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Customer Reviews

Very User Friendly

2008-06-18
This had some changes from the previous version I was using (2006) but I really liked the new layout. The calendar feature is an added bonus I use a lot. Very user friendly and easy to search for "help" if you have a question about something.

Excellent product

2008-06-16
Quicken is excellent for personal finances. The only suggestion I would submit, for those that understand the P&L language is to call the "categories" as "profit and loss accounts". It took me a while to understand that. Otherwise, excellent help.

BE AWARE!

2008-06-10
I have been a loyal Quicken user for years. Starting with the 2007 Deluxe program, the program has been committing some pretty serious errors. The program downloads duplicate entries from online banking, credit cards, etc. Check the discussion web on Quicken online under "duplicate entries". Quicken has become so complacent that they have not bothered to create a fix for past customers and they apparently have the same problem with 2008 version. If I could give less than one star, I would. Until this problem arose, I would have highly recommended the program. Now, I would highly recommend that, until a fix is issued, the program is too unreliable and definitely not worth the hassle.

Quicken Deluxe

2008-06-05
The ability to program a list of future payments is very useful and it saves a lot of time. It makes very easy writing the checks that repeat every month.
There arn't many color selections for the screen and the fonts are a little too small for comfort, it takes getting use to it, specially after working for many years witht the previous version with larger fonts. I tried to increase the font size but did not find a way to do it. Maybe there is; if so, it is not very easily accessible.
I do not use the internet connection abilities of the software so I cannot comment on those.

Completely broken software

2008-06-01
I've used quicken for over a decade and it's always just sorta been fine and worked. I upgraded from 2006 to 2008 and right off the software's help system didn't work for some obscure ActiveX reason. After using the software for 4 months it just stopped downloading transactions from my banks (the main use case for me). When I called tech support I got an Indian call center where the person had difficulty speaking English and following my problem. Additionally I was told I would have to pay $25 to fix the problem. After 1 hour on the phone and no progress being made I politely excused myself and tried reinstalling the software. After the reinstall it completely doesn't work, just locking up hard when I try to restore my 4 months of precious financial data.
I'm a software engineer skilled in creating windows applications so I'm not just a confused and wayward user. I'm shocked that such a major software release could be so fundamentally broken. They simply should not be selling this as a viable product and I certainly would not recommend you buying it.

Horrible software sold by a truly evil company.

2008-07-09
For heaven's sake find some other software for your accounting. We've been struggling with Quicken for months, both at home and at my business.

This company spends most of its effort on reducing the choices consumers have so it has to spend little or no time on producing software that works.

Banks are forced to pay fees to use the ever-changing file formats, which means that both banks I use now no long support any sort of file exchange, so we have to enter transactions manually. I can see almost any point on the Earth for free in a few seconds using Google Earth, but thanks to Quicken 2008, I can't download a few simple numbers from my bank.

The worst program ever!

2008-07-04
This is the worst program I've ever used in my life. I am deeply sorry that I went ahead a couple months ago and bought this software. The program is not easy to use, and never updates my transactions successfully. I have spent hours trying to download my transactions and there's always one issue or the other. Moreover, I was sorely disappointed that in the end I would have to pay to use Bill Pay. The program is utterly worthless and had I known it earlier, I would have saved my money and made better use of it and my time by doing my accounts the old-fashioned way!

I give up!

2008-07-01
I have been a Quicken user for 14 years and Quicken also required me to upgrade in order for me to continue using Quicken Bill Pay (from Quicken 2005). So, I upgraded two months ago. I found Quicken 2008 to run so slowly it was barely usable. Then when I went to pay bills (which I have done for years with Quicken Bill Pay), Quicken kept dating my bills to be paid in the year 2269 (which I liked, but my creditors wouldn't). I have spent hours trying to solve these problems with Quicken customer service, but they can't figure it out and just continue to send me further time-consuming instructions to get the program to work. I won't spend one more minute on it and after 14 years of use and 14 years of data, I give up on this product! I am going to use my bank's bill-paying service.

I am converting to MS Money

2008-06-26
I have been a loyal user of Quicken since Ver 1.0 (over 15 years). But I have had it. I was using Q2006 more or less used to its quirks when I was forced to upgrade to 2008 in order to continue to download financial data. That was three months ago. It has been h*** ever since. There are bugs in the way it handles stock transactions, it gets caught in what appears to be an infinite loop when plotting net worth vs. time, the well-discussed flicker problem is absolutely horrible... There was a time when I swore by this software...now I swear at it. I spent all day yesterday transferring to MS Money (not an easy task). Frankly Money is not perfect but it appears to be more stable. I may take a look at gnuCash as an alternative. The bottom line...do not purchase Quicken 2008. I was a fool to not read reviews on Q2008 before upgrading...the truth is all over the net.

A disappointment

2008-06-24
I was very happy with Quicken 2006. I had to upgrade because some of my online banks no longer recognized the older version. It was a waste!! It'll take me a day to figure out how this version works. But NONE of the banks that I use recognize this version. A reviewer before me said it best, check to see if your bank(s) accept this. Otherwise you may be better off sticking with an older version