Why I buy this one ?
- 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

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What our customer's say!

"They want you to do all of the work to find & fix their bugs!!!", There are several bugs that they haven't fixed yet. They could update your 2008 with the fixes, but they want you to go online, find the problem from over 200 listed and then try to fix it yourself. If you are not already tied into the Quicken web of products, buy something else, and save yourself a head ache.

I WOULD NOT reccomend this product to anyone else!!!

"Quicken 2008 Home & Business ", just what I need, mostly selfexplaining and saving a LOT of time (and bandwidth)... I used to program my bookkeeping files in EXCEL - but Quicken can do it better - a LOT

"Painless but (unfortunately) necessary upgrade", I upgraded from Quicken 2005 Home & Business today because all the download features would stop working tomorrow (Intuit's policy is to disable download capabilities after 3 years). The upgrade and required file conversion were quick and painless.

On starting the new version 2 credit card accounts would no longer work with "web-connect." It turns out that these two accounts could now be used with (the much more convenient) one step update process. After spending a few minutes on configuration the accounts now update with all the others. A little confusing but a nice touch!

I experienced no problems with flickering screens despite using a wireless mouse and Microsoft's mouse software. All-in-all a good experience. I would have awarded 5 stars except that the only reason for upgrading was to avoid loss of functionality per the Intuit license agreement.

"Quicken FAILS", I have been a quicken used for 10+ years. Also use quickpayroll(was quickpay and was morphed into quickpayroll years ago). I am a busy business owner and deal with lots of various colleagues, suppliers, etc for 27 years. The intuit organization is perhaps THE very poorest organization I deal with, not responsive, crappy products, lots of bugs, I am SICK AND TIRED of their products. Wish I NEVER would have "upgraded" to Quicken 2008. I am not looking for a better software to replace both. I think Intuit will go the way of AMC, Eastern Airlines, etc...

"Avoid Quicken", I had to give up and stay with MS Money 2007. It was easy to set up Quicken as it downloaded data from financial institutions ( but each institution had a different time frame it supplied from 3 months to 18 months, making historical calculations with Quicken worse than useless) , and after doing it the first time, subsequent times, it claimed no new transactions from Bank of America (untrue), and totally bollixed up transactions from TIAA-CREF. Then its built in graphics were flat unacceptable and unuseable with the "My Accounts" window refusing to stay as top window, but with elements of underlying window being redrawn on top of it. Also it kept nagging me to use their pay services that I get for free through my banks. All-in-all I grade it a D-; and can not recommend it.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Save your PATH before installing!!!", I upgraded from Quicken 2005 to 2008. I had a couple issues you should know about if you're planning to install/upgrade:

After installing, my PATH system environment variable was truncated to just the most basic: '%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem'. All the paths added by all my program installations were blown away. I only figured this out after my Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m started to blue-screen when trying to connect to a wireless network. It turns out that many programs stopped working, some completely. This is a horrible bug, and not the most obvious thing to look for when you have problems. So, if you have not yet already installed, PLEASE save your path so you can restore it afterwards: Right-click 'My Computer'; Click Advanced, Environment Variables, select PATH, click edit. Copy the value, save it in a text file, so you can restore it after the install.

As for the Quicken 2008 software itself, I guess I'm happy enough, but there are some disappointments. I was hoping to use one-step-update with my bank's checking account, but my bank uses an 'enhanced-security' login process which 'remembers' your computer with a cookie; if you don't have the cookie (quicken one-step-update does not), it prompts with one of three 'challenge' questions. Quicken is not smart enough to remember the answers to these, and so every time it connects, it prompts for an answer to one of the security questions; in fact, with multiple accounts (checking, savings, credit-line), it prompts once for each account! Definitely NOT convenient. So I continue to manually download account activity, which now has added one more step --- a 'One Step Update Summary' window always appears after each download, so I now have to close that. There is a checkbox at the bottom: "Show this dialog only if there is an error", but no matter how many times I check it, it always shows the dialog.

Other than that, I'm happy enough, and continue to use it much as I used the 2005 version.

"I keep hoping...", I'm a Quicken Veteran. Been with them since 1990-91. Originally using it on a Mac, but then moving over to the PC a few years later.

The early Mac version was solid as a rock. I used to rave about how it had to be THE best software purchase I have ever made. I told everybody about it. I was a fanatic. It was simply awesome. Software that did what it said it would do, did it well, was very intuitive and was a model of what software should be like. As a software developer myself, it was a great role model.

I think the last version of Quicken that I was happy with was Quicken 98. Since then, I've just gotten more and more frustrated with the product. Generally, it works for me (I'm on 2007 right now), but the interface is not as simple and intuitive as it used to be. I've got plenty of screen real estate, but Quicken forces me to use it in a very wasteful way. I would really like to have more than one account up at a time. (Does anybody else remember the days when quicken let you have multiple account windows open in different windows?)

