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Quicken Premier Personal Finance Software helps you easily budget and organize your finances, maximize investments and grow your net worth..../ Quicken Premier 2010 [OLD VERSION] / quicken deluxe
 Provides comprehensive investing and planning tools. Click to enlarge. |
 Helps you make better buy/sell decisions. Click to enlarge. |
 Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year. Click to enlarge. |
 See your most important info in one place. Click to enlarge. |
 Getting started is a breeze. Click to enlarge. |
 Avoid late fees and penalties. Click to enlarge. |
Easily manage and grow your investments
Includes all the features and tools of Quicken Deluxe, plus:
- Organizes your personal finances--and makes portfolio management easier--by bringing your accounts together in one place
- Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals
- Identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments
- Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits
Features and Benefits
Provides comprehensive investing and planning tools
Easily track, analyze, and optimize your investment portfolio. You can see changes in assets, liabilities, and net worth with one click: we show how your investments are performing across all your accounts.
Helps you make better buy/sell decisions
We help you identify top-performing investments, so you can make smart decisions on buying or selling. For example, use Morningstar Ratings to compare mutual funds and see which ones best fit your investment management goals.
Shows you how to minimize taxes on your investments
Quicken Premier helps you get the maximum tax benefits on April 15th. It tracks cost basis, estimates capital gains, and exports your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.
Watch your savings grow
We make it easy to get on--and stay on--a budget. Set suggested spending limits and savings goals based on the information you enter into Quicken day-by-day.
An intuitive "Spending Planner" summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Check your progress at a glance, and quickly see where you have room to spend or need to save more.
We can also help you create customized plans to reduce/eliminate debt--and to save for a house, college, retirement or large purchase.
See where your money's going
We'll show you what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over to spend or save. Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year.
View your accounts all in one place
Organizes your financial information by bringing your accounts together in one place--including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites; now you can see it all with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.2
Never miss a bill
See what bills have already been paid, what's coming up and if you have enough left in your accounts to cover them--all in one convenient place. Set reminders to pay bills on time and instantly check the status of past bills.
Enjoy free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new Quicken personal finance software, free phone support is available. For more information, visit our Help & Support site.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you're not 100% satisfied, return your Quicken Premier 2010 personal finance software with your dated receipt within 60 days of purchase for a refund of the purchase price (return shipping and handling charges not included).
Save money and shop smart
Our free service--Quicken Picks--seeks out the best online coupons and discount offers just for you, on the stuff you care about. You also get cash back on all your purchases, helping you save even more. You can sign up for Quicken Picks anytime within your Quicken software.
Easily import from Microsoft Money
If you've been using Microsoft Money personal finance software, we can help you transfer your valuable financial information to Quicken.4 With our easy-to-use Data Converter tool, you'll be up-and-running with Quicken in practically no time.
What's New in 2010
Already using Quicken? Reasons to upgrade now:New--See your most important info in one place
The new Quicken home page puts all your most important financial information in one easy-to-understand window, so you can see how you're doing at a glance.
Improved--Find the tools you need, faster
The improved menu and toolbar make it easier to find the tools you need to help organize your personal finances.
New--Getting started is a breeze
It's simpler than ever to put Quicken to work for you--so you can reach your personal finance goals faster. With the new Guided Setup, you just answer a few simple questions; we'll show you how Quicken works, and what to do next. You'll see your total financial picture come into focus even sooner than you expect.
New--Avoid late fees and penalties
We help you avoid overdraft fees and penalties--by showing you how much you'll have left in your account until your next paycheck.
Improved--Check for accuracy
We've made it easier to review your transactions, so you can quickly spot anything that looks inaccurate or out of place. If a transaction requires follow-up, you can flag it with a reminder.
Improved--Get tips from other Quicken users
With Quicken's Live Community, you can get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. If you have a question about something specific you're trying to do, just look to Live Community on the right of the Quicken screen for the answer.
Quicken Premier 2010 [OLD VERSION]
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Customer Review :
Long time user: worst upgrade in a long time : Quicken Premier 2010 [OLD VERSION]
I wanted to fall in love with Quicken, I absolutely did. Not because I felt particularly strong about this software, but because I spent 13 years using Ms money and had over 16,000 transactions in my 38mb file. I had an attachment to Ms Money and was more than a bit irked when we found out that Ms was pulling the plug because it was not profitable.
