the connection then they would have the connection. That either means that Quicken has a problem or that Intuit products don't use only Intuit aggregation (because all Intuit products have this connection).
Quicken's only help thus far is the recommendation to contact the bank, but I don't see how that is helpful when every other service I've used can connect to this account. We have no idea what the problem is to actually try to work with the bank on it. The service connects fine to the bank's portal for advisor-run accounts, so it's not a matter of the bank not supporting it. When contacted, the only information I eventually got from the bank is that they aren't planning on changing anything with support for Quicken - they wouldn't elaborate on what they are already doing or if this should work.
If this is a deal breaker, you should definitely look elsewhere because I've been trying to get this connection for four years and have contacted the bank, Intuit aggregation service, and Quicken. Nobody will provide any support or help other than to tell you to contact someone else.
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Hey Quicken, Illinois has 13 million people! What is the hold up??
Just signed up today, will probably cancel my account… really annoying.
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I'm bowing out team. 4 years and counting on waiting for this connection.
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@MrGood - I may be right behind you. I don't want to pay $100 a year for the "butterfly" but may take a look again at what some of the bank services offer. I have too many account to not have them all in one place, but I don't like giving money and getting ignored.
To save the trouble, yes we've had some responses, but "We've requested it and have no further information at this time." Is the equivalent of being ignored. A politician could say we're not being ignored, look at the replies, but everybody knows what's happened based on the responses: Filling out a "request this bank" form, one time, and sending it to Intuit, one time, four years ago and then never lifting another finger.
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@bowgy4 - I hear ya. I'm actually headed to the "butterfly." Ultimately, it comes down to the value proposition. It is more expensive but the featureset has been expanding aggressively (which is what I would expect given the significant increase in cost). Took me a long time to break away from the SM "Spending Plan," a feature I had grown very fond off.
In the end, to me it was about transparency from Quicken. Other competing services were making it happen while Quicken was shifting the "load" to the customers to request the connection from the institutions involved (not something I had seen from the other services)…
In any case, best of luck in your Bright Start journey…1 -
WOW THIS IS CRAZY. Just came in from Mint but I guess I'm going to have to cancel and move on.
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Hi, is this still an open issue after more than three years? I am a new user and am trying to add this account, but I still only see the "advisor" choice listed.
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@Sara N Unfortunately, yes, still an issue with no changes ever implemented. Apparently Quicken has no control over what banks they can connect to. They pay a single aggregator for a certain set of connections and if that aggregator doesn't add that bank to those connections, then there is nothing Quicken can do other than request it one time and hope it gets added at some point. Because every other service I've tried has this connection, they must be paying for a lower tier of connections and don't have everything Intuit has to offer (Intuit has this connection in their own products).
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4 months into 2024, I feel Simplify is just a data entry tool (not very user friendly or smart) to track transactions, with some reporting tool and with connectivity to most common banks and nothing else. No feature is added in last quarter which I am excited to use, no new connectivity offered like Apple Card etc. Unless something changed, I would not waste my money renewing my subscription.
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Commenting to request a connection to Brightstart.
When the feature is realeased…I would appreciate a heads up if it's possible to add me to an anoucemnt list.
Thank you.
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Adding my support to include this connection in the product backlog. @Coach Natalie
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IL Brighstart Savings 529 Plan connection is needed
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As of October, Brightstart moved to TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc as their program manager. I see that Minnesota's 529 plan MNSaves is available through Simplifi and they also use TIAA. With this transition, can the support for Brightstart be looked at again?
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Any update based on the previous post (program manager changing)? @Coach Natalie
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Everyone should submit a connection request and provide the login address as well. The login address I have for the new provider is https://www.brightstart-529.com/ildtpl/auth/ll.cs.
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This will never happen without your support Illinois 529 account holders! Please, submit those requests from the account add screen in the app and that way it will be on the list. Hopefully then @Coach Natalie can raise it's priority by referencing the already submitted requests as being something that's been missing for 4 years and is desperately needed and should be possible now that it's TIAA.
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I don’t know how to submit a request in app, but you’d think with a population of 13 million Illinois shouldn’t have to beg to get added here!
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Renewal price raised to $72 a year and this nonsense still going on is all I needed to cancel. I am simplifying my finances :)
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