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Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]
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Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

2.5(70 customer reviews)
 
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QUICKEN 2008 HOME & BUSINESS RETAIL WIN CD. $20 Any User Mail-In Rebate Sticker on outside of box at Launch;$30 Turbo Tax/Quicken Rebate 11/23/07 - 4/15/08. Small box.

 
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Product Details
Product Length:8.0 inches
Product Width:1.0 inches
Product Height:6.0 inches
Product Weight:0.2 pounds
Package Length:7.5 inches
Package Width:5.4 inches
Package Height:1.3 inches
Package Weight:0.2 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 70 reviews

System Requirements
Platform:Windows XP
Media:CD-ROM
Item Quantity:1

Features

  • Perfect for home business owners and self-employed professionals

  • Track personal and business expenses in one place and see how your business is doing

  • Capture all your possible business deductions and see your tax deduction status throughout the year

  • Connect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single password

  • Make online banking even better--bring all your personal and business online accounts together in one place


Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:2.5 ( 70 customer reviews )
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67 of 71 found the following review helpful:


4Upgraded from Quicken 2005  Nov 28, 2007 By Eric Radman
I recently upgraded to Quicken 2008 from Quicken 2005. I did this since the online downloading capabilities for Q2005 would end in April 2008.
(Quicken's policy is to support the current version, plus the prior two years)

I've been a Quicken user & fan since 1994. Quite frankly, I'm not overly impressed with 2008. It has a new navigation bar, a new look and feel, and some (very minor) enhancements. Underneath the look and feel, it acts just like Quicken 2005.

If you're familiar with Q2005, you'll feel (almost) at home with Q2008. Obviously, Intuit is having a challenging time making a great product even better.

Overall, I can't recommend upgrading to Q2008 if you're not forced by Intuit. There aren't enough compelling new enhancements to justify an upgrade. It's still a great product, but the upgrade to Q2008 isn't a major improvement.





36 of 36 found the following review helpful:


1Stick with Quicken 2007  Jan 04, 2008 By Guybyny
As a long time Quicken user who upgrades to the latest release nearly every year I approached the 2008 version with great expectations. Integration with Paypal & personal cash flow tab amongst other touted enhancements.

First off, let me say that I have been using this software for nearly 3 months. I am up to Release 5. I would classify the problems with the 2008 version as follows:
1) Performance problems
2) Download woes
3) Data integrity /bugs

1) Performance problems - the program will go into spasms when trying to do anything as complex as adding a single transaction to the register. It will blink, sometimes for as long as 30 secs, before adding the transaction & returning control of the program to you. It is so slooooooooow that it can literally drive you crazy, that is if the flashing spasms of the program haven't sent you into epileptic shock first.

2)Download woes - Paypal integration? Not if you use their security dongle. Other downloads fail routinely with HSBC about 50% of the time due to "Quicken server issues" & with other financial institutions about 5-10% of the time. Much higher than I experienced with Quicken 2007. On the plus side I am now downloading from Janus, but that may have been possible in the 2007 version as well and I didn't realize it.

3)Data integrity & bugs - I'll only report my most frustrating here and that is in the tax planner. Enter a number manually & magically it disappears & defaults back to a Quicken estimate. After much trial & error I found a workaround - you need to exit the planner after entering a manual number, then re-launch it for that number to "stick". Totally unacceptable & unbelievable that in 5 releases it's still not fixed.

This stands in stark contrast to Intuit's arguably greatest software achievement ever - Turbotax 2007 - this years edition is the most perfect, elegant combination of interface simplicity, intuitiveness & functionality I have ever experienced in a software product. Note to Intuit - no more enhancements needed - it's perfect! Just repeat next year & the year after please. Can't the Quicken team borrow a few of the Turbotax programmers to fix this Quicken baby?

If you are running an older version of Quicken this may be worth the upgrade in order to get the cumulative enhancements made over the years. But for Quicken 2007 users who are satisfied, since there is no apparent way to revert your Quicken 2008 files back to 2007 format, upgrade at your own risk!

