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Summary: Quicken Deluxe 2003
Review: I was a loyal quicken user that started using Quicken before Windows 95 ever existed. That loyalty is ending with this version of Quicken. Every Time I start Quicken I keep getting an error saying "Online setup is missing and to go to [website] to see if this is a server related issue or try reinstalling quicken". I have reinstalled Quicken 5 times this is only a short term fix. Another problem is quicken will not always minimize and restore the quicken program window properly and can make other program windows misbehave until you close the Quicken Program. The reconcile feature seem to mess up previous reconciled sessions wanting you to re-reconcile your entire account. The program can crash when making a report. It would be nice if Intuit would fix their current 2003 software before trying to sell me a 2004 version.
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Summary: One star is too generous
Review: Quicken support simply doesn't exist. My Q2003 suddenly started telling me it was not the default financial application and wanted to know if it should be. No amount of answering yes or no stops that damned message from coming up every time Quicken loads.So check their website for hints, right? Wrong! Run a check for clues and you get "page not found!" At least half of the things I tried to find resulted in web-page errors of some kind. I'm more likely to find a solution with Google than using the Quicken website! Then an offer to help for a fee! No way, Jose, am I going to pay a company for support if they can't even get their website in working order.
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Summary: No worse than MS Money
Review: I had been a loyal Quicken user for many years and recently received a discounted copy of MS Money 2003. I started my database from scratch and setup all new accounts. MS Money worked fairly well. It is frustrating when reconciling accounts to have the downloaded transactions already checked off in the reconcile screen when you are trying to check against a paper statement. I ended up with a problem that I could no longer download transactions from USBank using IE6. Eventually became so frustrated that I switched to Quicken 2003. I have tried the 2003 version of Quicken and have not found it to be as bad as many of the reviewers have stated. I ended up with the same problem with USbank and no one there seems to care about my plight. When I switched to Quicken 2003 the process of converting my data was painfull. One account at a time. My mortgage accounts didn't convert properly. At least MS Money seems to have a facility for converting Quicken data, Quicken should do the same. The interface is a little cluttered as both MS Money and Quicken are full featured. I think that rather than focussing on doing a few things well they have tried to do too much and have lost out on what made them popular in the first place. It is annoying to have a constant battle with the Quicken Online check-boxes. No I do not want my data available at Quicken Online. Really... No, still don't. If you miss a check-box even once, now your data is at Quicken online. Not sure how to undo that.
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Summary: Even more problems than Quicken 2002
Review: I was hoping that Quicken would finally get around to correcting how the software computes capital gains on stock transactions. Like Quicken 2002, the 2003 version may give you an incorrect capital gains report on stock transactions entered, especially if you do a lot of investing, short sales, transferring of assets in accounts, etc. I doubt Intuit will come to your rescue if you make a mistake on your tax returns using their erroneous reports. As for tech support...good luck!
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Summary: Buggiest program I've ever used!
Review: Horrible software! Don't buy it! What happened? Quicken used to be a pretty good program, but now it is incredibly unreliable. Every time I try to edit something it crashes the program; I need to delete the item and recreate it. All the bell and whistles are no good if the program doesn't have basic reliability!!!!
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Summary: Makes me want to cry
Review: I wish I had read the reviews before I bought this frustrating, inadequate product. I just purchased Quicken a few weeks ago and have spent over 80 hours trying to set it up. Granted, I'm trying to capture six months prior financial data so that I can do budgeting, but this has been ridiculous. Most of my data was downloadable from my bank, yet most of the time has been spent trying to find workarounds to the programs shortfalls and bugs. Credit card payments show up as income, changes I've made to categories are wiped out when I reboot, and I can't get a simple monthly average for spending. Technical support chat online has been slighty helpful, when they don't just give me some irrelevant suggestion and cut me off. Now that I finally have all of my data entered, I am so, so disappointed in how it handles the info. The reports are rigidly organized and don't even give me what I want. I can't believe the amount of time I spent on this. And, for the record, I am quite adept at using and learning computers and new software. This program could drive a newbie over the edge.
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Summary: Love it love it love it
Review: This is the best personal financial management software available, hands down. The new changes in the upgrade are a bit annoying, such as a totally new "home page" that is difficult to customize and reports that have been made so "easy" that they are difficult. But, other than that, still the best!
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Summary: It works for me
Review: I bought Quicken 2003 last fall. It is my first Quicken upgrade since I started with it in 1997. I was able to import all my old data without any trouble. The interface is different and it took just a little while to get used to it. I'm happy with the program now and use it every day to keep track of my small book business.
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Summary: User since 1987 sent this back
Review: Intuit is heading in the wrong direction. Yes, new users will probably like this product. Old timers who have suffered through endless "upgrades" only to discover dropped features and bugs will be better served waiting for 2004. Unfortunately, I tried migrating to Money this year only to get a nebulous message stating that it encountered errors converting the Quicken data. What data and how many were not specified. Since I have stock transactions going back to 1987, I can't risk losing the data (unless I'm prepared to lose the ability to track investment performance and have access to basis information for future stock sales.) I won't bore you with a list of lost features or bugs, but a question for you euphoric reviewers: Can you cut and paste address line info from the Check Writing window? Seems trite, but I use this all the time and it stopped working in 2003.
As for Intuit support? HA! ...
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Summary: Excellent application
Review: I looked around at a lot of different applications and finally decided on using Quicken, it is by far the best application out there. The budgeting, forecasting and planning tools are excellent. One of the really impressive features that I didn't think it would was tracking all of my taxes, you enter the exact details of your pay check in to it and based on your W4 setup it determines how much tax you will owe/get back at the end of the year. The interface is very clean and works well. I haven't tried the online features much except to download the account activity in to it. One thing I didn't like was the fact that my bank wanted to charge me extra for using Quicken to interface directly with their site. I didn't find that to be worth the extra $10 per month, downloading the transactions along with the built in reminders works fine for me. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who wants to get a better handle on their finances. Oh, one more thing you will find that the application has little links all over it to different online services. Though I'd like to disable them myself if I could they really blend in to the back ground after a few days.
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