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Quicken Home & Business 2010 [DOWNLOAD]
 
Manufacturer: Intuit
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Product Description
Quicken Home & Business 2010 gives you the personal finance features found in Quicken Premier plus tools that make it easy to see how your home business is doing.

Manages both your personal and business finances together in one place. Click to enlarge.

See where your money's going. Click to enlarge.

Always know how your home based business is doing. Click to enlarge.

Helps maximize deductions and simplify your taxes. Click to enlarge.

See your most important info in one place. Click to enlarge.

Getting started is a breeze. Click to enlarge.

Easily organizes your personal and business finances

Includes all the features and tools of Quicken Premier, plus:

  • Easily organizes your personal and home based business finances, all in one place
  • Shows you where your money is going: automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses
  • Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
  • Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits

Features and Benefits

Manages both your personal and business finances together in one place
Organizes your financial information by bringing your personal and home-based business accounts together in one place--including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites: see your complete financial picture with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

See where your money's going
Quicken Home & Business automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses. So it's even easier to track business expenses you paid for with a personal account.

Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal and business finances are for the week, month or year.

Always know how your home based business is doing
View your business profit and loss at a glance: Quicken Home & Business gives you an overall snapshot of what's coming in for the month, what's going out, and what's left in your accounts.

Helps maximize deductions and simplify your taxes
Captures all your deductions, including mileage and expenses for specific jobs, or even household expenses that you can partially write off. The business tax deduction summary lets you instantly see your tax deduction status throughout the year to help avoid any April 15th surprises. At tax time, save time by creating Schedule C reports for your accountant. You can also easily export your data directly to TurboTax to prepare your taxes quickly and accurately.

Simplifies estimating and invoicing
Easily create, print, and save professional-looking estimates and invoices for your clients and customers.

Provides comprehensive investing and planning tools
Easily tracks, analyzes, and helps you optimize your investment portfolio. You can see changes in assets, liabilities, and net worth with one click: we show how your investments are performing across all your accounts.

Helps you make better buy/sell decisions
We help you identify top-performing investments, so you can make smart decisions on buying or selling. For example, use Morningstar Ratings to compare mutual funds and see which ones best fit your investment goals.

Watch your savings grow
We make it easy to get on--and stay on--a budget. Set suggested spending limits and savings goals based on the information you enter into Quicken Home & Business day-by-day.

An intuitive "Spending Planner" summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Check your progress at a glance, and quickly see where you have room to spend or need to save more.

We can also help you create customized plans to reduce/eliminate debt--and to save for a house, college, retirement or large purchase.

Never miss a bill
See what bills--personal and business--have already been paid, what's coming up and if you have enough left in your accounts to cover them--all in one convenient place. Set reminders to pay bills on time and instantly check the status of past bills.

Enjoy free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new Quicken personal finance software, free phone support is available. For more information, visit our Help & Support site.

Save money and shop smart
Our free service--Quicken Picks--seeks out the best online coupons and discount offers just for you, on the stuff you care about. You also get cash back on all your purchases, helping you save even more. You can sign up for Quicken Picks anytime within your Quicken software.

Easily import from Microsoft Money
If you've been using Microsoft Money personal finance software, we can help you transfer your valuable financial information to Quicken.4 With our easy-to-use Data Converter tool, you'll be up-and-running with Quicken in practically no time.

What's New in 2010

Already using Quicken? Reasons to upgrade now:

New--See your most important info in one place
The new Quicken home page puts all your most important financial information in one easy-to-understand window, so you can see how you're doing at a glance.

Improved--Find the tools you need, faster
The improved menu and toolbar make it easier to find the tools you need to help organize your personal finances.

New--Getting started is a breeze
It's simpler than ever to put Quicken to work for you--so you can reach your personal finance goals faster. With the new Guided Setup, you just answer a few simple questions; we'll show you how Quicken works, and what to do next. You'll see your total financial picture come into focus even sooner than you expect.

New--Avoid late fees and penalties
We help you avoid overdraft fees and penalties--by showing you how much you'll have left in your account until your next paycheck.

Improved--Check for accuracy
We've made it easier to review your transactions, so you can quickly spot anything that looks inaccurate or out of place. If a transaction requires follow-up, you can flag it with a reminder.

