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Rating:  - A great new version of the # 1 finance software!
I have been using Quicken for well over a decade now, and it is an indispensible part of my financial management.This NEW version of Quicken Home & Business is a great upgrade and builds upon a solid history. Quicken has long been the # 1 rated and # 1 best-selling finance software for a good reason. It's the fastest, easiest way to do finances. I love it! This new version features a more intuitive organization, lets you automatically schedule your financial transactions to be downloaded (so you don't have to waste time when you start quicken), has better investing and tax modules, and is just generally EVEN EASIER and FASTER to use. I run a small consulting business and Quicken Home & Business is perfect... I don't need all the full power of QuickBooks. For the user who asked about multi-user, sounds as though you should get QuickBooks, which is Intuit's real easy-to-use BUSINESS software. Quicken is really only meant for the personal finances, i.e., Schedule C stuff is fine and it does invoices and job tracking for the independent consultant or contractor, but it's not meant to run a whole business with multiple employees -- get QuickBooks for that. In all, this is a great product whether you are new to Quicken or looking to upgrade! I highly recommend it!!
Rating:  - Can't Print , Obnoxiously Intrusive
I am very disappointed in this release of Quicken. This is my 3rd version, upgrading from Deluxe 2001. It's in all probability my last. I've encountered print problems with both 2001 and 2003 (different OS, different printers). Was finally able to resolve printing issue in v. 2001 with update they released. Not so with 2003. I have the latest update (R3) running XP Pro. Intuit Support is sketchy at best and I refuse to pay for it. (First and last time I spoke to them, regarding the 2001 printing issue, the response I got was "Well, you had two months to try the product and if you didn't like it you could have returned it under our money back guarantee. Now it's too late.") I have searched Intuit Support and the web and cannot find a fix for the printing issue. In order to print a Reconciliation Report, I have to save in Notepad in .TXT format, then print from there. The layout in Notepad is horrible and going through several steps to print is a royal pain. The program's interface is bloated and busy to the point of being annoying. I don't bank online, yet every time I launch the program I'm prompted for Quicken to be the default Web Connection for data from my financial institution. Doesn't seem to be a way to turn this prompt off. I just want to work on my finances, I don't want or appreciate their constant ads on the main page for everything from their credit card to Quicken Brokerage online. I also have M$ Money 2003 Deluxe, and would use that soley were it not for the fact that there is no means to assign passwords to individual files/accounts and the .NET passport tie-in. Since I handle other family members finances as well, I must be able to assign passwords, hence my choice of Quicken. The program has great capabilities, but all in all I'm extrememly disappointed in it's performance.
Rating:  - Buggy Software and a Terrible Interface
Where do I begin with all the issues I've had.First, Quicken 2003 was unable to import my old Quicken 2002 files. It appears some data corruption was the cause. So I spent hours moving my data over manually. What a nightmare. Once I finally got to use Quicken 2003, I was disappointed in the upgrade. Personally, I didn't see much difference from my 2002 version. I had really hoped that the new version would be a big leap in usability, as the promo material promised. But Quicken 2003 still suffers from an incredibly hard to learn and understand interface. I'm really good with computers, but getting all my accounts to balance out just seems impossible -- and I've spent days determined to figure it out. Then the fun began. First, I attempted to transfer my Quicken data into Turbotax to make my taxes quick and easy. BIG MISTAKE. For whatever reason, Quicken doesn't transfer all the data you need to Turbotax. If you read the fine print buried in the help manual, it warns you about this. So when you go to do your taxes, it's almost impossible to know which data transfers and which doesn't. So you end up either entering data twice or not at all -- my taxes were off by over $800 using the automatic data transfer!! Eventually, I just gave up and entered all my data into TurboTax manually. So what started out as an effort to save time quickly became a huge WASTE of time. Then Quicken just stopped printing on me. I had to uninstall and reinstall the program several times to get it working again. I would have called technical support, but they CHARGE for technical support, even if the problem is a bug in their own program. I tried the online chat, but that's was just awful. Halfway through, the tech support guy told me that I had to close Quicken... which in turn closes the chat window! So I had to start all over again. Nightmare! In the end, all these issues add up and make me believe that this program is not worth the money in any way, shape or form. I'd save a lot more time just using an Excel spreadsheet.
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