Quicken Deluxe 2010 [DOWNLOAD]

From: Intuit

List Price: ~~$59.95~~
Buy New: $37.99
as of 11/21/2009 14:09 CST details
You Save: $21.96 (37%)

Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

6 reviews
Sales Rank: 11

Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: Software Download
Edition: Deluxe
Operating System: Windows Vista

Model: 409948
UPC: 028287025165
EAN: 0028287025165
ASIN: B002PDPIF2

Release Date: September 16, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:

•	Quicken Deluxe 2010 helps you set personal finance goals and save more
•	Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
•	Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
•	Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year
•	Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation

Set personal finance goals and save more

Shows where you're spending and helps you see where to save
Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits

Features and Benefits

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.

Quicken Deluxe 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
Quicken Deluxe shows 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 finances by bringing your online accounts together--including checking, savings and credit cards. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

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.

Simplify taxes with TurboTax
Quicken Starter Edition pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.

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 Deluxe 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.

Customer Reviews:

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Go to the manufacturer November 18, 2009
Phil S (APO, AE United States)
I was perfetly happy with Quicken 2008, but having some performance issues with Windows 7. I thought installing QUicken 2010 would help. In restoring my 2008 data to 2010, I lost 10 years of data and payee information. I get no support rom amazon. They just want your money and I wasted money. From now on I'll just go to the manufacturer for products and not deal with an anonomyous merchant. GO to the quicken website and pay the extra dollars for better support.

1 out of 5 stars

Buggy as cr@p, get MoneyDance or GNU Cash instead November 15, 2009
Tony Polito (Greenville, North Carolina)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

[These comments are based on my continuing nightmare of lousy experiences with Quicken Deluxe 2008. This software, which has been getting continually worse since 2002, couldn't have possibly improved since then ... ]

For me Quicken 2008 was a forced/hostage upgrade from Quicken 2005. You "have" to upgrade since they've cut a deal with the financial institutions to cut off your online access with the institutions if you don't upgrade every three years. Just as found when I was hostage upgraded in 2005 from 2002, there's nothing more than a cosmetic face-lift, no meaningful fixes/improvements -- but there's even more bugs, problems and aggravation.

* Product now will not connect properly to Fidelity; no problem under 2005.

* Took forever to figure out how to turn off a "reminder" function ... that kept reminding me to pay bills already scheduled to be paid using the auto-pay function. 2005 did the same thing and it's not been fixed.

*You can turn off the product registration nag screen ... if you Google to find out how. Product does not have to be registered to use it.

* Un-reconciles accounts six months back every once in a while. I've been assuming that's being caused by a few bytes of bad data that occasionally comes from the financial institutions ... that the Quicken people have not properly coded so as to filter out. This bug also surfaced in 2005. Two weeks into 2008, I've seen it again already.

* You can't turn off the "free update/revision" nag screen unless you take the update. No such nag screen in 2005.

* When connecting, the completion screen used to show which accounts had new transactions to match and had convenient buttons next to each to take you directly to the account. Gone in 2008. Now I have to look through every account each time to see where transactions might have been retrieved.

* Icons everywhere attempting to peddle other unwanted Quicken products. One of the 'product improvements' in 2008.

* Doesn't handle stock distributions correctly (since they were not actually paid for); keeps generating error messages when you enter the correct posting of no cost incurred. Same problem in 2005.

* Tricky screens/checkboxes/prompts that try to bait you into using/enrolling for QuickenDot services when you don't have to or need to. Users that did so now post complaints they can't undo it and that the QuickenDot server is constantly down, causing problems/delays when trying to connect to other accounts using a one-step update.

Yet another company that's grown totally complacent about product quality while wallowing in its assured-for-the-moment revenue stream. It will bite them hard in the long-run. Postings indicate similar complaining regarding the major competitor product, Microsoft Money. If history is any lesson, there's no reason to suspect that these software products will ever get better under these conditions. Some other product will have to steal their customer base before they wake up and smell the coffee.

