Quicken 2009 Coupons & Feature Recap
I picked up a copy of Quicken last year to help with our family’s personal finances and perhaps assist in the accounting of my fledgling little business. This year, Quicken has released yet another version update, Quicken 2009 is slated for a September 10th release, and offered some handsome discounts for those looking to upgrade or use the software for the first time.
Quicken 2009 New Features
I’ve read people talk about how they hated all these yearly updates because they offered little in upgrades. Well, in scouring the web for more information, I stumbled on this job posting in which Intuit, makers of Quicken, is “planning a major redesign of the product, and we are looking for a senior user interaction designer for 6-9 month.” Who knows what that means though.
There are additional portfolio planning features added, a whole new help system (with screens for each page), as well as adding more banks to its system. Quicken 2009 will now interface with over 6,000 institutions from banks to brokerages to PayPal.
Quicken 2009 Coupons Codes
- Quicken Deluxe 2009 (
$59.99$39.99) - Quicken Premier 2009 (
$89.99$69.99) - Quicken Home & Business 2009 (
$99.99$79.99) - Quicken Home and Inventory Manager (
$29.99$23.99) - Quicken Mac (
$49.99$33.99) - Quicken Medical Expense Manager (
$69.99$44.79) - Quicken Rental Property Manager (
$149.99$129.99) - Quicken Online (FREE
60 day free trial, then $2.99/month)
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So outside of some additional institutions and a portfolio planning feature, do you know of any major features of Quicken 2009 that make it worthwhile? Are you going to be upgrading?
Not sure on both counts, I’m going to see what it looks like once they release it and then decide…
Richard: One major feature is that if you’re running Quicken 2006, as of mid-April your online features will cease to work unless you upgrade to a newer release. There are only so many things a product like Quicken can do - eventually you start to run out of features you can add.
My father & I only upgrade every 3 years - when Intuit “sunsets” support for whatever version we’re running at the time.
Hi,
Do you think Quicken is useful for someone managing their personal finances - or is it a bit more complex and mainly targeted towards small business owners?
I recently upgraded to the latest Quicken 2009 Deluxe from the 2008 version. I couldn’t really find anything online that made me want to upgrade, except I saw some screen shots of portfolio analysis based on sector weighting that I was very interested in. So, I shelled out the $70 to upgrade. Turns out, that not only did they move things around so it’s hard to find stuff, they completely removed functionality. For example, I use the tax planner pretty extensively, to model stock option grant sales and things like that. I was pretty annoyed that this was gone. It’s possible that this will be re-added in a service release, as there’s tabs and things for the tax planner, it’s just not there yet.
I come to find out that the one feature I really wanted (the portfolio analysis stuff) was only available as part of the online features I already had in 2008 - I just had never known about them or used them.
I’m strongly considering taking advantage of Intuit’s satisfaction guarantee and getting my $70 back.
Regardless of that, if I had not already owned 2008, I would’ve been reasonably satisfied with this version. I use Quicken daily and I highly recommend it overall, even just for personal finance. You might want to see if you can find a reduced 2008 edition around, or perhaps wait until the 2009 edition’s bugs are fixed before jumping in.
Thanks, Richard. I’m going to search for a cheap 2008 edition. I’ve been wanting to try it, but didn’t want to spend the money if it was going to be overly complicated for my personal finances. Thanks again for the advice!