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Quicken 2008 Home & Business

Quicken 2008 Home & Business
From: Intuit

List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $36.93
You Save: $63.02 (63%)



New (33) Used (1) from $36.93

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 54 reviews
Sales Rank: 30

Format: Cd
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4

MPN: 403616
UPC: 028287017214
EAN: 0028287017337
ASIN: B000U0AEE2

Release Date: September 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New/Factory Sealed, NEAR MINT CONDITION IF NOT PERFECT, Comes with full factory warranties/support as would be expected, Exactly as Pictured in FULL RETAIL BOX (BE AWARE OF UNBOXED/SLEEVE ONLY/PROMO DISCS -WITHOUT WARRANTY- BEING SOLD ON AMAZON), This is the same item you would buy at any major retail store for $90 + tax, Ships with FREE UPGRADE TO 1ST CLASS MAIL (delivery time usually 3-6 business days), Ships within 2 business days in bubble wrap envelope with FREE tracking # (email request for #/please allow 24-48 hours for reply), 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed, We are a 13 year old family owned business with 2 local retail stores here in Ft. Myers, FL. Buy with Confidence!!!!

Features:
  • Perfect for home business owners and self-employed professionals
  • Track personal and business expenses in one place and see how your business is doing
  • Capture all your possible business deductions and see your tax deduction status throughout the year
  • Connect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single password
  • Make online banking even better--bring all your personal and business online accounts together in one place

Similar Items:

  • TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State 2007
  • Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual
  • Quicken 2008 The Official Guide (Quicken: The Official Guide)
  • Quicken 2008 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
  • TurboTax Business 2007

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
If you have a home business or are self-employed, you need Quicken Home & Business 2008. It is the only Quicken software that brings your personal and business finances together--while letting you manage them both separately--for a complete view of your financial picture.

Easily see your total financial picture -- including your business and personal finances.

Quicken helps you identify transactions you enter as business or personal, income or expenses, with a single click.

See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses.

Scan in and attach related documents to particular accounts or projects, so you have everything you need in one place for easy reference at tax time.

Because, for you, business is personal.
Quicken Home & Business 2008 gives you the personal financial features found in Quicken Premier plus smart business tracking tools.

Manage both your personal and business finances together in one place
Easily see your total financial picture--including your business and personal finances. You can manage them together or separately--and view them as you wish.

Manage your business expenses from personal accounts
Because Quicken Home & Business tracks both your personal and business finances, it's easy to track business expenses you paid for with a personal account--i.e., office supplies on a personal credit card or dinner out with a client you paid for with personal cash.

Instantly see how your business is doing
The redesigned Business Center gives you an overall snapshot of your business and personal finances--what's coming in for the month, what's going out, and what's left over in your personal and business accounts. A new Profit and Loss view helps you see how your business is doing overall for the year.

Easily track and categorize business expenses
Quicken helps you identify transactions you enter as business or personal, income or expenses, with a single click. Avoid having to enter the same data twice. Quicken remembers the first time you enter a business transaction, then applies the same information to similar entries in the future.

View all your finances in one place.
Bring your personal and business accounts--banks, 401(k) or other IRA, online brokerages--together in one place. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple web sites and trying to remember multiple passwords.(1) With Quicken you can you can see it all in one place with just ONE password.

Maximize deductions so you can minimize your taxes
Quicken Home & Business makes it easier than ever to categorize deductions. What's more, the business tax deduction summary lets you instantly see your tax deduction status throughout the year to help maximize your deductions and help avoid any April 15th surprises. Easily import data to TurboTax.(2)

Pay your bills on time
See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and--most importantly--help avoid late fees. Easily pay personal or business bills right from within Quicken with Quicken Bill Pay or a third party bill pay service.(3)

Keep important documents together and protected
Just scan in and attach related documents to particular accounts or projects, so you have everything you need in one place for easy reference at tax time.

Get free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken(4)
If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new software, free phone support is available for Quicken Home & Business 2008 through December 31, 2008.

What's New in 2008

Get what you need to stay on top of your business

  • New! Get help finding deductions you may have missed
    Clearly see your business tax deduction summary to date in the Business Center--and see other possible deductions that Quicken has found to help make the most of your tax return.
  • New! Easily track your business' profit or loss
    The new Profit and Loss view in the Business Center lets you check in anytime to see how your business is growing.
  • New! Get a total picture of where you stand
    The Cash Flow Center gives you an overall snapshot your business and personal finances--what's coming in for the month, what's going out, and what's left over in your business and personal accounts.

Clearly keep track of expenses

  • Improved! Categorizing your expenses is easier than ever
    A simple drop down menu makes it faster to categorize your income and expenses as business and personal--right from your register. You can also add extra important details to any transaction, so you can assign it to a particular business, client or project.