Improved--Get tips from other Quicken users
With Quicken's Live Community, you can get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. If you have a question about something specific you're trying to do, just look to Live Community on the right of the Quicken screen for the answer.

Product Details
  • Quicken Home & Business 2010 easily organizes your personal and business finances
  • Organizes your finances and makes portfolio management easier by bringing your accounts together in one place
  • Shows you where your money is going by automatically categorizing your personal and home business expenses
  • Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home based business is doing
  • Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals and identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments

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Customer Reviews
Quicken - Now the Only Game in Town
 
Review Date: December 20, 2009
Reviewer: JG in PHX, Phoenix, AZ USA
I have been a Quicken user for about a decade. I previously had Quicken 2007 installed on my PC, but since Quicken fixes it that you have to purchase a new version every 3 years if you want to download transactions from your financial institutions, it was time for an update. Quicken tends to incrementally add new features from year-to-year, so if it were not mandatory to update periodically in order to download transactions, I would probably update less frequently. For the features I regularly use, I see very difference between 2007 and 2010.

I prefer to do a clean install, so I first uninstalled my previous version of Quicken. When uninstalling, Quicken leaves behind your data files to use in the new version. This latest update process was probably the smoothest I've experienced. I have about 10 years of data, and Quicken 2010 converted the previous data files to the current single .qdf data file in about 5 minutes. With that, my preferences were maintained and all accounts were up-to-date.

Here are the reasons I use Quicken rather than simply rely on my online banking website:
1) convenience of having transactions and balances from all financial institutions in one place
2) ability to separate business and personal expenses
3) makes it easy to find taxable deductions without having to use additional tax programs
4) by downloading transactions every couple of days, one can get a jump start on finding fraudulent charges if they exist
5) ability to see the equity built up in my home from month-to-month
6) built in check register

Quicken also has the ability to keep track of your investments. However, if you're an active day trader, you would be better served with a dedicated software program for tracking your securities. Perhaps Quicken has inproved its handling of stock transactions, but I found that when I was an active trader using prior versions, the balances were not accurate and suitable for use in filing your Schedule D.

With the demise of MS Money, Quicken is basically your only choice for downloading transactions to a desktop program. I would have given Quicken 2010 5 stars, but deducted a star because of the program's built-in obsolescence after only 3 years and requirement to pay full price to update to the latest version.

Worked for me with a couple of work-arounds
 
Review Date: October 20, 2009
Reviewer: Small town girl,
I downloaded Quicken 2010 Home and Business as an update for Quicken 2009 Home and Business. The download and installation from Amazon was no problem after I downloaded the Amazon files for downloading software and games. Had a slight problem getting my old Quicken files to convert to the new version of Quicken. Ended up bypassing the installation option to convert my old files and instead used the "file/open" option after I got the software installed and that worked fine, converted my files and then I just saved that opened file. Also had a problem in that I have another program that uses the .pdf printer option and the Quicken .pdf printer settings were keeping my other software from using the .pdf printer option. I had to delete and reinstall the .pdf printer file for that other software so that it would again be first in line. Overall, this seems to be a smoother upgrade than 2009 which was a nightmare until they got all their glitches fixed. I would also add that I tried the online support from Quicken and after waiting in the print cue for 24 minutes, at 9 seconds it canceled my request and gave me a search box instead so I wouldn't waste my time waiting in line for help.
Only if you must
 
Review Date: January 13, 2010
Reviewer: M. Gozum, Eastern USA
If you are a current Quicken user faced with a forced upgrade, version 2010 is better than at least, 2007. upgrade only when necessary. My upgrades this decade were in 2004 and 2007.

As a heavy user since 1988, I've seen a lot change with Quicken, many have been painful. Versions this decade are the least problematic. Periodic upgrades do make sense given its Internet centric operation because HTML, encryption, security protocols, and more, have evolved much and Quicken must adopt these changes. Alas, to users most of these are invisible and behind the scenes. In 2010, Quicken now uses the .NET framework for coding, a mixed blessing, as it consumes more memory, resources and disk space to add capability and stability. Computers should find these added needs inconsequential if these machines run games and 720p movies easily. I've not had problems with data syncing, slow response, bugs, lost data, corrupt files etc., despite my 4 year old computer and continuous data going back to 1985.

