Track Airline Miles in Quicken
Consumerism Commentary has a great Quicken hack. Flexo explains how to track airline miles with the program. His method is to:
- Enable support for multiple currencies
- Add a custom currenct for the airline miles
- Add your airline account
- Hide the balance from your net worth
You can use this technique to track almost any rewards program you have that deals in “points” or “miles” and not real dollars.
[Consumerism Commentary: Quicken hack: How to track airline miles or points]
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Blog Mirrors » How to track your airline miles in Quicken said,
February 26, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
[...] Airline miles are almost like money in the bank, so why not track them that way? You can use Quicken to track travel reward points as if they were another account. The Consumerism Commentary blog explains how. In short, you create a custom currency for the miles and exclude them from Quicken’s calculations of your net worth. Easy-peasy and very useful for frequent travelers with points and miles from several reward programs. — Gina Trapani Quicken Hack: How to Track Airline Miles or Points [Consumerism Commentary via Money Hacks] [...]