If you are not already committed to either of those two products, take a good long look at open source software such as GNU Cash.

[Update: April 15, 2008] Does now connect to Fidelity ... occasionally. When I opened the portfolio area today, the entire computer screen flashed with confusion and the product crashed. 2005 never once crashed. Still flashing but no subsequent crashes. Who knows what happened. Not me. Apparently not Quicken programmers either.

[Update: July 12, 2008] Connects to Fidelity now more or less on regular basis. Software still flashes/flickers routinely. Also slow to load, apparently trying to read every single record into RAM, regardless of age. Pop-up screen this morning stating "We've noticed you are not downloading your current Quicken Visa/MasterCard transactions, click here to ..." I don't have one. Obviously a deceptive come-on intended to trick users into the application process for a Quicken credit card. Nice. Still constantly beg-screens me to take the latest software update.

[Update: October 18, 2008] Just downloaded this week's financial transactions and Quicken wiped out four months of reconciliation on one of my credit cards ... again.

[Update: January 10, 2009] Tried to change the amount of an annual repeating payment. Refused to accept the change with the error message "You must make this change and sign on no later than six days before scheduled payment." Payment was set for April 4, 2009, almost three months in the future. I had to delete the payment, log on to make the deletion take effect, then enter the payment all over again for the new amount, then log on again to make that payment take effect. And when I tried to log on I rec'd an error message stating an Internet connection was not detected (a message I get rather often despite my always-on broadband). Luckily I can choose the "Ignore" button and it will go ahead and connect. Quicken programming staff = worthless carpetbaggers.

[Update: March 5, 2009] Wanted to stop an ongoing monthly repeating payment where the next scheduled payment was already in place in my register for March 27. I edited in a change for "how many times" from "unlimited" to "1." In other words, I wanted to pay on March 27 for the last time. When I logged on to the bank the first time, Quicken canceled the March 27 payment. Now doesn't that take the cake--Quicken accounting/finance software programmers are unable to count up to one. And, as all too often anymore, the screen went wacko while I was logging onto the bank.

[Update: March 8, 2009] Quicken just UNreconciled one of my credit cards (again) back to the October, 2008 close. Luckily, its a card I don't use much. I suppose this has something to do with Quicken software coders not understanding the start of Daylight Savings Time.

[Update: March 27, 2009] The repeating payment change I referred to at March 5, 2009? The saga continues. When I tried to enter the NEW repeating payment, it wouldn't take. I entered it, connected to the bank and nothing happened. The payment did not show in the list of repeating payments or in the register. I tried deleting the payee entirely to start over, but Quicken wouldn't/won't let me delete that payee at all. It claims it cannot be deleted because there is a repeating payment in effect ... that would be the payment that is ALREADY canceled. Which means I can't cancel it so I can't delete the payee. To set up the new payment I ended up having to create an entire new payee to make the new payment 'take.' I had to put a dash in the middle of the account number to create the new payee since Quicken won't allow two repeating payments with the exact same account number. And I am still stuck with the old payee on file which I cannot delete at all. I had to call the bank twice just to make sure the durn payment is actually going to be made on time ... and made only once ... and for the correct amount. You would think there would be a way to force deletion of a payee. Then again YOU are thinking, Quicken programmers on the other hand are off somewhere slurping down a latte.

[Update: April 2, 2009] Have an established monthly recurring payment of $[...] and would like to change it to $[...]. Enter the Online Center, click on Repeating. There it is. Click on it then select Edit. Change the amount from $[...] to $[...]. Save the change. Seems simple enough. Log on to the bank. Result: (1) Quicken cancels the next pending payment, on April 19, of $[...]. So far so good. (2) Quicken enters a pending payment into the checkbook register for $[...] dated May 19. Huh? What happened to my April payment? God only knows what will happen if I tinker with this recurring payment any further. I will write a paper check for one month ... and hope for the best. A[...]