So I went into Quicken with an open mind. I chose the excellent version because I had some (not a lot) of mutual funds, money markets and 401k equivalents. I never got a warm fuzzy feeling for the website descriptions that Quicken fancy would translate them over, so I went with the higher version and paid the extra money. I still am not sure if that was important or I needlessly upgraded.
My contact in converting my Ms money file was mostly pleasant. The agenda installed easy adequate and the conversion of the money file absolutely went quite plane (had read nightmare stories). But that's where the ease ended. I should also note that I had hundreds of "Scheduled Transaction Not Imported" and "Item Imported But Wrong Currency" error messages. Well over 400 of these total.
My next feeling was that of abandonment. I felt like I was dropped off in a strange city and had to find my own way on the bus. All the tools were there - but there were no easy videos or how to sheets for those of us converting from Ms Money. No step-by-step guide to tell me what to do. Most of the functions that I needed right away were there, but there's a whole distinct feel to Quicken that I'm not digging. I don't think it's very intuitive, but that might just be the new interface.
The 2 biggest things that sucked my ever-loving time when i upgraded were deleting all of the proposed new bills and fixing the transactions marked "Cleared" but not reconciled from Ms Money.
The bill qoute was terribly annoying. Quicken was picking out payments from 2002 that I had paid once, marked them as reoccurring and said I was 7 years late paying it. There was no way to delete a batch of bills, so I had to click on each bill, then delete, and then confirm the deletion. That sounds fine until you have to go through about 188 of them. That was frustrating and I inadvertently deleted a few of the 12 bills that absolutely carried over correctly from Ms Money. Time animated - but minor.
The cleared/reconciled transaction qoute was a wee more painful. I had read that partially cleared statements would pose a problem, but I didn't realize that meant anyone in a cleared status. For several accounts I had to delete all the transactions from the last statement and start over. I'm sure there was an easier way, but I didn't see it. This took hours for several accounts and a lot of referencing to my Ms money file. This should have been easier, but if I would have known to mark all transactions as unreconciled, that would have been more helpful.
Most of my accounts, after adjusting for those cleared transactions, came across more or less intact. There was a lot of double checking, and I'm still not totally convinced that everything carried over (I can't find any transactions before 2002, but that could be attributable to complete accounts) but for now it seems to work. I did have a qoute with my checking balance reflecting a balance of negative $303,800,325. I adjusted, updated, and it all the time displayed a negative $303,800,325 balance. ultimately I got the right balance by shutting down and restarting Quicken.
Other notes about dealing with Quicken 2010 Premier vs. Money Plus:
-The agenda felt sluggish the first day. The second day it was better, so maybe it was compiling or something.
-Something got messed up when transferring my foreign currency accounts. They don't show as transfers anymore in the middle of one list and the next. Just two separate transactions. I don't know how that's going to affect my reports.
-I can't find very many reports. I have to play colse to with this.
-I don't like the currency conversion part at all - Ms Money was far smoother with a drop down list. Now in Quicken - it gives me a calculator when I switch currencies.
-It took me far too long to outline out how to turn on the cents on the accounts menu.
-No frequent flier miles selection with Quicken. I didn't realize how much I would miss that feature.
-I'm pretty sure it resurrected every Payee I've ever used. Not necessarily a bad thing - but that might be time animated later.
-Registry layout takes a lot of getting used to - and the new layout for categories is awkward. I'm used to typing in the subcategory and having what I'm looking for pop up. Quicken's categories are more time consuming.
-My 401k and its cash list come up separately on the accounts list, while in Money they came up together. So now I'm going to have to stay on top of this more - or delete entirely and start over.
-There's a wee flag next to one of my accounts telling me that I have a bill due - I can't seem to make that go away.
And the differences go on...
All and all - I would never have switched voluntarily. This is clearly a functional piece of software, but I've come to expect more from my personal finance software - especially at $80 a copy. Money spoiled me for the wee details, the interfaces and even the easy-to-reach videos.
The only other thing that I absolutely don't understand is that using Quicken Online gave me access to prestige card associates that are not available to be updated from Quicken Premiere. Why can I get my Capital One and Charles Schwab balances and transactions from the online part and not through the desktop software? That should have been fixable.
After 13 years of using the same software I'm just not sure I'm willing to invest the time in retention this agenda as up-to-date as I did with Ms Money. I suppose this will work until I find a better solution, but all and all I think my hopes were too high. The agenda is fully functional, it's just not the same. So at the end of day 2 - I have to give it an "ok" rating.
