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Summary: General Quicken Comment
Review: I haven't upgraded to Quicken 2004 because it seems, from the reviews I've read here, to be even worse than Quicken 2003, a disappointing product. I had read last year's negative reviews, but upgraded again anyway, especially since I had been a satisfied Quicken user for years. Unfortunately, the negative reviews were right! Besides being sluggish, several standard and necessary functions of the application weren't even included anymore. Intuit basically shrugged. Sadly, the company seems to have lost it's way.
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Summary: They're forcing us to upgrade for online banking!
Review: Received an email from my bank stating that Intuit will soon be discontinuing online banking for Quicken 2000, and that I must upgrade to 2004 soon to continue to use online banking.Talk about forcing their hands in your pockets. I've not seen anyone mention this yet. I think it's abominable. I'm switching to Money.
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Summary: Quicken 2004 Deluxe is the worst software I've ever bought
Review: It's tough to express how disappointed I am with Quicken 2004. After using Quicken for several years, I was hopeful that the latest 3 years of development time (I upgraded from Quicken 2001) would've given them the chance to eliminate some of the existing annoyances and add some cool new features too! I couldn't have been more wrong.
The latest version has crashed several times, taking valuable data with it and leaving me with conflicting and duplicate results in my statements. During these crashes, it's also erased some of my online payees, so transactions which used to be scheduled didn't get sent out (because there was no payee information to send them to). I'm left now with broken data corrupted historical data but still bills to pay, and I believe that my only option to have a 'clean start' is to discard the several years of historical financial data that I've accumulated and 'begin anew' with either an older version of quicken, or perhaps some other product.
In addition to the overwhelming reliability and data issues, the user interface is cluttered, and poorly designed so that buttons that you'll have to click several times (like accepting transaction values) are tiny and placed right next to buttons that will 'automatically' do something that you may not want to do 'automatically' (like automatically accepting all without giving you a chance to assign them to categories).
Overall, it seems that Quicken/Intuit is now more focused on using the product to promote their new money generating features (Quicken online, quicken billpay,quicken mastercard etc) and is now just using their product as a way to try to force-feed us items that we don't want. I only hope that I'm wrong here, but given the direction that the product seems to be taking (away from making the product better for home users and more towards using it as a way to push their revenue-stream products on you), I'm not giving much hope for myself as a future Quicken user. (Does anybody know a good share-ware product that might be able to take us back to 'the good old days'?)
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Summary: I can't believe they how they changed it!
Review: What happend??? Quicken used to be so great and easy to use. The new 2004 is shockingly different! I would have never upgraded from 2002 if I new how bad the new interface was. I want my old account register back not that thing on the side this whole program should not have been released. I implore inuit to release 2004 in the old style or at least give us choices. No bugs, just a poorly designed program.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: I have used Quicken for about 5 years now. I opted to use Quicken Deluxe a couple years ago when I needed to use it on a more consistant basis. I have always liked the flow of the software and have gotten used to the "upgrades" Intuit has put into it. I have to say, after using 2002 for awhile now, 2004 is a lot different. However, I think this version is fine and I will get used to the changes in it. There are no pop-ups for Intuit products and I haven't run into any bugs. I would like to point out, I didn't upgrade from a my previous version. I made backups of my files and uninstalled all of 2002(Windows Uninstaller and deleted directories). When I installed 2004 it transfered all the old information into the new program and has worked fine.
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Summary: the worst quicken version ever
Review: I can't believe I didn't check Amazon for a full review of this product before purchasing it. I have also been a long time Quicken user and I just upgraded from version 2000. Past versions of Quicken were so solid that I could seemlessly move from a Mac platform to a Windows platform and the data file moved over without any issues. I have not had reliability issues with my build of 2004 Deluxe, but I'm so dissapointed by all the marketing messages popping up disrupting my productivity. Every menu has multiple opportunities to sign up for more Quicken services. Online bill pay, which is SUPPOSED to link directly to your financial institution, takes you through a required registration log-in screen for Quicken.com. I have ABSOLUTELY NO USE for Quicken.com and forcing this registration process is absolutely pointless. The ONLY way to work around it is to get a few screens into registering for Quicken.com, then hit cancel, then the online banking screen pops up behind. There are no menu options to disable this or set your preferred institution or even DESELECT quicken.com I'm so frustrated with this software as others have expressed. Had I known of these issues, I would have remained with my solid Quicken 2000 version but as I've been reading, this is a one way path, once you upgrade there is NO going back.
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Summary: avoid this ...
Review: Quicken seems to get worse every year. I made the mistake of buying 2004 premier (upgrade - or, more correctly, downgrade - from 2002). Asset allocation has [not always worked, and is] equally bad in this version. Kinda stupid that I have financial software, and have to use a spreadsheet to keep track of asset allocation (it has no knowledge of many asset classes - REIT's, growth vs value stock, gold stocks etc). It will not let you create your own asset classes either. THe help system is completely broken (I cant get it to open the help window). Options trading and reconciliation of those with brokerage houses is the most non-intuitive. Of course, any time you try to get support from them, they refer you to paid support. The add on marketing which is present everywhere is very irritating. I'd switch to money, but I cant seem to export quicken data to it.
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Summary: Don't buy this product - worst Quicken release ever
Review: Save your money. I just uninstalled Quicken 2004 after 5 frustrating days and went back to the 2003 version. I have been a loyal Quicken user for as long as I can remember and plop down the $$ to upgrade each year. Whoever was in charge of this release should lose their job. One Step Update flat out does not work in 2004. The product hangs the system for no reason all the time, and seems to be just slower than any previous release. Further, I was unable to find a single new feature of note to justify the $59 upgrade price. If they fix the bugs, especially One Step Update, then maybe I will give it another try, but so far this looks like an absolute waste of money. I am going to give MS Money a good hard look.
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Summary: Very Disappointing Product
Review: I have used Quicken for many years. I also use Quickbooks. So, I am a pretty sophisticated user. I won't quibble about the Quicken interface. My real issue is that I use the program mainly for tracking investments, including stock options (puts and calls). After all these years, I have many defined securities including many, many options. Suddenly, the program will not let me add a new security; to do so I must rename an old security with the security edit feature. Quicken online support won't answer even the question of whether or not there is a limit on the number of securities that you can have -- they refer you to the $1.95 per minute support service. Also, the program was touted as importing option prices. It doesn't. As an attempt to "patch" the security name problem which I suspect is an undocumented limit on the number allowed (with a step that may or may not work, but will apparently cost me the ability to track financial history), I tried to use the "new year" feature to try to cut down the file size. But the program refuses to copy my file or make the conversion. I am now going to try Microsoft Money to see if that will work. I am generally anti-Microsoft, so this move pains me, but Quicken apparently no longer serves my needs.
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Summary: Listen to us!! Don't upgrade; save yourself while you can!!
Review: What a huge mistake to upgrade...I've been using Quicken for 12 years, (just upgraded from Quicken '98) and this version is a shameless leap backward. Everything is less elegant, and there is Quicken marketing taking up screen space at every turn. All the bugs have made online stock price updates completely out of the question, and worse, Quicken has acted surprised that people are disappointed!! Now that I've had it for several weeks, I'm stuck because any entries made since the so-called upgrade can't be restored into an older version.
Do yourself a favor and just stick with whatever version you're using. There is nothing here that you need, and take it from all of those of us writing...RUN WHILE YOU CAN!! IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR YOU TO SAVE YOURSELF!!
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