Let Quicken do the heavy lifting

  • Improved! More connections to more financial institutions
    Quicken Home & Business 2008 connects you to over 5300 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal. It's easier than ever to truly bring your accounts together in one place.(1)
  • New! Import your PayPal account transactions into Quicken
    Whether it's personal payments or business income--or both--Quicken can now import your transaction data directly from PayPal.
  • New! See where you can save more
    A new "My Savings Plan" instantly shows a summary of your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Quickly see where you have room to spend or save more. Set flexible spending targets on regular expenses like gas and groceries and then check your progress as you go through the month.
  • Improved! Smarter navigation makes it easier access the tools you need
    A more intuitive navigation makes it easier and faster to get around and discover the features and tools that work best for you. Tabs let you quickly switch between Quicken's main pages. And a new interactive account bar makes it clear which of your accounts you are working with at any given moment.
  • New! Get reminders of scheduled bills and transactions--without opening Quicken
    If you're using Windows Vista, our new Quicken Billminder Gadget can remind you of scheduled bills and transactions directly from your desktop.
(1) Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions and fees. More than 5,322 participating financial institutions as of 6/05/07.
(2) TurboTax sold separately
(3) To pay bills in Quicken requires Quicken Bill Pay (sold separately) or a third party bill pay service (fees may apply).
(4) Email, Forums and Chat technical support provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Phone technical support provided Monday - Friday, 5:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT. Additional fees may apply.


Product Description
Quicken Home & Business 2008 brings your personal and business finances together for a complete view of your financial picture. Get smart business tracking tools to track expenses you paid for with a personal account. The redesigned Business Center gives you an overall snapshot for what's going out from your accounts, what's coming in during the month and what's left. Quicken remembers the first time you enter a business transaction to avoid needing to enter the same data twice. This applies to similar entries in the future to help identify transactions you enter as business or personal, income or expenses, with just a single click. Bring your personal and business accounts such as banks, 401(k) or other IRA, online brokerages together in one place. Avoid surprises during tax time by categorizing deductions and instantly see your status throughout the year with the business tax deduction summary. See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and help avoid late fees. Quicken Home & Business exports your data directly to TurboTax, so you won't have to re-enter the same information twice.


Customer Reviews:   Read 49 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars If you're considering jumping into Quicken   September 14, 2007
J. Nelson (Orange County, CA)
141 out of 165 found this review helpful

You should ask yourself - "how can a piece of software be capable of generating so much hostility from its user base?" If you can't think up a good answer, go ahead and install Quicken, and you'll have an answer before long.

Some of my favorite quirks from Quicken 2006 & 2007 that I'm glad to see survived the upgrade to Quicken 2008:

Basic arithmetic errors: sometimes, if you edit transactions in the register, every subsequent transaction will get confused about the running total (e.g., change a $10 debit to a $20 debit, and instead of changing the running total by $10, watch in delight and amazement as the running total leaps by thousands, literally thousands, of dollars).

Basic reporting errors: go ahead and open the category list, and click the (very unintuitive) button to generate a report for the category _DivInc. If, like me, you have several years of investment transactions, you're sure to have dividend income, but Quicken will tell you "no transactions for this category." Funny, if you type _DivInc into the global search window, it will bring up all those transactions the report couldn't locate.

File corruption: sometimes, I like to imagine Quicken's routines as a bunch of angry little gnomes running around the traces of my processor and through the registers of my memory. This is because, every so often, the gnomes demand a sacrifice, and offer up burnt offerings of your data integrity to their terrible god of woe. I can't otherwise imagine how downloading QFX data from Hewitt Associates confused Quicken so - in the online center, it shows "number of outstanding transactions: -65,536" Yep, negative 2 to the 16th power of transactions outstanding.

Probably the worst part about Quicken, however, is trying to free your data. If you've got any kind of complicated financial picture (i.e, if you're over 25 years old), you won't be able to free yourself from Quicken's grasp, since the only way to get data out of the program is in QIF format, one measly account at a time. Funny, they don't support _importing_ QIFs, claiming, and I quote, "QIF technology is over 10 years old and was designed for technical support purposes . . . QIF Data Import requires many steps to download, is a poor customer experience and can lead to duplicate transactions and errors." That old technology is good enough for you should you dare to _export_ data from Quicken, however. They're going to make darn sure that you have a "poor customer experience" and suffer from "duplicate transactions and errors" if you try to take your data anywhere else.



4 out of 5 stars Upgraded from Quicken 2005   November 28, 2007
Eric Radman (Seattle, WA)
56 out of 58 found this review helpful

I recently upgraded to Quicken 2008 from Quicken 2005. I did this since the online downloading capabilities for Q2005 would end in April 2008.
(Quicken's policy is to support the current version, plus the prior two years)

I've been a Quicken user & fan since 1994. Quite frankly, I'm not overly impressed with 2008. It has a new navigation bar, a new look and feel, and some (very minor) enhancements. Underneath the look and feel, it acts just like Quicken 2005.

If you're familiar with Q2005, you'll feel (almost) at home with Q2008. Obviously, Intuit is having a challenging time making a great product even better.

Overall, I can't recommend upgrading to Q2008 if you're not forced by Intuit. There aren't enough compelling new enhancements to justify an upgrade. It's still a great product, but the upgrade to Q2008 isn't a major improvement.






