Why I buy this one ?
- Comprehensive personal financial management software
- Optimize investments and maximize return; receive investment alerts
- Monitor spending with quick reports, charts, and graphs; stay on budget
- Find ways to save and invest; optimize returns and avoid April 15th surprises
- Investment-management tools for defining goals and balancing portfolio

What our customer's say!

"2006 premier proves usefull", I have been using the 2006 Premier purchased in late 2006. As you might expect you must install the disk mushware and then register the product. Then you get to the "update check" where my dial-up must download for hours the latest edition available for what was paid for. I do not know the history of Intuit, but I think it is comparable to the biggies in that the proliferation of product is no reflection on the evolution of quality. I mean I've trained my WIN95 machine to do things and would never dare to update fearing the demolition of the system.
Quicken does some things very well. I have only one preferred stock in my portfolio so no problem. I could never set up a corporate bond in microsoft and Quicken maintains the tradition. You must sort of push the transactions along manually. Quicken has a "Help". In addition, I purchased 2 books that allegedly fill the chasm of no support. Forget it. One book in its umpteenth edition apparently assumes the knowledge of the previous tomes. I think the umpteenth and one edition will review the currant updates and promises.

Quicken is a great help for portfolio management and I know people using the accounting software for a long time. My biggest beef is the inability to print a list of translations. When monitoring an account over a year with hundreds of various transactions. looking at a few through a narrow window is nonsense. The list of accounts does not go away no matter what you want to do. When looking at my checking account transactions, I doubt that 5% of the entire screen is work space for me. Like 'My Yahoo' the company promos can not go away. Carefully consider that Yahoo is FREE.

"Quicken - Don't Do It!", I hate to come down so hard on a program that is so widely used, but my experience with Quicken has been awful. At first I thought it was because I was simply used to other (easier to use) money programs. But I have suffered with Quicken for three years now and I am giving up and moving on.

The top three problems with Quicken:
1. Typing-in the date of a new year (for example moving from 2006 to 2007) automatically starts the new year and silently wipes out all cleared transactions for the previous year. This alone makes this (or any program) unusable. The one thing that no program can ever do is silently delete massive amounts of data without a confirmation, backup or even telling you it is happening. Because it is silent, you exit the program normally, create a back-up of the session and, in the process, overwrite your previous back-up. You lose all of your history with no way to recover it.

2. Reports seem flexible at first, but flexibility brings complexity. The problem is, there is no way to browse categories (their name for where you spend your money) and see a quick summary. You have to run a report every time you want to view an account or category. You can create them and save them, making it relatively easy to rerun them, but you have to rerun them. You can't simply browse and see the status of categories (how much did I spend on gas? food? postage? Christmas? etc.) nor can you quickly see which have had activity or not this month (handy for seeing if you forgot to pay a bill).

3. Creating split transactions is harder than it needs or ought to be - it is a click machine. The number of steps (or clicks) required to do simple things doesn't seem so bad at first. But once you start entering a list of transactions, you find it to be onerous. If a split is the same over and over, that's easy. If it changes each time you visit a store (like, say, Costco), it is a pain.

I am not a novice user. I have used personal computers since the early 80's for business and pleasure. No program has caused me the irritation and frustration that Quicken has. I have worked extensively with their customer support and they can't recover my data.

"Review of Quicken 2006", Easy to install, easy to use (as most Quicken products are). Too expensive for a year old version. Limitations with running separate files on the same PC that I'm still working on.

Bottomline: Quicken remains the industry standard for home and small business financial needs.

"Incorrect Securities Matching Algorithm", If you plan on using Quicken to track investments beware that they will assign improper prices for any security that you hold where you have more than one class of that security.

When you address the issue to Intuit you might as well be talking to a monkey, in fact you probably are.

I went to the extent of deciphering the Quicken OFX log which showed that my financial instituiton and quicken were downloading proper prices, but that the quicken pc software then matched those prices against the wrong security. The first respons I got just said that I could send them the problem again, the second said to go to the quicken web page to get the price, and the third told me again I could get help by either phoning them, emailing them, or doing a on-line chat. This was after my third email with detailed explanation, copies of their OFX log, and copies of their price files, all showing the problem.

I'll probably try money but given its reviews I am not hopeful.

"not so quick", This program is not easy to use. It takes a long time. Some of the information you want to add (name of some investment companies) you can't. I don't think I would buy it again.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Quicken Premier 2006", Great integration with my online investments and bank accounts. I really never liked Quicken or Money in the old days. I can not imagine being without this program.

"Investment functionality and customer service stink!", I just bought Quicken 2006 (Premier). I had been using Quicken 2000 and wanted to update my ability to manage my investments. I was dismayed by the bad reviews here, but couldn't find a product that looked any better, so I bought it and hoped for the best.

