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Quicken Home & Business 2010
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- Quicken Home & Business 2010 easily organizes your personal and business finances
- Organizes your finances and makes portfolio management easier by bringing your accounts together in one place
- Shows you where your money is going by automatically categorizing your personal and home business expenses
- Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
- Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals and identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments
Amazon. com Product DescriptionQuicken Home & Business 2010 gives you the personal finance features found in Quicken Premier plus tools that make it easy to see how your home business is doing. Manages both your personal and business finances together in one place. Click to enlarge. See where your money’s going. Click to enlarge. Always know how your home based business is doing. Click to enlarge. Helps maximiz. . . More >>
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March 20, 2010 -
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THE TECH WHO DESIGNED THIS UPGRADE MUST HAVE BEEN DRUNK! IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BALANCE COLUMN WHEN RECONCILING YOU BANK BY “SORT” FORGET IT!! QUICKEN KNOWS THE GLITCH IS THERE AND DOES NOT HAVE A SOLUTION! DISGUSTING CUSTOMER SERVICE.
ALSO – IF YOU ARE A SMALL BUSINESS AND WANT TO DESIGN YOUR STATEMENT – FORGET THAT TOO! YOU CAN NO LONGER CUSTOMIZE A STATEMENT – IT IS GENERIC AND LOOKS LIKE A THIRD GRADER DESIGNED IT.
I HAVE USED QUICKEN FOR YEARS AND I MUST ADMIT THAT INTUIT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR LETTING THIS PASS AS AN ACCEPTABLE “BOOKKEEPING PROGRAM”
IT IS NOT WORTH 2 CENTS!
I AM ASKING FOR A REFUND AND WILL CONVERT BACK ALL OF MY DATA TO A MORE RELIABLE VERSION – QUICKEN HOME AND BUSINESS 2008!
SHAME ON YOU QUICKEN AND INTUIT FOR THIS INFERIOR PRODUCT AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, DEALING WITH CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES THAT HAVE THICK ACCENTS AND INDISTINGUISABLE WORDS – JUST ADDS TO THE FRUSTRATION.
PUT YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE REPS BACK TO WORK IN THE GOOD OLD U. S. OF A!
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased Quicken to replace Microsoft Money.
The “convertor” program worked adequately, but for the number and types of accounts that I have, the result was not what I wanted.
I opted to “clean house” and recreate each account and bill reminder from scratch, manually. This resulted in 1) a better understanding of Quicken; and 2) more control over the accounts. I picked a cutoff date and I keep Money available as a read-only reference.
Many financial institutions work with the Quicken download — either through a manual download from the institution, or an automatic pull from the Quicken software. Some banks offer an extra-feature/extra-charge download for Quicken users, but I have not needed that.
Learning curves:
- Transfers are a little tricky to setup between accounts.
- Quicken “remembers” the previous transaction and that’s not always what you want. Transactions can end up in the wrong account.
- It was difficult to setup automated downloads vs. bill reminders vs. transfers. Sometimes the transaction would download from the institution, but would not align with the scheduled bill/reminder that you setup in Quicken.
- The vendor names don’t always look correct for downloaded transactions. You can edit these.
Rating: 4 / 5
I used MS Money before, since it MS is stopping support I needed to chage my software. The software works, but many of the features that made Money so simple are lacking. layout is difficult also to navigate. example, when entering a check the enter button is above the line you are working on and the bottom of the previous transaction, several times I have clicked to “enter” and open the transaction before. You can say, well be careful, but I say, lay it out so the target zone is not so critical. I also had 5 times so far when downloading from my bank that transactions did not make it to my register. . . . NEVER happened with Money. . . good bye old friend
Rating: 2 / 5
I was a beta tester when Quicken was a little startup company that cared years ago. Now it is a behemoth that I haven’t seen ANY improvements in it except revenue streams and lousy customer service. . . if there was another I’d use it.
I had written the CEO about this and they suggested I try the NEW 2010 which was little change except to usability (can’t roll back for all the data I’ve put in). In it’s attempt to placate people that shouldn’t even be doing their own accounting they have made it where people as I with Schedule F’s, K1, etc. can’t even get reports because they NOW consider Schedule C’s the only business. So be forewarned!! I downloaded the latest release Ver. 5 and still can’t get my correct reports for my CPA for taxes. . never had these problems in older versions. Didn’t include Home Inventory Mgr. as in previous versions separate sell now.
I see NO reason to upgrade if you aren’t doing your own taxes and are forced to do so. I really have a hard time giving it a 3 star rating but do so reluctantly. You ask why I don’t switch to Quickbooks? Well that program DOESN’T track investments which I use in a special way. . . tracking grain inventory.
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve used Quicken for about 10 years now and it has always had its share of issues. Bugs, oddities, and frustrating work-arounds were pretty standard. I found it better in most was than Money but since MS Money is no longer supported, it looks like Quicken is really the only game in town.
I gotta say, since upgrading to 2010 I see a lot that I like. The new design is better, easier to get a glance at your finances, and the Update feature (auto-downloads of bank accounts) works much better than in 2007. I used to get a list of errors almost every time I updated, but on this version that seems to be fixed. It’s almost more clear when the “error” is that no transactions have posted.
The business section also seems to have been improved with tagging in the registers. This makes it a little easier to sort expenses and income between personal and business. In the 2007 version it was more arduous to separate these items.
Finally, the screen showing outstanding bills is nicer, and I do like the ability to mark a bill as paid and clearly see that it was entered.
The Quicken engineers did a few nice upgrades all around on this version. Is it worth the money to upgrade? If you have any older version of Quicken, I’d say it’s worth the upgrade. If you are on 2009, I’d wait a year or two and get the most out of your last investment. I was *forced* to upgrade because 2007 will stop supporting downloads from bank accounts in April. This is standard for Quicken- they force you to upgrade every three years. This is one reason I will probably never rate their products with 5-stars (are you listening, Intuit??).
Rating: 4 / 5