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 Quicken Home & Business May 17, 2008
Susan Hazzard (Lantana, FL USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Have used Quicken for years and the new combined home and business package offers more flexibility and options for an all in one program that track both my home and company expenses! I am very happy with this program, as I tried Quick Books several years back and UGH what a cumbersome process.
Home & Business Quicken is just the right answer for me!!
 Don't always believe the bashers. July 1, 2008
Carol (Chatsworth, CA United States)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, most people who have a problems want the world to know, so they bash the product. Every computer and EVERY product is going to have issues sometimes. I've used Quicken for nearly 20 years. I've tried MS Money and, as a bookkeeper, many other bookkeeping types of software. There is nothing on the market that is better. Quicken does everything it says it does. It's easy to use and understand. I download all my credit cards and my PayPal accounts into Quicken 2008 with issue. I scan and attach all my receipts to their transactions in Quicken, so they are easy to find and print out when I need to return something. The only reason I don't give it five stars is because Quicken still has advertising in the software, which I think should not be part of a product we have to pay to use. There is not other software that gives me everything Quicken does and I would be lost without it. I've NEVER lost a file and in 20 years Quicken has only crashed two or three times. I update my older files every other version or so, so that my files from 1989 can be opened in the 2008 version. The software is AMAZING, and the Home and Business version at this price is a great deal. You be the judge, not the rantings of problems I've never seen in 20 years of daily use or unusual computer issues of a very few.
 Avoid Quicken April 23, 2008
terablogger (Houston, TX)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had to give up and stay with MS Money 2007. It was easy to set up Quicken as it downloaded data from financial institutions ( but each institution had a different time frame it supplied from 3 months to 18 months, making historical calculations with Quicken worse than useless) , and after doing it the first time, subsequent times, it claimed no new transactions from Bank of America (untrue), and totally bollixed up transactions from TIAA-CREF. Then its built in graphics were flat unacceptable and unuseable with the "My Accounts" window refusing to stay as top window, but with elements of underlying window being redrawn on top of it. Also it kept nagging me to use their pay services that I get for free through my banks. All-in-all I grade it a D-; and can not recommend it.
As so many say ... Quicken just keeps getting worse! May 14, 2008
Joe Cool (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can't adequately express just how dissapointed I am in this new version of Quicken. Like so many I've been a loyal user for years - ~15 years in my case - and for about half of that time each new version got better. Then things started to go downhill. Several times I have tried new versions only to quickly return them for the 30-day money-back guarantee. Now I had to upgrade from 2005 to 2008 to maintain data download.
Sadly, 2008 is awful. My data was corrupted in the conversion process, but this didn't become clear until after I'd been using it for a week. Now reconverting the old file and reenter all that data would be painful - and I should never have to do it in the first place! Online downloads are broken. Old features that I valued have been removed. Existing features have been modified in ways that make them less useful. There are no REAL new features - just cosmetic changes that I would just as soon do without.
I'd give it 0 stars if Amazon would let me!
I don't know what to do now. I'm fed up with Intuit and Quicken, but it seems I have no where else to go. Money sounds just as bad if not worse, and I'm not aware of any other alternatives. If you know of one, post it here. I'm ready to move on!
 Run away! May 19, 2008
Brian Smith (West Chester, OH USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been a loyal Quicken user for over a decade. I have paid hundreds of dollars in upgrades use Quicken to manage all of my finances. However, The product and support have steadily been degrading. About four years ago I stopped buying upgrades. I was on Quicken 2005, which was stable and working great for me. I stopped updating Quicken because I didn't need the new features and every time a new version came out there were horror stories about how they handled/didn't handle on-line transactions.
I use PayPal every day. At first the new Quicken 2008 way of downloading the transactions was great (that it after I figured out it had duplicated all the transactions I already had in Quicken). No longer did I manually have to go to PayPal to download a QIF file. I could directly important from Quicken. But, suddenly after April 30th, I can no longer download transactions. To make matters worse, PayPal has no idea how to solve the problem and Quicken 2008 cannot import any tab delimited, comma delimited or even QIF files. So, now I have no way to get my PayPal tranactions into Quicken.
On top of that, after paying for an upgrade, Quicken will not provide telephone support free of charge anymore for many types of questions. And, you cannot call them. You have to fill out a web request, wait for them to call you, then they tell you if they fix your problem it'll be $24.95.
I'm sorry I upgraded to 2008. But, Quicken cut off the ability to even download transactions (not just support) to anyone who didn't pay the ransom.
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