So far, I've been very disappointed. I have had nothing but problems with the investment management functionality. When I set up my accounts initially, each time I went through the setup wizard I got different choices for no good reason that I could see. Even though I own the same mutual fund in more than one investment account, the wizard wouldn't let me do this and I had to set up with the accounts with zero balances then go back and enter my transactions outside the wizard. When I liquidated one investment account and tried to transfer the cash to a new account, Quicken asked me whether this was a contribution to a 2005 or 2006 IRA, and there was no way to say that this IRA was ten years old. Then, when I tried to set up to download my account activity, the main reason I bought this product, Quicken would only let me set it up on some accounts, even though the accounts that don't work are all with Fidelity, Fidelity tells me these accounts can be downloaded to Quicken, and I have other Fidelity accounts that I have been able to download in Quicken. I suspect that the problem is that my husband and I have four separate accounts with Fidelity with different customer IDs and PINs, but I can't verify that. In fact, Quicken has a "PIN Vault" to let you store your PINs for downloading, but it only lets you store one PIN per financial institution, not one per account.

I've tried to figure out all of these problems, to no avail. I started with Quicken's help. No help. I went to their web site and searched the knowledge base. When I have found documents that looked relevant, they were missing. Then I tried live help. Their web site lets you type in questions for the investment center and submit them, but then you get a message saying that investment center questions are too complicated for live help and to try email. In the meantime, the question you typed in has disappeared, and you have to re-enter everything. Then, every time I've asked one of these questions through email, I'm told that I have to call their technical support line, which costs $25 per call.

This product and the so-called support that goes along with it are a disgrace!

Addition: I've been using the program for a while now, and found something that I cannot believe. One of the most important functions of investment management is to track your performance, but Quicken (2006 and the past few versions) don't track the performance of any investment that you didn't own as of the end of last year. I confirmed with Intuit that they used to have this feature, but it often had problems, so they just got rid of it. So don't expect to track your performance correctly if you've purchased any investments this year!

"Better than Money", I've been using Money 2002 since it came with my laptop. I decided to upgrade to Quicken 2006 Premier and it's awesome. In typical microsoft fashion, I found Money to be quirky, hard to navigate and the general interface to be not pleasing.

I have seen some people post complaints about switching from Money to Quicken, but I had no problems and switched 2 checking accounts, a savings account and a retirement account in 15 minutes. The only reason for me to keep money is for a record of old transactions.

As good as this program is, don't pay $80. Google it and you can find it for less than $40; less than $30 if you do a little research.

"A Pleasant Surprise", I wasn't very happy at being forced from Quicken 2003 by the sunset provisions. But with the $30 rebate for Turbo Tax and Quicken purchased together I was able to get a good bottom line price for an upgrade to Quicken 2006 Premier. Now I'm delighted with the asset allocation feature of Premier. As a believer in asset allocation of one's investment portfolio I was finding it extremely difficult to mechanize in practice. A single mutual fund frequently includes several asset classes in various proportions. Quicken automatically looks this information up for you, along with all your individual stocks. In addition, Quicken allowed me to easily enter the asset class breakdown for my savings plan at work. Now I have a complete view of my investment allocations and can make appropriate adjustments going forward. As a DIY'er I don't think I could have solved this problem by myself without resorting to the on-going expense of a financial planner. This upgrade was the best $30 I've ever spent.

"Beware of this product", I used and was happy with Quicken 2003. After being nagged into upgrading, I bought the 2006 version. What they DON'T TELL YOU is that it installs a proprietary version of QIF called OFX that will not work on many of your accounts. They charge the financial institutions for the privilege. They expect you, the customer, to pester your bank into using it!

What if Ford called your car in for a free upgrade recall but after you got it home you find that it will only work with a special FORD GAS? Would you feel a little ripped off?

This is what Quicken has done.

Worst of all, Quicken 2006 can no longer import some of my credit cards statements. I have to enter them by hand! With 2006, Intuit has removed the ability to import QIF for most accounts. Apparently, they want to lock in their customers and financial institutions to using their proprietary flavor of OFX (the replacement of QIF). This requires financial institutions to pay Intuit some fees and not all financial institutions agree. Why not use standard OFX? Note that Microsoft Money seems to not have this problem, because Microsoft uses standard OFX. I am no fan of Microsoft, but by being less greedy than Intuit they made a smart move here, and Microsoft Money now looks more attractive than Quicken, because it is more open.

I will be switching to MONEY.

Buried in the help data (where only a tiny fraction of displeased customers will find it) is the offer to accept the product back for a refund. I encourage everyone to do so. Duplicity should not be rewarded.