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Quicken Home & Business 2010

From: Intuit

List Price: ~~$99.95~~
Buy New: $52.99
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Seller: theplace2b09
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

18 reviews
Sales Rank: 32

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.3

MPN: 409944
Model: 409944
UPC: 028287025127
EAN: 0028287025127
ASIN: B002LTJIAG

Release Date: October 10, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Quicken Home & Business 2010 easily organizes your personal and business finances
•	Organizes your finances and makes portfolio management easier by bringing your accounts together in one place
•	Shows you where your money is going by automatically categorizing your personal and home business expenses
•	Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
•	Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals and identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments

Easily organizes your personal and business finances

Includes all the features and tools of Quicken Premier, plus:

Easily organizes your personal and home based business finances, all in one place
Shows you where your money is going: automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses
Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits

Features and Benefits

Manages both your personal and business finances together in one place
Organizes your financial information by bringing your personal and home-based business accounts together in one place--including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites: see your complete financial picture with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

See where your money's going
Quicken Home & Business automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses. So it's even easier to track business expenses you paid for with a personal account.

Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal and business finances are for the week, month or year.

Always know how your home based business is doing
View your business profit and loss at a glance: Quicken Home & Business gives you an overall snapshot of what's coming in for the month, what's going out, and what's left in your accounts.

Helps maximize deductions and simplify your taxes
Captures all your deductions, including mileage and expenses for specific jobs, or even household expenses that you can partially write off. The business tax deduction summary lets you instantly see your tax deduction status throughout the year to help avoid any April 15th surprises. At tax time, save time by creating Schedule C reports for your accountant. You can also easily export your data directly to TurboTax to prepare your taxes quickly and accurately.

Simplifies estimating and invoicing
Easily create, print, and save professional-looking estimates and invoices for your clients and customers.

Provides comprehensive investing and planning tools
Easily tracks, analyzes, and helps you 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 goals.

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 Home & Business 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.

Never miss a bill
See what bills--personal and business--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 Home & Business 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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Does Not Support QIF file transfer November 20, 2009
Alla Gorenbeyn
I bought this product as I needed to convert from Microsoft Money. While a lot about it is different, it did not take long to transfer my file from Money to Quicken nor learn how to operate the new software. However, it does not support QIF file data transfer from financial institutions. It may be logical to not support relatively archaeic file system, but two of my banks where I do lots of transactions do not allow for any other format, so short of entering transactions manually I have no use of Quicken. Very disappointed!!! Will have to stick around with Microsoft Money till 2011. I will see then if other options become available or if perhaps my banks upgrade thier reporting methods. IOf anyone knows how to run around this, please let me know

1 out of 5 stars

A Poor Replacement for MS Money for Budgeting November 20, 2009
C. Penn
I purchased this product because I wanted a replacement for MS Money. I had successfully used Money Deluxe for five years for budgeting, tracking spending in tax categories, reporting on my investments, and gauging my ability to retire with the retirement planner. Since I had recently started a business, I was looking forward to using Quicken's Business Tools. After fiddling with this product for a month, I can say that it is absolutely worthless for budgeting personal and business expenses. In all fairness, I must say that the tax planner was helpful and the retirement planner seems competent, but Money's investment reports were easier to configure to get what I needed.

Quicken's Spending Planner was a huge disappointment and the main reason for my dissatisfaction. I spent a week with their email support trying to understand why actual spending was not showing up correctly in the report, only to find that the only fix was to delete several problematic transactions and their associated scheduled bills and re-enter them. Clearly, this is a program bug and Quicken would not acknowledge it. But what really irks me about the Spending Planner is that if you return a purchased item and receive a credit to your account, Quicken treats the credit as income, rather than as a correction to an expense. While this approach may comply with good accounting practices, for everyday budget management, this is a pain in the neck! Interestingly, the Spending Reports show net expenses. Another problem is that if you split a scheduled bill into a two parts -- a business expense and a personal expense, the Spending Planner cannot handle this and displays the full amount in the personal spending planner screen.

I am returning the software to Intuit, which fortunately has a 60-day money-back guarantee. I'm not sure what I'm going to use as a replacement, but I'm looking into Mvelopes, You Need a Budget, and dragging out the Excel spreadsheets like I did years ago for managing my investments.

1 out of 5 stars

Wont install on Vista and cant get help November 20, 2009
djm (Durango, CO United States)
Don't buy it. Well I'm an MS Money user trying to switch to Quicken. I downloaded and installed and it errored out during install. Worked with their support via chat for 2 hours in India and they can't figure it out. Tried everything under the sun. Tried again to connect to chat the next night and got disconnected twice after waiting 25 minutes each time in the queue. No phone help after 8-5 business hours. Cant return it to Amazon because they don't do digital returns. So now I have to try and call Intuit during 8-5 while I'm at work to get a refund. I've had my vista machine for 3 years and this is the only product I haven't been able to install.

4 out of 5 stars

Continues to be the best November 16, 2009
Andrew Halford (Manchester, MD USA)
Quicken continues to be the best money management for personal use and this version is more of the same. I don't like the fact that it won't accept the file import on credit cards and you have to have downloads available in the web connect format in order to import data directly. Other than that it covers all my needs for my personal and small business needs.

4 out of 5 stars

Worth the upgrade November 16, 2009
J. Tsai (Philadelphia, PA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I've been a Quicken user for almost 20 years and my last version was 2008. I was hesitant trying 2010 so soon after its release because I, along with many others, have been stung by bugs that have plagued earlier versions and have previously taken months for Intuit to fix. I'm glad I made the switch.

PROS
- 1 data file instead of 6 (plus an Attachments folder). It was about time! The single file at 101MB was a little larger then my previous files at 96MB.
- Much more resource friendly. The 2008 version frequently took up 1GB or more of RAM on my 3GB Vista Home Premium system. This version takes up about 1/10 that. The many accounts I have (credit card, investment, banking) and the size of my file are probably atypical so your resource usage may vary.
- Faster loading of the application and updating of accounts. Hitting One Step Update is MUCH faster than before. One Step Update was the one action that slowed my system down and upped the memory usage quite a bit under 2008 and earlier versions. It still ups the memory usage but not nearly to the extent of before.
- More stability. 2008 used to crash intermittently - during One Step Updates. It might be too early to tell but so far no crashes.

CONS
- As other users have mentioned, the UI hadn't changed much in many years. This version is certainly no exception. It's still intuitive enough for new users to get up and running quickly. I'm not sure about MS Money users though (I tried MS Money a couple years back and I was thoroughly confused!).
- Memory leak? Previous version have suffered from this so it's nothing new. When I first start this version, it uses 57MB of RAM. After having it up for an hour and running One Step Update a few times, the RAM usage went up to 140MB. The more updates I do, the more memory used without any signs of the program releasing said memory after the operations have completed.
- Yearly updates. They're always rushing a new version out the door every year and it shows. They should spend a couple of years fixing/overhauling things or throw more developers at it (i.e. have an elite team of developers working on a revamp separate from the team that does incremental annual updates).

Overall, if you have had resource issues and update problems, and/or like the convenience of 1 data file, then 2010 is worth the upgrade. If you're perfectly happy with your current version then there is no compelling reason to upgrade other than Intuit shutting off online updates for versions over 3 years old (2007 users will HAVE to upgrade to keep downloading transactions from financial institutions).

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