33 of 33 found the following review helpful:


1How Quicken Ruined My Weekened  Jan 07, 2008 By BuckyKat "Head Ring Master of My Own Circus"
I upgraded to Quicken 2008 Home & Business from the 2007 version on a Friday. I subsequently spent all Saturday and Sunday trying to recover from that disastrous decision. The bugs were numerous: unable to print invoices and some reports (others worked fine for some reason). Help file system was completely screwed up. It took me until Monday to get my accounts somewhat functional (on different accounting software), though I'm not out of the woods yet. Much more work ahead to recover from my Quicken nightmare. Oh, and you can forget about customer service. Their phone support system is an endless maze where you get to speak with NO ONE. Their LiveChat support never seems to connect with an agent. Email support is non-responsive. Don't let this happen to you.

155 of 179 found the following review helpful:


1If you're considering jumping into Quicken  Sep 14, 2007 By J. Nelson
You should ask yourself - "how can a piece of software be capable of generating so much hostility from its user base?" If you can't think up a good answer, go ahead and install Quicken, and you'll have an answer before long.

Some of my favorite quirks from Quicken 2006 & 2007 that I'm glad to see survived the upgrade to Quicken 2008:

Basic arithmetic errors: sometimes, if you edit transactions in the register, every subsequent transaction will get confused about the running total (e.g., change a $10 debit to a $20 debit, and instead of changing the running total by $10, watch in delight and amazement as the running total leaps by thousands, literally thousands, of dollars).

Basic reporting errors: go ahead and open the category list, and click the (very unintuitive) button to generate a report for the category _DivInc. If, like me, you have several years of investment transactions, you're sure to have dividend income, but Quicken will tell you "no transactions for this category." Funny, if you type _DivInc into the global search window, it will bring up all those transactions the report couldn't locate.

File corruption: sometimes, I like to imagine Quicken's routines as a bunch of angry little gnomes running around the traces of my processor and through the registers of my memory. This is because, every so often, the gnomes demand a sacrifice, and offer up burnt offerings of your data integrity to their terrible god of woe. I can't otherwise imagine how downloading QFX data from Hewitt Associates confused Quicken so - in the online center, it shows "number of outstanding transactions: -65,536" Yep, negative 2 to the 16th power of transactions outstanding.

Probably the worst part about Quicken, however, is trying to free your data. If you've got any kind of complicated financial picture (i.e, if you're over 25 years old), you won't be able to free yourself from Quicken's grasp, since the only way to get data out of the program is in QIF format, one measly account at a time. Funny, they don't support _importing_ QIFs, claiming, and I quote, "QIF technology is over 10 years old and was designed for technical support purposes . . . QIF Data Import requires many steps to download, is a poor customer experience and can lead to duplicate transactions and errors." That old technology is good enough for you should you dare to _export_ data from Quicken, however. They're going to make darn sure that you have a "poor customer experience" and suffer from "duplicate transactions and errors" if you try to take your data anywhere else.

24 of 24 found the following review helpful:


2Don't upgrade if you can help it  Jan 20, 2008 By Brian Goetz
I've been a Quicken user for almost 20 years, and have always loved the product. But this upgrade is, for me, a huge downgrade. I upgraded from Q2005 because Quicken has a policy of sunsetting online services after three years, effectively forcing you to upgrade. Rather than waiting until forced, I bought this in a discount bundle with TurboTax 2007. Big mistake.

I bought it at the same time I bought a faster new PC. But the subjective performance is awful -- much, much worse. I'm sure I'm pushing it hard, with almost 20 years of financial data in my data file, but it shouldn't be this much slower than Q2005 (on a system that is so much faster.) It is absolutely painful to use.

There are probably cool new features, but I haven't found them, mostly because doing anything is so painful. I'd downgrade (at least until absolutely forced to move back) if the file formats weren't incompatible.

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