Comments on: Quicken Premier 2010 Review

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:32:44 +0000

M&T does support online banking through Quicken. I do so and have been doing so for ten years. In fact, ten years ago, M&T was the ONLY bank one could connect to via Quicken.

By: James4230

James4230 — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:54:39 +0000

As a long-time MS Money user I find Q2010 clumsy to use. With MS M I did not need to use the mouse, I could download, tab through the transactions and dropdowns to clean up and categorize. In Q the mouse really slows me down. What about QuickBook?

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:51:20 +0000

I can’t agree with your assessment of Quicken. Quicken 2010 is so clumsy and disconnected vs MS Money. I ran the MS Money product for over 10 years. Just as smooth as silk. Paying bills through Money, which quickly and easily connected to my bank’s online payment system, was a lark compared to the contant attempts by Quicken to push me into their PAID online bill payment service.

If anything, I’d love for somebody to acquire the MS Money assets from Microsoft and bring it out agoin to compete with this mess

By: MHilly

MHilly — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:13:10 +0000

Now, 8 months later, are you still using 2010 to replace your envelope-budgeting system? Or did you have to fall back to your standaloen budgeting program?

By: Paul W

Paul W — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:00:49 +0000

Absolutely HATE all the nagging and other “features” Intuit keeps heaping onto what was once a nice and clean finance tracking application. It is really a shame that there is no competition left.
On the Mac there is iBank which I would consider if it weren’t for the fact that it won’t even support a shared drive model for giving more than 1 computer access to the data. What moderately wired house hold doesn’t have at least 1 computer per person? To force all financial work to get done at only 1 machine is insane!

Meanwhile Quicken’s UI sucks as much as ever (which you won’t notice if you’re a Windoze user because then you’re used to UIs that suck).

Can’t wait for the day Microsoft drops support for Windows as well as MS Money…

By: amit

amit — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:47:02 +0000

i have been trying to contact quicken to resolve my issue for the last 4 months.
when i speak to their chatting customer care, they tell me to speak to customer care on email. when i email them, the email team tells me to log a call for phone support. the phone support never calls you back.
and they dont have an answer to any of your queries.
if the pre sales service is so pathetic, what would be their post sales service.
they keep giving dates and promised, but no resolution.
THE WORST / PATHETIC SERVICE I HAVE EVER SEEN.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:22:30 +0000

Other people have been talking about “You Need A Budget” vs. “Quicken”. Any thoughts?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:42:56 +0000

I’ll google that. Is it easy to use. I’ve been depressed because there is no alternative to Quicken with MSMoney gone now. I don’t like being forced to buy upgrades or lose download capabilities from my bank. I put the 2010 on my notebook then went and downloaded it to my pc. Now anytime I try to download from my bank it crashes. I spent 2 hours the other day uninstalling, deleting folders, and following all kinds of instructions from the live chat dude, and they couldn’t fix it. I have to download to my notebook, then send it to my pc and open it. I can’t download. I think it’s a glitch with their attempt to stop multiple copies. Of course they wouldn’t admit that.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:29:44 +0000

Yeah Yeah, I’ve been using quicken since 2003. Over the last 4 years they have forced me to buy their upgrades with shady marketing practices. Now they took out the running balance feature if you sort transactions in your register by the “CLR” column. Knowing what the clr balance of all my entries are is of utmost importance to. If this doesn’t match the online balance, I know I’m out of balance. Also, whatever is left below the clr balance is what is outstanding or will be posting soon. I can prevent any bounced checks, or the $10 fee it takes for my overdraft account to cover it.

By: Gopher Baroque

Gopher Baroque — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:59:36 +0000

Just a comment for IzaLot and others curious about other choices. I like AceMoney’s clean interface (and lack of bonus advertising). It does account updating through manually loaded (QIF, OFX, OFC, QFX, XML) data files, rather than Quicken “OneStepUpdate”. I still use AceMoney to track state sales tax for the sake of Federal tax return because I like the interface, but feel compelled to upgrade from Q-2007 to Q-2010 (since Quicken is about to drop update support for 2007) just for the ease of data updates.

By: Big Bob

Big Bob — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:15:24 +0000

Wachovia is now wells fargo and they are loaded with fees. I dumped mine.

By: lagreat

lagreat — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:39:19 +0000

Lot of financial transactions cannot be downloaded including institutions like ING that services many 401(k) plans for corporates. options or stock awards from Schwab or Morgan Stanley not available either. I just started setting up and am not sure how many more are not included. Additionally, there is fee from Wachovia to download transactions – what gives?

Where do we get support for this institutions or let intuit know to get them on their list?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:56 +0000

Sounds like exactly what I need.

By: otipoby

otipoby — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:39:11 +0000

I am a longtime MS Money user and am still bummed about them leaving the markey. I think I had the first version as part of a special deal with Windows 95. I simply cannot live without the detailed tracking. I update all of my transactions twice a week. I have every credit card transaction since 95 in Money. I suppose I will move over to Quicken, and I will probably learn to like it as well. I just feel like I have lost a old friend with MS Money.

By: Izalot

Izalot — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:48:48 +0000

I like Quicken but I hate it’s nagware in upgrading it’s product and it’s cross promotion of other Intuit products. I paid for the product now leave me alone! Otherwise make it free and put all the advertisement you want. Has anyone used any freeware finance software? I’ve tried GnuCash but it doesn’t hold a candle to Quicken. Any other products out there?