Quicken Home & Business 2007 [OLDER VERSION]

Customer Reviews

Strangling on its own success

2008-05-27
A software publisher like Intuit can't leave well enough alone. They'd go out of business if they did that, so they keep releasing new versions of products that have already reached perfection or something close to it. Or, as is the case with Quicken, the older versions simply worked.

Now I finally got around to upgrading to Quicken Home & Business 2007. It runs without crashing - but most of the new features seem to be advertising for Intuit products and services.

What used to be transparent features, such as downloading credit card transactions and importing them into your accounts is given a fancy name ("web connect") and obfuscated. Try looking up "qfx" file in the Quicken Help system. Nothing really useful. Try looking up "importing credit card data" and you get hundreds of results. It appears that they scooped up everything from their online forums and dumped into their help file. It doesn't work well.

I finally found the answer I needed: don't fix it if it ain't broken. Once I thoroughly learn this version of Quicken, I will not update again until there is absolutely no choice. If anything, either Intuit should bring out a version with fewer "features" or someone should seize the market opportunity for a product that simply works.

Jerry

Easy to Use for Home Finance Records

2007-12-29
We purchased this to keep track of our home budget and our small business accounting. It is easy to use, lets you see where all of your money is going, allows you to forcast your budget surplus and shortfalls. My wife uses this daily and she has no formal training in business or accounting.

Not as stated

2007-09-21
Before I purchased this product I went to their support sight to be sure I could import my existing data into this quicken version I down loaded the procedure and printed it. After purchasing the product and loading the product I found out the procedure is not allowed, it can only get transactions from your bank. When it does it is not accurate. I had to remove this product and go back to an earlier version of a different product one I previously owned.

Quicken Slow

2007-09-09
I have been using Quicken 2000 for seven years and only bought Q2007 H&B after upgrading my OS from WinME to XP. Q2000 cannot now be registered and quickly timed out. Q2007 converted the Q2000 files even on my backup hard drive. Not good!
Although Q2007 works the help files just come up as Java script files and Intuit has not been able to sort this out although they have tried hard to do so.
The user interface screens have become far to fussy and not easily customisable. The only gain I have found is better customsation of reports.

Quicken Home & Business 2007

2007-09-02
Purchased this product specifically for the stocks evaluator in the Investing Center. Was not disappointed. Product provided exactly what I expected.

A waste of your money and time!

2007-09-01
Life just got easier for small businesses and self-employed professionals. Quicken Home & Business 2007 now gives you even more control over both your personal and small business finances. Quicken Home & Business 2007 includes all the personal budgeting and investment management features of Quicken Premier software.

Quicken Home nd Business 2007 for Windows XP

2007-08-28
I ordered this item TWICE and I NEVER ever received the item from either party. I'm not very happy with Amazon about this. I was credited one of the items but the other one NEVER showed up as a credit on my Visa. BAD practice for your customers.

Don't buy this Software

2007-07-24
Man this company really stinks. I upgraded from 2004 hoping to get a better product but it has the same problems as before.

Can you believe I can't automatically download transactions from my bank's site?

Why else would you use this software then?

Oh and Good luck easily moving from a previous version. every Version of Windows gets better but quicken is stuck in 1969.

Really there must be something better. 10 years later and still buggy buggy buggy. I'm going to return this and use my old version. Heck with it. Did the same stuff and saves me $90.

What other issues I haven't found???????

I can't imagine all of the advanced features work for nothing nor would I want to spend 3 weeks figuring it out.

Quicken Home & Business 2007

Beware of unexpected costs

2007-07-17
I have been using Quicken for over 10 years and I'm fed up. There are problems with the program for sure, but my chief complaint is with their customer service which is outsourced to India. Recently my Quicken Home and Business program started crashing every time I tried to print an invoice. I called customer support and after a painful hour on the phone finally got someone who knew exactly what to do, ie delete a certain file. Then they charge me $25, even though their website says there will be no charges for known or unknown bugs in the program. Now the last time I looked, when a program crashes, that is a bug! But the customer support supervisor remains adamant that I owe them $25. And they knew exactly what the problem was, yet had no mention of it anywhere in their close to non-existent knowledge base. Seems like the Indian customer support is more concerned with squeezing extra charges out of you than having satisfied customers. I don't know if Microsoft money will be any better, but I will give it a try.

Great product for the home & small business user.

2007-07-11
I have been using Quicken since 1998 (Quicken 98 Deluxe), and finally thought that it was time to upgrade... I am so very glad that I did! I use Quicken for both my home and small business finances, and I'd be absolutely lost without it. It easily keeps track of all of my accounts - bank, credit, loans, and investment - and provides me with an easy way to keep everything organized. I especially love that it automatically downloads the transactions from the banks that hold my accounts - no more manual transaction entries! For the beginning user, it is easy to setup and easy to learn... you'll love it! I think that Quicken is absolutely invaluable and highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to better organize their finances!