I've never upgraded to a first release of a new version to avoid bugs, nor overwrite a prior version. Always make a full system backup before installation, a system restore point just before installation, then a fresh install, then import the prior data file as a copy, keeping the old file intact. This leads to the least, if not problem free upgrade and an effortless path back to the old version should the upgrade bomb. Although I received 2010 Release 1.0, online files were available to upgrade my 2010 to Release 4.0.

The GUI design has remain unchanged, and clearly noticeable improvements and editing aids are welcome, BUT not worth paying for.

Quicken does make effortless a core function of personal finance, quick retrieval and reliable storage of data, editing and later analysis via reports. In the past decade, data retrieval has been nearly flawless; duplicate entries are increasingly rare even if you overlap a data set, say after syncing manually then later add data using a QFX file. However, Quicken has many shortcomings that should have been fixed decades ago. Quicken has sub-optimally organized or thought out functions. Its not intuitive where a function is, several do the same thing or are poorly thought out. For example, there are 3 ways to write electronic checks that do the same thing differently: through a 1990s "online banking" interface, the checking register, or a separate checkbook app. Attachments to register entries, such as jpgs of checks, can be encrypted individually, however you can see the files whether encrypted or not, the annunciator is poorly located so its not immediately clear if attachments are encrypted, and this option implies Quicken data files are not encrypted entirely, a serious oversight. There is also suggestion from Elcomsoft, that a backdoor exists for decoding Quicken data file passwords. Luckily, one can separately encrypt files or drive partitions using Windows options or 3rd party programs.

The new user or light Quicken user should know there are several free personal finance managers available for download that read Quicken formats. I've tried some of them but they lack Quicken's overall flexibility, and they are similar to early versions of Quicken. Thus, if your needs are simple like budgeting, then tracking income, expense and some investing, there maybe free alternatives. Should you decide to move to Quicken later, these programs allow exports into the Quicken format.
Better than I Expected
 
Review Date: January 17, 2010
Reviewer: J. Preece, Sacramento, CA United States
I've used Quicken for about 10 years now and it has always had its share of issues. Bugs, oddities, and frustrating work-arounds were pretty standard. I found it better in most was than Money but since MS Money is no longer supported, it looks like Quicken is really the only game in town.

I gotta say, since upgrading to 2010 I see a lot that I like. The new design is better, easier to get a glance at your finances, and the Update feature (auto-downloads of bank accounts) works much better than in 2007. I used to get a list of errors almost every time I updated, but on this version that seems to be fixed. It's almost more clear when the "error" is that no transactions have posted.

The business section also seems to have been improved with tagging in the registers. This makes it a little easier to sort expenses and income between personal and business. In the 2007 version it was more arduous to separate these items.

Finally, the screen showing outstanding bills is nicer, and I do like the ability to mark a bill as paid and clearly see that it was entered.

The Quicken engineers did a few nice upgrades all around on this version. Is it worth the money to upgrade? If you have any older version of Quicken, I'd say it's worth the upgrade. If you are on 2009, I'd wait a year or two and get the most out of your last investment. I was *forced* to upgrade because 2007 will stop supporting downloads from bank accounts in April. This is standard for Quicken- they force you to upgrade every three years. This is one reason I will probably never rate their products with 5-stars (are you listening, Intuit??).


Works well; learning curve for previous Money user
 
Review Date: February 24, 2010
Reviewer: R. Aldridge, Ohio
I purchased Quicken to replace Microsoft Money.

The "convertor" program worked adequately, but for the number and types of accounts that I have, the result was not what I wanted.

I opted to "clean house" and recreate each account and bill reminder from scratch, manually. This resulted in 1) a better understanding of Quicken; and 2) more control over the accounts. I picked a cutoff date and I keep Money available as a read-only reference.

Many financial institutions work with the Quicken download -- either through a manual download from the institution, or an automatic pull from the Quicken software. Some banks offer an extra-feature/extra-charge download for Quicken users, but I have not needed that.

Learning curves:
- Transfers are a little tricky to setup between accounts.
- Quicken "remembers" the previous transaction and that's not always what you want. Transactions can end up in the wrong account.
- It was difficult to setup automated downloads vs. bill reminders vs. transfers. Sometimes the transaction would download from the institution, but would not align with the scheduled bill/reminder that you setup in Quicken.
- The vendor names don't always look correct for downloaded transactions. You can edit these.


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