| | |  | Home Business Electronics | Home » » Quicken Home & Business 2009 [OLD VERSION] | | | | | | | Description: | | Quicken Home and Business makes it simple to manage all your personal and business finances in one place— so you can see how your business is doing. | | | Features: | |
• Maximize tax deductions — categorize expenses as business or personal
• Identify potential deductions and track deductible expenses like mileage and office supplies
• Never miss a bill— stay on top of bills due and paid
• Monitor profit and loss and overall business performance in the Business Center
• Bring your personal and business accounts— credit cards, brokerages, online banks— together (online services require internet access and are subject to change)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 78 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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57 of 58 found the following review helpful:
 Nothing newOct 20, 2008
By atimbomb
I've used Quicken for 15yrs+, buy every major upgrade. But this one has no new significant features, it adveritses some, but they don't stand out. I think there might be some extension of current features, but it's not changed my organization or advanced my reporting or insight in any new ways. I would not buy this particular upgrade had I known how insignificant this upgrade is for current users. I gave three stars because overall Quicken is still a GREAT product, just a useless upgrade for current users.
55 of 56 found the following review helpful:
 There must be a better solution than Intuit and QuickenDec 28, 2008
By Jerry Saperstein
I've had it with Quicken. From its bizarre copy protection schemes to the endless promotions of its own products within the program and some of the dumbest programming decisions around, such as downloading all transactions from a single financial institution into one account, even though you have separated them into multiple accounts. I don't need Quicken making these decisions for me.
The endless selling is intrusive and annoying. You have to be very careful that you aren't initiating some process that won't end up having you cancel it later.
Quicken's help file is ridiculous. It is incomplete or in many instances uses terms that are different than those used in the program itself. All too often the sketchy help file entries refer you to an equally poorly written and uninformative web entry - where Intuit attempts to sell you more of their products and services.
Because they were first to market and did a passable job in their early years, Quicken dominates the market. But, in my opinion, for the past several years, Intuit has abused its own customer base. I'm tired of it, tired of the endless marketing promotions in the programs, tired of the lousy help, tired of the ridiculous inflexibility of the program. I'll be looking elsewhere in the future and leave these moneygrubbers behind.
Jerry
38 of 39 found the following review helpful:
 Good Product, but. . .Apr 27, 2009
By Stephen T. Young
"S Young"
Amazing how the 'downloadable' verision costs more than the box, huh? I rated this product in the standard media and gave it five stars. I took one away here for 1.) the price should be less 2.) you also have to download a download management program from Amazon --I did this for Turbo Tax and it worked well, however, it, the proprietay nature of that beast is a little disturbing to me, especially the size of that program.
Also, if you are in a hurry for this -i.e.,you want to download it- you probably want to read the bottom of my review about quicken.com.
I have a SMALL business and have been using Quicken for years. Along the way I have noticed how a few years back that Quicken (Intuit) let their product slide and also introduced hype each year to entice you to buy something that wasn't much more valuable than the previous version. (During those years I tried MS Money, etc., but Quicken still had the edge IMHO in spite of the decline in quality)
When the business grew a little last year I also bought Quickbooks 2008 (I also fell into a hype trap about Payroll addition which was nothing but a service. . .but that is another story) Last year I used it a lot but found that Quickbooks was too cumbersome for a business of my size. So, that caused me to look around for a good product again.
Yes, I was VERY hesitant to buy this product; was planning on returning it if it didn't live up to its claims. . . but surprisingly, IT DOES. I have been using it about four months now.
The primary feature is the ability to separate your business and personal trasactions on one screen. Being a techie I understand that there was a signficant amount of database work to accomplish this -and they did it- and in such a way it is very convenient to use, even for business transactions that may be in accounts that are normally 'personal.' This product is a breeze to use for a business my size and to also keep up with personal finances. Probably if I had as many as five-ten employees I would use Quickbooks.