I feel as though Quicken has morphed from it's earlier "perfection" into a clumsy tool for managing finances and it's trying to be a platform for trying to sell lots of other Intuit products and services. They've cluttered up the menus with other things I just don't need and that have little to do with managing my money.

There is a menu option that lets me apply for a Quicken Credit Card. I don't get enough offers for credit cards in the mail already? You're going to pitch me one from within your software? Of course, I clicked on it, and up pops a window that gives me an error "A system error has caused a delay in processing your application. Please try again later." Kind of sad really.

If anybody is listening and even cares, here is what I want to see in Quicken 2009: NO NEW FEATURES. I want to see the Quicken Team clean up their act. Focus on making the product super easy to use again. Bring it back to the way it was when it was a nimble and helpful program. Make sure I can use keyboard shortcuts in the check register where I do most of my work. Get rid of the quirky behaviors. Focus on quality. No new features... lots of quality. Make this solid as a rock and fast. Let me work with more than one register window at a time. Clean up the menus and get rid of all the entries that are trying to sell me more services. Leave that on your website. If I want to buy something, I'll come looking for it.

Please give me a product that I can once again rave about, instead of getting an ulcer worrying about whether or not I should upgrade and risk data corruption or losing the ability to do my online banking.


"Do not buy this product, unless you plan to reenter ALL your data", I do not normally write negative reviews, but this product instills a level of rage in me that nothing else can approach. My 84 year old father chooses to use this product; he has been a Quicken customer since it first came out (when it was a decent product). It has caused me endless heartburn because with each new upgrade or internal hiccup, I spend hours of time trying to repair the damage to his records. Unfortunately he purchased this new version of Quicken and he forgot to backup the files he has that go back YEARS. His goal was to do his taxes with the latest software. A reasonable decision unless you choose Quicken 2008. So, what happened?

After he installed the disk using the automatic install, the system cheerfully said it was finished and then asked to be restarted. When restarted it simply hanged, never to get past the Quicken 2008 logo. He called me asking how he can get customer support that Quicken promises on the box. I had to (via remote PC, because he lives 7 hours away) go through a veritable thicket of Intuit web pages to get to the point where I could submit a request via webmail to have someone call him. There is no customer support phone number, just the cheerful advice on the Intuit web page that this puzzle palace approach to accessing customer support "is a new feature!"

He spent two days, for a total of over 4 hours, talking to a number of customer support reps in Mumbai before he finally found someone who could speak standard English. That person was helpful, but the best she could do was get the program running and then restore his corrupted files to somewhere around 2001 (I kid you not).

He was about to start keying in all that data again, going back years when I suggested he let me try bring back the data I last backed up on a USB drive late January this year. (I use Acronis 11 Acronis True Image Home V11.0, I highly recommend it). I managed to get the file back from late January 2008 via Acronis and Quicken 2008 appears to have converted it successfully to 2008 format (BTW, why the hell does Quicken have to convert files to some new format EVERY YEAR!!!).

So my advice is this, do not buy this product. If you do, be sure to make a backup of your 2007 (or earlier) Quicken files, and burn it to a CD. DO NOT simply backup the files using Quicken and expect Quicken 2008 not to try convert them. Although I cannot swear to it, it appears to try convert all your backups automatically to 2008 format during install. The result? You lose it all! Hold on to that CD backup and keep your old Quicken install disk on hand, just in case.

Intuit should be ashamed (or better yet, sued).

"No better then 2006", I upgraded from 2006 to 2008 because it said it was finally compatable with PayPal - able to download transactions as It does with my ING and EMEX, etc.. No; it does not!

I spent nearly a half hour of cellular minutes with a PayPal rep whose first language was not English, trying to make this work. It does not work.

There was no real help from PayPal or Intuit, PayPal apparently requires a fee based upgrade, though I did not explore those options any further.

I use Quicken almost daily for personal, business transactions, rental income, stocks, credit cards, bank accounts, and etc. so I know it pretty well. Beyond the PayPal fiasco, there is no significant enhancement with the upgrade; just bells, whistles and ribbons of little value.

""Upgrading" from 2005 not much of an upgrade", This is a comparison of Quicken Premier 2005 vs. the home portion only of Quicken Home and Business 2008.

I bought this product because I had been using Quicken 2005 and Intuit will "no longer be supporting" bank connectivity for that version later this spring. Overall, I have been very disappointed with the lack of difference between the two versions.

New features I have found useful:
1) a _slightly_ better way to budget
2) a way to label an account a 529

I expected that the financial overview page would be improved, however,it seems about the same to me.

In summary, it was definitely not worth the money to upgrade, except that by discontinuing the bank connectivity (the most important feature, I feel) we are forced to purchase the new version.

Saying that, I have been using Quicken for almost a decade now. I love the product and am willing to shell out the extra cash, even though it irks me, in order to continue using it. Quicken is essential to my personal financial life and has been for many years.

Liz
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