2 out of 5 stars eBay Sellers Alert: As of 12/31/07, PayPal Downloads Don't Work   October 2, 2007
The Barrington Garage (Maryland, USA)
31 out of 34 found this review helpful

UPDATE 5/15/08: PayPal downloads still do not work consistently. I've been unable to download any PayPal transactions for over 2 weeks, and all the Quicken web site says is they're working on a fix which should be available shortly. I've had this product for well over 6 months, and PayPal downloads haven't worked with any regularity for the entire time. I hardly think 6 months qualifies as "shortly". Updates from other financial institutions also only work sporadically, though they are a bit more consistent than PayPal. This product simply doesn't do all it's advertised to do, and the company should be ashamed of themselves for misrepresenting its functionality.

UPDATE 12/31/07: In my first review (below), I stated that I had decided against upgrading due to the inability to download itemized PayPal transaction fees. I later changed my mind because I decided I could at least get my general PayPal data into Quicken and use PayPal's own reporting to get an itemization of fees. The PayPal downloads initially seemed to work fine, but now I'm rarely able to import any new transactions. Sometimes, the program will tell you the account update was successful even though no new transactions were imported. Other times, the program claims there's a Quicken server outage.

The last time I was able to import any new transactions was 12/27/07. The Quicken support technician I chatted with insisted I must have a corrupted file. Ironically, creating an entirely new Quicken file and PayPal account only resulted in the same problems. Quicken now acknowledges there's an issue on their support site, but there's no information on when a fix will be available.

If you're an eBay seller hoping this is the answer to your PayPal accounting needs, I'm afraid you're in for a big disappointment. At this point, I wouldn't waste my money on an upgrade.




I'm an eBay PowerSeller, and I currently use the 2006 version of Quicken Home and Business. I was excited to see that the 2008 version adds the capability to import PayPal transactions, but my enthusiasm was quickly dampened after I visited the Quicken support site and found the following statement:

"When PayPal transactions are downloaded using One Step Update, the PayPal fee is not separated out and does not appear as a Split line. In prior versions of Quicken, you could import a QIF file, which updated the information. However, Quicken no longer supports the QIF file, and PayPal does not download the required information in the supported QFX format. You must edit the transaction and enter the Split manually."

So, if you're looking to keep track of how much you're paying PayPal in fees, you'll have to manually edit every single imported transaction, a process which was unnecessary with QIF imports. That doesn't sound like much of an upgrade to me. I've decided to stick with the 2006 version. I have my PayPal account set up as an Asset account, so I can still download my history files from PayPal with the split information intact since QIF imports still work with Asset accounts. It's not a perfect solution, but it's certainly preferable to manually updating every single transaction.

Does Intuit really expect us to pay $70-$80 for the privilege of making accounting chores more time-consuming and tedious?



1 out of 5 stars Did anyone test this software?   December 24, 2007
B. Falk (Los Angeles, CA USA)
31 out of 33 found this review helpful

What serious and professional company would release software that has not been tested to run correctly when you have a Mircosoft Brand mouse?

If you use a recent microsoft mouse and have Intellipoint drivers installed, Quickbook 2008 will exhibit screen flickering that will make it impossible to use.

Intuit has been aware of these problems on their forums for months.



1 out of 5 stars Stick with Quicken 2007   January 4, 2008
Guybyny (Staten Island, NY USA)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful

As a long time Quicken user who upgrades to the latest release nearly every year I approached the 2008 version with great expectations. Integration with Paypal & personal cash flow tab amongst other touted enhancements.

First off, let me say that I have been using this software for nearly 3 months. I am up to Release 5. I would classify the problems with the 2008 version as follows:
1) Performance problems
2) Download woes
3) Data integrity /bugs

1) Performance problems - the program will go into spasms when trying to do anything as complex as adding a single transaction to the register. It will blink, sometimes for as long as 30 secs, before adding the transaction & returning control of the program to you. It is so slooooooooow that it can literally drive you crazy, that is if the flashing spasms of the program haven't sent you into epileptic shock first.

2)Download woes - Paypal integration? Not if you use their security dongle. Other downloads fail routinely with HSBC about 50% of the time due to "Quicken server issues" & with other financial institutions about 5-10% of the time. Much higher than I experienced with Quicken 2007. On the plus side I am now downloading from Janus, but that may have been possible in the 2007 version as well and I didn't realize it.

3)Data integrity & bugs - I'll only report my most frustrating here and that is in the tax planner. Enter a number manually & magically it disappears & defaults back to a Quicken estimate. After much trial & error I found a workaround - you need to exit the planner after entering a manual number, then re-launch it for that number to "stick". Totally unacceptable & unbelievable that in 5 releases it's still not fixed.

This stands in stark contrast to Intuit's arguably greatest software achievement ever - Turbotax 2007 - this years edition is the most perfect, elegant combination of interface simplicity, intuitiveness & functionality I have ever experienced in a software product. Note to Intuit - no more enhancements needed - it's perfect! Just repeat next year & the year after please. Can't the Quicken team borrow a few of the Turbotax programmers to fix this Quicken baby?

If you are running an older version of Quicken this may be worth the upgrade in order to get the cumulative enhancements made over the years. But for Quicken 2007 users who are satisfied, since there is no apparent way to revert your Quicken 2008 files back to 2007 format, upgrade at your own risk!



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