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Summary: pay bill nightmares
Review: I've been using Quicken for over a decade and loved it all along the way. I'm a fully advanced user. I was very happy with 2000 but forced to upgrade to be able to continue on-line banking. I have had nothing but problems hooking up to the bank with my new 2004 (I've NEVER had one problem with this before in 5 years). I have used overseas Intuit techs for 3-4 hrs off and on (and they charge you!!!). Sometimes the bill-pay works, sometimes it doesn't. I know it's the new Quicken software as its never been an issue before. I am quiting Quicken. I've had it. There's something wrong with this program.
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Summary: pay bill nightmares
Review: I've been using Quicken for over a decade and loved it all along the way. I'm a fully advanced user. I was very happy with 2000 but forced to upgrade to be able to continue on-line banking. I have had nothing but problems hooking up to the bank with my new 2004 (I've NEVER had one problem with this before in 5 years). I have used overseas Intuit techs for 3-4 hrs off and on (and they charge you!!!). Sometimes the bill-pay works, sometimes it doesn't. I know it's the new Quicken software as its never been an issue before. I am quiting Quicken. I've had it. There's something wrong with this program.
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Summary: What's Happened to Intuit?
Review: I've been using versions of Quicken for well over a decade, but this version is so buggy that I removed it and replaced it with Quicken 2002. (I did update Quicken 2004 to the latest build, but it's still not ready for primetime.) The bugs were annoying but not catastrophic, like hidden accounts not staying hidden or windows not drawing properly. It froze at one point when I tried to access the help file, but I didn't lose any data. And my system is ordinarily very stable. But I'm not confident that my data would be safe. I've never returned software before, but I think I'm going to send this back to Intuit.
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Summary: Needs work
Review: I've got a couple of checking/credit card accounts with Bank of America, Sears, and a broker account with Ameritrade. _Not_ _one_ of these is handled properly by Quicken. Sears Bank is not even in the list of supported financial institutions. Each attempt to download the transaction history from Bank of America results in a generic error ( "Your financial institution has rejected your request", OL-301-A ), although both Quicken and the bank claim to support each other. With Ameritrade it _usually_ works, but I have to review every single transaction before accepting it, because Quicken sometimes duplicates them ( and then adds fictituous entries to compensate for the inconsistencies ).
On a side note, I have to admit that MS Money does not work any better for me.
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Summary: It's a bad as everyone says
Review: Like many others, I was a loyal Quicken customer and was running Quicken 2002 Deluxe until upgrading to 2004 Premier. If you're happy with your existing version of Quicken, don't upgrade to 2004. It really is bug ridden, just like many people have commented. Intuit seems to have focused on new on-line features and broke basic functionality. I regret upgrading to Quicken 2004 but it's too late for me to do anything about it. Maybe I'll try MS Money. I don't work for Microsoft or any company that sells Microsoft products.
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Summary: Getting Little or Nothing for a Rather Large Expense
Review: My annual Christmas present to myself has been a Quicken upgrade for as long as I can remember--way back to the DOS days. For years, the program just got better and better. Now, I am not so sure. The last couple of years, it has looked different, but little else has changed. The decrease in simlicity is actually a step backward. At the very least, $75.00 is way too much for what you get. If you have 2003, or even 2002, stay put.
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Summary: Not up to Quicken's Standards
Review: Purchased Quicken 2004 Premier to upgrade from Quicken 2003 Deluxe. I have been a Quicken user for many years and have always been satisfied with the product - until 2004 Premier. There does not seem to be any way to change colors on the register display as there has been in previous versions. The old one click backup function is totally gone and has been replaced with some application called Windows XP CD Burning. Apparently, you have to use this function in XP to make a backup to a CD-RW. In the past, you just clicked on backup, indicated the location, and away you went. This process is a disaster and I have been unable to get it to work - even after going to the Intuit website for further information. To add to all of this, there is not a way to contact Intuit without incurring costs to get answers to these issues.I am very disappointed in this product and, as another reviewer stated, I may just revert back to Quicken 2003 Deluxe. I would not recommend that you purchase this product.
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Summary: poor software, easy decision to finally switch
Review: Purchased, was disappointed, and requested a refund.I quickly discovered no compelling features, and poor support for multiple currency accounts (can't see dollar accounts and foreign currency accounts at the same time--something that has been unchanged at least since Quicken 99.) By comparison, the latest Money was easy to start understanding. 10 years of Quicken use is enough for me!
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Summary: Seems like it would do anything I need...?
Review: Quicken sure has a lot of options! Too bad I can't understand how to do ANY of it. Forget the tutorial, it was about as useful as instructions on a shampoo bottle. This is only user friendly to someone who has a degree in accounting. We are just starting out as far as our finances go, and there is little to no explaination for certain items a beginner wouldn't know ("Would you like to create an amortized loan?" Sure! What the heck is it?).
I don't know anything about MS Money, but I sure which I had checked it out before purchasing Quicken.
Bottomline? If you are new to Quicken, don't expect to plug and play. I am purchasing several how-to books to figure out how this dang thing works. Figure the cost of extra help into the cost of purchasing a new edition. Too complicated, not user friendly.
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Summary: Why can't I do simple things?!
Review: Terrible application and I wish I was still running 1999 Quicken. This program FORCES you to upload your data to quicken.com and I resent this. If you turn off the nearly hidden options so it does not send your financial data to quicken.com, then everytime you download stock quotes, it reports an error indicating you have not yet uploaded your data to quicken.com.
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