2009 also offers several other bells and whistles above Quicken 2008: The ease of adding new accounts, the reports, the way it imports data is better and some features I seldom use, i.e., 'Quicken Picks' which produces coupons from stores you use. Even these make it worth the price.
But again, it is the Business and Personal data that are easy to seperate, but managable together on single screens that does it for me --it is a signficant advancement along with these additional bells and whistles.
You may want to shop around. I looked at it here but then bought it from Intuit who was bundling it with WillMaker, etc., and etc. And their websites are also improving, e.g., when my computer crashed all I had to do was log back in to quicken.com and reload ALL that software. Intuit is definitely trying to do better, this product was well worth it for me.
57 of 61 found the following review helpful:
Don't do it yet unless you don't own any other versionSep 18, 2008
By Mellisa J. Campbell
"MissyC"
I first have to agree with the prior posts that the updates LOOK great, & I really wanted to give this a better rating, but not all of the new features are working. I downloaded this and upgraded from 2007 just for all of the new tax prep in it...and it doesn't work! I guess because it's 2009 it won't import Turbo Tax .tax files any older than 2008 (really?), it won't even let you manually enter your 2007 tax information into the tax planner (the drop down has an option for 2008 & 2009 only). This isn't tax planning! This is crazy. If you don't own any other version and you need it now or this isn't a feature you need (if you're buying this version I can't imagine you won't need it) then it's great...but don't plan on it being fully functional until 2009 I guess.
28 of 28 found the following review helpful:
Forced to pay more for a worse productMar 02, 2009
By Steve
Remember when Microsoft told us that Vista was so much better than XP and 2000, but those who bought it discovered that even though everything was much prettier, it took them twice the amount of time to do basic things they could do before? It seems that Intuit is doing the exact same thing.
I was a very, very happy user of Quicken Home and Business 2006. In fact, I have been a happy user of Quicken since it was sold on 5 1/4" disks for the Apple II.
Intuit started telling me that automatic downloads from financial institutions would no longer work, and that I had to upgrade to 2009 in order to keep that feature. Being a computer programmer, I know this is a lot of bull. What happened was, someone in the marketing department discovered that people weren't buying 2009. So what do they do? Planned obsolecence. Start disabling perfectly good features in 2006 so that everyone needs to fork over $80 to buy the new version.
I happily forked over the money. After all, like I said, I was perfectly happy with 2006, and I figured that 2009 would be an improvement.
I had always been very happy with Quicken's user interface. The problem is, it seems that since 2006 it seems that they fired all their UI people. The new software is "pretty". It's got "round edges" like modern software is supposed to have.
But just one small example. The accounts list on the left of the screen can't be resized past 242 pixels. So if I have an account that reads "American Express - Starwoods Preferred Card", it now reads "American Express - Starwoo". Yes, I can rename the account, but why should I? In 2006, I could resize the panel just fine, thank you very much.
Another thing that boggles my mind. There is a 2-pixel vertical line to the left of that screen. It took me about 10 minutes to realize this is supposed to be a scroll bar. I am no UI expert, but this breaks every single usability rule in the book. In 2006, there was a perfectly fine traditional scrollbar. But some idiot designer decided along the lines that usability wasn't as important as keeping the beautiful rounded corners pretty.
This is just talking about two little features. Multiply this by about 200, and you'll know the frustration you'll be facing when you install this. There are dozens and dozens of buttons that I'll never use, but now every time I open Quicken I'll have to navigate through them to do what I want.
This is the kind of thing that happens when a company becomes a monopoly. They lose touch with what made them successful in the first place, and a bunch of hack executives try to "improve" their product, but end up destroying it because they don't try to understand what made it successful in the first place. In Quicken's case, it was simplicity, lack of bloat, a great user interface, and a product that worked. I hate to say it, but Intuit "jumped the shark" with this one. They dropped the ball with Turbotax, and now they're doing the same with this once-fine product.
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