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Quicken 2008 Starter Edition [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $29.95
Our Price: $18.50
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Manufacturer: Intuit

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Intuit
EAN: 0028287016644
Feature: Designed for first-time users only, Quicken Starter Edition will get you up-and-running quickly
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Intuit
Manufacturer: Intuit
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Intuit
Release Date: 2007-09-09
Studio: Intuit

Features

Designed for first-time users only, Quicken Starter Edition will get you up-and-running quickly
Make online banking even better--bring all your online accounts together in one place
Quickly see where you are spending your money--and what's left over for you at the end of the month
Say goodbye to late fees. Pay your bills on time--and right from Quicken--using Quicken Bill Pay
Make tax time easier by categorizing deductible expenses as you go through the year

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: Terrific Product!
Comment: Quicken is definitely the most comprehensive and easiest to use of the financial softwares I've seen. It's a truly great product.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Quicken
Comment: An easy installation guide and straightforward operation guide makes this item worth buying if you wish to keep an eye on Income over expenditure. Gives an excellent itemised review of money spent.
Recommended.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Not as Expected
Comment: Because it was called "Starter Edition" I expected it to be easy to use. I was looking for a simple program to keep track of basic finances. This was complex and much too detailed for what I needed. It may be a great program for those who need what it offers, but I found it was a waste of money for me.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Easy to use software, but connecting with your bank can be complicated - but that's not quicken's fault
Comment: As this is only the "starter version" one could not merely export the data from the website in Quicken format and then import it into Quicken. If your online bank does not put the data into this Quicken's 2008 format it will not import it. That's why its called a "starter version", so heads up to those of you who usually import data to update quicken.

HOWEVER... Quicken is set up to actually do the downloading from the bank itself. In all honesty, its BETTER to let Quicken do the downloading because its more streamlined then exporting from your website and importing into Quicken.

Setting up this feature is where I had issues. I had to make several phone calls to get my online banking passwords to mesh with quicken. My online bank (National City) kept doing weird things. There were two passwords that one needed to log into the account, one for me to login to the online banking website, and then a separate one for Quicken to use to gather data. In the process of doing all of this the two passwords got confused, and I got very stressed. But after several calls to the help desk of my bank we got it all figured out and I now can EASILY do my banking with Quicken.

Quicken is a GREAT product and I'm very satisfied with it. I used my Dad's version in college but once I got my own computer I settled for Microsoft Money (it was only $10) and got so frustrated. It kept screwing up my data and was very confusing to reconcile, that I actually created my own program in Microsoft Access to do banking with. It worked wonderfully, but when I changed banks and had to reset all of the many complicated forms, queries and reports I'd created, I decided that I'd buy quicken, and I'm very happy with my choice.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Don't rely on it
Comment: I was only in need of something to make my written register obsolete, as I wasn't keeping up with it as well as I should, so I chose the Starter Edition. For one thing, you can't upgrade it to a subsequently-released version. That's annoying, but I'll get around it.

What really makes this product infuriating is Intuit itself. 60-75% of the time I try to download my transactions, Quicken reports that there is an error or an outage with the Intuit servers. I can understand the application needing to contact Intuit to update its bank list, but I don't understand why it would need to do it every time and why having that fail would require my transaction download to also fail. On the surface, it seems like some bad design.

There are a myriad of other annoying things that I would change, but everyone has those with every product so they're not worth mentioning. I don't know if Microsoft Money is any better, but I don't know that it could be much worse. If I had to choose between the two again, I'd definitely let price drive my decision as Quicken Starter Edition doesn't give any good reasons in its favor.

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Editorial Reviews:

First-time users: Get ahead of bills andmanage money easily

See what you're spending so you know when you can splurge. Get a better handle on your finances, so you always know where you stand.Quicken Starter Edition shows you where your money is going for the month -- soyou can see what you have left over. Ideal for first-time Quicken users. (Does not import existing Quicken data.)

Perfect for first-time personal financial software users, Quicken Starter Edition is designed to get you up-and-running quickly
Make online banking even better -- bring all your online accounts together in one place
Quickly see where you are spending your money -- and what's left over for you at the end of the month
Get ahead of bills -- track and pay bills on time
Make tax time easier by categorizing deductible expenses as you go through the year

See where your money is going (a.k.a. "money management")
Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are at for themonth or year. Quicken shows you what you have coming in, going out, and mostimportantly, what's left over each month to spend or save.

View all your finances in one place¹Bring your online accounts -- including checking, savings and creditcards-- together all in one place. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites and remembering multiple passwords. With Quicken, you see it all in oneplace and you need just ONE password.¹

Pay your bills on time
See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to h