[Update: July 14, 2009] Quicken is popping up a screen telling me I am overdue on a July 10 payment to a vendor for $[...]. The register shows the payment was made and cleared on July 10. And it's reminding me to schedule another future payment ... that's already scheduled. It's the same durn thing I was talking about in bullet # 2 at the top of the review, apparently it's a zombie bug that has now risen from the dead. Still begs me to take the Quicken software update constantly.

[Update: September 15, 2009] Quicken has suddenly started reminding me ... once again ... that certain bills are overdue, even though they've already been paid using the automatic monthly payment function. It asks me if I want to delete, pay or skip. I can only guess what havoc might occur if I delete or skip ... so I just keep waiting for the nag screen to eventually go away.

When Quicken goes under, I'm going to wear a pink tuxedo to the funeral.

5 out of 5 stars

Loved it and the Download option November 12, 2009
Just Anonymous (Georgia, USA)
My computer recently crashed due to a lightning strike so I've been rebuilding. I thought it would be a great time to upgrade my quicken as I went to Windows 7 on my machines.

I was dreading having to order the package and wait the couple of days to get it in the mail because my significant other wanted this little project done in one day. I was very happy to find that this product was available for download and at a very competitive price.

THE DOWNLOAD:

I purchased this and then got an e-mail to download it right away. It was installed in 15 minutes. It's only about 60MB download and it came down really fast over broadband. If you're on dialup, Amazon has a little application that you download that can help you do downloads overnight and if you drop your connection, you can pick up where you left off. Still, if you use dialup, you might just want to order the software.

Overall, I was happy with the download

PRODUCT:
If you're a quicken user, this is just quicken. They did a facelift to it so that it looks somewhat like Office 2007, bigger buttons at the top.

I'll tell you what I liked right off the bat:
a) I was using Quicken 2005 and integration with my Bank was very very seamless with Quicken 2010
b) Since I lost my data from the lighting strike, I wasn't able to test recovery or upgrading files (I'm sure that's standard)
c) I liked that the default is a transaction is in one line (in 2005 transactions by default took too lines)

Overall, it's Quicken - it keeps track of my books and integrates nicely with my bank. I like it. I can't say I love it because I don't love balancing my checkbook and no matter what software was out there, it would still be a chore to do this job that needs to get done. I have to say, Quicken makes it about as easy as you possibly can.

Get it, use it, it runs on Vista and Windows 7. It's stable and reliable. Don't get hit by lighting like my pc or all bets are off.

4 out of 5 stars

tried it November 8, 2009
G (bellevue, wa)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I'm an old user of MSN money old version and wasn't sure about quicken. I like it a lot. takes some getting use to. But, I like the online features on most of the accounts I set up. it's easy and one quick step. It's easy to navigate and customize screen. I would recommend it for someone who doesn't want to spend much time every month entering transactions and balancing their checkbook.

1 out of 5 stars

Really bad product. October 16, 2009
BabbleRush
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

I have been a Microsoft Money user and switched to Quicken 2009 when Microsoft announced they would discontinue Money. While Quicken 2009 was not perfect, it did what it was supposed to do (mostly). Given that I had a large amount of legacy Money data, I decided to try (as in buy) Quicken 2010 mostly for its in-built Money converter. I should have stuck to Quicken 2009 because it has been an incredibly frustrating experience so far.

Every time I tried to open a file, I kept getting the dreaded "Quicken Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close" error making the program virtually un-usable. I got in touch with Quicken support (after a 30 minute wait) who essentially asked me to re-install the software using the QcleanUI method. This seemed to work fine for about 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes that it worked, I figured it would not update some accounts which previously updated without a hitch (in Quicken 2009). I am now back to getting the dreaded quicken launcher error every time I try to open a file.

Bottomline, Quicken 2010 is plain un-usable at this point. Apparently, I cannot get a refund if the product is downloaded via Amazon. So much for 60-day no questions asked money-back guarantee. I hate it when things don't work when they should. Quicken 2010 unfortunately, does not work.

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