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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | | | | | Get the tools you need for smarter, simpler investment planning and portfolio management. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, Quicken Premier helps you more efficiently optimize your investment portfolio, simplify taxes and grow your net worth. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Package Length: | 7.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 71 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows XP | | Media: | CD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Includes all the features of Quicken Deluxe, plus powerful investing tools to help you plan for your financial future and grow your investmentsMake online banking even better--bring all your online accounts together in one placeConnect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single passwordSmart investment tools help you research, balance your portfolio and monitor your net worthOrganize your tax information and help maximize deductions
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 71 customer reviews )
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281 of 288 found the following review helpful:
 2007 with a few more bugs... Sep 10, 2007
By bbsilver
Save your money. Quicken 2008 is 2007 with a couple of changes. The changes aren't even flashy changes, just a few tabs added that you already had access to.
Bugs found in the first 10 minutes of using the software:
1. Mouse wheel does not scroll down on certain windows...only up. Known in 2007. Fixed on some windows, but not of others.
2. If you have a large data set say in your 401k, refresh times can exceed 30 seconds. Known in 2007. Not fixed.
3. No way to export as you could in every previous version. Huge problem on 2007. Not fixed.
New bugs:
1. Installation took over 1 hour. Not an hour of my computer thinking. An hour of switching on and off antivirus. An hour of rebooting. An hour of running in Admin mode. Honestly, I don't know how I got the software installed in the end. This is not a Vista issue. It is an Intuit issue. BITA to put it mildly.
Intuit is not listening. Customers are asking for simple features like quick response, the ability to manage savings bonds efficiently, and I have been a faithful Quicken customer since 1986 (over 20 years!). I'm tempted to take Microsoft Money up on their latest product. If I'm satisfied, this product gets returned. Microsoft Money will even translate the Quicken 2007 files.
Intuit...are you listening? We do not want to sign up for more credit cards and look at flashy graphics. We want manage our money in an efficient manner. Get your damn marketing (Evident by the marketing cr*p on your site. User opinion 2 weeks before the public release. Do you think we're stupid?) and business people out of the picture and let the engineers do what they use to...code useable software.
The only part of the software I am pleased with is the Sidebar Gadget. But again...I've only used it for 10 minutes. It hasn't crashed...yet. 2008 on the other hand 4 times!
I've made my point. 1-star. The lowest rating I've every given. Don't buy this software.
197 of 201 found the following review helpful:
If 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.
148 of 150 found the following review helpful:
Do not buy until they fix many bugs Sep 17, 2007
By R. Affleck
If you are a satisfied Quicken 2006 or earlier user, do not upgrade. Quicken 2007 and 2008 are very buggy and Intuit seems incapable of rapidly making fixes. For me the bugs in the Calendar, Tax Planner, and Online updates are so aggravating because they should so easy to have found in testing. Personally, I wish Intuit and Microsoft would stop this silly "every year" versioning and release new versions only when they have been properly tested, not when some artificial marketting deadline is reached.
92 of 96 found the following review helpful:
 Intuit & PayPal Fail to Integrate in Quicken 2008 Oct 26, 2007
By Richard Martin
Is it just me, or should advertised software functionality actually exist in the software if you buy it?
What am I talking about? I purchased the newest version of Quicken last night because I was visiting their web page on a separately related matter and noticed that they were now compatible with PayPal. "Including PayPal!" said the advertisement.
Hooray! As a long time PayPal and Quicken user, I was always upset that I had to jump through an inordinate number of hoops just to get my PayPal information updated in Quicken. It was the modern equivalent of manually filling out a checkbook register. So, when the opportunity came to eliminate the problem, I pounced.
Big mistake.
After several attempts at getting PayPal to talk to Quicken and to download my transactions, I found a problem with the software. A big problem. It doesn't work with the PayPal Security Key.
Anyone intimately familiar with PayPal or eBay has probably seen it. It is a small, gray, oval shaped key ring dongle. It has a single button on it that, when pressed, displays six numbers. You are required to input these six numbers into the PayPal or eBay web page whenever you want to view or change your account information. The numbers change every 30 seconds and use encryption technology to verify your identity with the PayPal servers.
In order to successfully download your transactions into Quicken 2008 from PayPal, you will need to disable it in PayPal. This could potentially expose you to a whole range of security threats that the key was designed to protect you against like phishing, identity theft, etc when using PayPal or eBay
Like any good consumer, I decided to call them on the carpet about it. After convincing Quicken that there was no way on Earth I was going to pay them $25 to troubleshoot an issue I had the solution for and they had the problem with, I managed to convince a technical support representative to set up a conference call with Quicken, PayPal, and myself.
You can just imagine what happened. PayPal indicated that unless the security key information was properly input and passed through to PayPal in a timely fashion during the Quicken-PayPal handshake, PayPal would deny any transaction download requests. Quicken indicated that PayPal was the only firm where they have seen this issue (doubtful - these types of keys are used by banks all over the world) and that because I was "opting for a higher level of security and service with PayPal", I am therefore at fault.
Great, blame the customer.
For what it was worth, they offered to refund me the money and let me go back to using Quicken 2007. That's was just what I wanted to do - spend my day uninstalling a software application that I will eventually upgrade to anyway, convert my Quicken 2008 files back to Quicken 2007 and then play the credit card reimbursement waiting game.
So, instead, I told the representative that I didn't need a refund and that I would be happy if they just fixed the problem. He said that this is a definite problem that will need to be addressed but that it is probably to be expected since they just rolled out the integration capability. The problem has been "passed up to software development" and hopefully to their marketing department because they are still claiming that it works with PayPal when.... well, it clearly doesn't.
Sorry Quicken, I'm not going to expose my PayPal or eBay account to theft for your 'One Step Update" convenience. I should get both security and convenience. PayPal, you are just as much to blame in this matter too. You signed an agreement with Quicken to offer transaction downloads. You two need to come together fast and figure out a way for users of both applications to maintain their security and the functionality we want. If that means my transaction downloads are routed from PayPal though an encrypted connection to a Quicken server that has been authenticated by PayPal before it is delivered them to me, so be it.
Until then, you don't have the right to claim Quicken 2008 works with PayPal because you can't even talk to each other on the phone. At the very least, you need to make a very clear and big disclaimer that it doesn't work with advanced security features of PayPal including the PayPal Security Key.
Let this serve as a warning to others. If you too are enticed by the offer of integrating PayPal with Quicken, think twice. Chances are, you want to integrate the two because you use PayPal or eBay a lot and want to record those transactions. You are probably the same person who exchanges a good amount of money in the process and invested in the $5 key dongle for a reason.
Don't trade security for convenience. In today's day and age, you can have both and you should expect it.
63 of 64 found the following review helpful:
Microsoft Money is Better Oct 16, 2007
By J. Briggs
"Keepin' It Real"
I have tried the Microsoft Money in comparison with Quicken. Microsoft Money wins hands down. Read the reviews on Quicken. For the past few years the majority of people working on Quicken is the marketing team. If Intuit wouldn't force you to upgrade by "sunsetting" their product, then you be able to stay with an earlier version that worked and didn't push avertising in front of you all the time. Intuit has stopped listening to their customers. They are just trying to milk the product for all its worth without investing anything back into really making this product work for their loyal customers. Well they lost me!! I am not coming back. Microsoft may be "the big bully" but at least their product does what it should especially when dealing with MY finances!
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