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    Quicken 2008 Starter Edition [OLD VERSION]

    Quicken 2008 Starter Edition [OLD VERSION]

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    From: Intuit
    Category: Software

    List Price: $29.95
    Buy New: $22.00
    You Save: $7.95 (27%)



    New (4) Used (10) from $14.39

    Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 28 reviews
    Sales Rank: 2410

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platform: Windows Xp
    Media: CD-ROM
    Edition: Starter Edition [First-time users only]
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.4

    MPN: 403617
    UPC: 028287016736
    EAN: 0028287016644
    ASIN: B000U0E9Y8

    Release Date: September 9, 2007
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • Designed for first-time users only, Quicken Starter Edition will get you up-and-running quickly
      • Make online banking even better--bring all your online accounts together in one place
      • Quickly see where you are spending your money--and what's left over for you at the end of the month
      • Say goodbye to late fees. Pay your bills on time--and right from Quicken--using Quicken Bill Pay
      • Make tax time easier by categorizing deductible expenses as you go through the year

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Product Description
    Perfect for first-time personal financial software users, Quicken Starter Edition is designed to get you up-and-running quickly. Make online banking even better--bring all your online accounts together in one place. Quickly see where you are spending your money--and what's left over for you at the end of the month. Say goodbye to late fees. Pay your bills on time--and right from Quicken--using Quicken Bill Pay. Make tax time easier by categorizing deductible expenses as you go through the year.

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    Designed for first-time Quicken users, Quicken Starter Edition 2008 will help you get a better handle on your finances, so you always know where you stand. Quicken Starter Edition shows you where your money is going for the month--so you can see what you have left over. NOTE: Does not import existing Quicken data.*

    Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are at for the month or year.

    See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and help avoid late fees.

    See what you're spending (so you know when you can splurge).

    See where your money is going (a.k.a. "money management")
    Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are at for the month or year. Quicken shows you what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over each month to spend or save.

    View all your finances in one place
    Bring your online accounts--including banking, credit card, and loan accounts--together all in one place. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple web sites and remembering multiple passwords. With Quicken, you see it all in one place and you need just ONE password (1).

    Pay your bills on time
    See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and--most importantly--help avoid late fees. Easily pay bills from within Quicken using Quicken Bill Pay or a third party bill pay service (2).

    Save time at tax time
    Mark expenses as tax deductible throughout the year, so you have everything ready come tax time. Quicken Starter Edition also exports your data directly to TurboTax, so you won't have to re-enter the same information twice (3).

    Take advantage of more connections to more financial institutions
    Quicken Starter Edition 2008 connects you to over 5300 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal. It's easier than ever to truly bring your accounts together in one place (1).

    Import your PayPal account transactions into Quicken
    Whether it's payments or income--or both--Quicken can now import your transaction data directly from PayPal.

    Get free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken(4)
    If you need help installing or upgrading your new Quicken Personal Finance software, free phone support is available for Quicken Starter Edition 2008 through December 31, 2008.

    (1) Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions and fees. More than 5,322 participating financial institutions as of 6/05/07.
    (2) To pay bills in Quicken requires Quicken Bill Pay (sold separately) or a third party bill pay service (fees may apply)
    (3) TurboTax sold separately
    (4) Email, Forums and Chat technical support provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Phone technical support provided Monday--Friday, 5:00 am--5:00 pm PDT. Additional fees may apply.



    Customer Reviews:   Read 23 more reviews...

    5 out of 5 stars Terrific Product!   November 25, 2008
    I. Davis (Desert Southwest, USA)
    Quicken is definitely the most comprehensive and easiest to use of the financial softwares I've seen. It's a truly great product.


    3 out of 5 stars Quicken   August 11, 2008
    Thomas Kendal (Norway)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    An easy installation guide and straightforward operation guide makes this item worth buying if you wish to keep an eye on Income over expenditure. Gives an excellent itemised review of money spent.
    Recommended.



    2 out of 5 stars Not as Expected   June 1, 2008
    Peggy (Adams, MA USA)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    Because it was called "Starter Edition" I expected it to be easy to use. I was looking for a simple program to keep track of basic finances. This was complex and much too detailed for what I needed. It may be a great program for those who need what it offers, but I found it was a waste of money for me.


    5 out of 5 stars Easy to use software, but connecting with your bank can be complicated - but that's not quicken's fault   May 29, 2008
    M. Wetmore (Pikeville, KY United States)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    As this is only the "starter version" one could not merely export the data from the website in Quicken format and then import it into Quicken. If your online bank does not put the data into this Quicken's 2008 format it will not import it. That's why its called a "starter version", so heads up to those of you who usually import data to update quicken.

    HOWEVER... Quicken is set up to actually do the downloading from the bank itself. In all honesty, its BETTER to let Quicken do the downloading because its more streamlined then exporting from your website and importing into Quicken.

    Setting up this feature is where I had issues. I had to make several phone calls to get my online banking passwords to mesh with quicken. My online bank (National City) kept doing weird things. There were two passwords that one needed to log into the account, one for me to login to the online banking website, and then a separate one for Quicken to use to gather data. In the process of doing all of this the two passwords got confused, and I got very stressed. But after several calls to the help desk of my bank we got it all figured out and I now can EASILY do my banking with Quicken.

    Quicken is a GREAT product and I'm very satisfied with it. I used my Dad's version in college but once I got my own computer I settled for Microsoft Money (it was only $10) and got so frustrated. It kept screwing up my data and was very confusing to reconcile, that I actually created my own program in Microsoft Access to do banking with. It worked wonderfully, but when I changed banks and had to reset all of the many complicated forms, queries and reports I'd created, I decided that I'd buy quicken, and I'm very happy with my choice.



    2 out of 5 stars Don't rely on it   May 27, 2008
    KC Oaks (Spokane, WA USA)
    I was only in need of something to make my written register obsolete, as I wasn't keeping up with it as well as I should, so I chose the Starter Edition. For one thing, you can't upgrade it to a subsequently-released version. That's annoying, but I'll get around it.

    What really makes this product infuriating is Intuit itself. 60-75% of the time I try to download my transactions, Quicken reports that there is an error or an outage with the Intuit servers. I can understand the application needing to contact Intuit to update its bank list, but I don't understand why it would need to do it every time and why having that fail would require my transaction download to also fail. On the surface, it seems like some bad design.

    There are a myriad of other annoying things that I would change, but everyone has those with every product so they're not worth mentioning. I don't know if Microsoft Money is any better, but I don't know that it could be much worse. If I had to choose between the two again, I'd definitely let price drive my decision as Quicken Starter Edition doesn't give any good reasons in its favor.


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