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Quicken Premier Personal Finance Software
Manage and grow your investmentsOrganizes all your accounts - bank, credit card, investments, loans, retirement accounts -in one place
Safely and securely imports all of your financial information so you don't have to enter them manually
Automatically categorizes expenses so you can see where you're spending
Helps you create a budget and tracks your progress against it
Shows your returns over time and compares to the market
Analyzes your portfolio so you can measure against your goals
Creates reports that tracks cost basis, capital gains and tax deductions to make tax time easier
Fully Redesigned! Better Budgeting
Now, it's easier than ever to set savings goals with our redesigned budgeting tool. Keep track of different budget categories and know how much you have left to spend each month.
Fully Redesigned! Reduce Your Debt
Create a customized plan to reduce, or eliminate, your debt. We make it easy to stick to your plan with our new, easy-to-use, interactive tools.
We're here when you need us with free customer service and extended hours. No more waiting for call backs!
New! Customize your view
Our new large font mode makes it easier to see where you stand - without straining your eyes.
Improved! Track your equity
We've updated our property and debt dashboard to give you a truer picture of the equity you've earned.
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Quicken Premier software helps you manage & grow your personal finances so you can save more, maximize investments & increase your net worth
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639 of 642 people found the following review helpful
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Summary: If you are new to Quicken, it is a very good program and worth using. However, Quicken 2012 has very few changes over 2011 and is an unnecessary upgrade.
I have been using Quicken for at least the past ten years. I have upgraded each year or two and by the 2010 upgrade I was becoming frustrated with the program because it was becoming slower and less user friendly. Then I read that Quicken had purchased "Mint", an online product, and had hired the founder of Mint to upgrade the Quicken product. I purchased Quicken 2011 and was extremely pleased with changes. The format was much easier to use and the program was beginning to be more flexible.
I have used Quicken 2011 extensively over the past year and throughout that time I was anxiously awaiting Quicken 2012. I figured that if 2011 was such a great improvement, that 2012 would be even better. I have been watching Amazon for the release date of 2012 and downloaded it the day it came out.
Well imagine my disappointment when I found that 2012 is just 2011 with a larger font option. Here is a link to the list of new features of 2012 over 2011 from the quicken website. [...] As you can see the improvements are minor. I am very disappointed as I expected much more.
Anyway I am a loyal Quicken user and will continue to be but if I knew what I know now I would not have wasted my money on the upgrade and would have stuck with 2011 for another year.
NOTE: I checked the other 7 glowing "reviews" that have have been written before me and I find them suspect. All seven were written on the same day and each "reviewer" has not submitted any other reviews to Amazon besides Quicken/Quickbooks products. I rely on Amazons reviews for my purchasing decisions (see my previous reviews) and to me these reviews look like more like social marketing than honest user opinions.
I have been using Quicken for at least the past ten years. I have upgraded each year or two and by the 2010 upgrade I was becoming frustrated with the program because it was becoming slower and less user friendly. Then I read that Quicken had purchased "Mint", an online product, and had hired the founder of Mint to upgrade the Quicken product. I purchased Quicken 2011 and was extremely pleased with changes. The format was much easier to use and the program was beginning to be more flexible.
I have used Quicken 2011 extensively over the past year and throughout that time I was anxiously awaiting Quicken 2012. I figured that if 2011 was such a great improvement, that 2012 would be even better. I have been watching Amazon for the release date of 2012 and downloaded it the day it came out.
Well imagine my disappointment when I found that 2012 is just 2011 with a larger font option. Here is a link to the list of new features of 2012 over 2011 from the quicken website. [...] As you can see the improvements are minor. I am very disappointed as I expected much more.
Anyway I am a loyal Quicken user and will continue to be but if I knew what I know now I would not have wasted my money on the upgrade and would have stuck with 2011 for another year.
NOTE: I checked the other 7 glowing "reviews" that have have been written before me and I find them suspect. All seven were written on the same day and each "reviewer" has not submitted any other reviews to Amazon besides Quicken/Quickbooks products. I rely on Amazons reviews for my purchasing decisions (see my previous reviews) and to me these reviews look like more like social marketing than honest user opinions.
165 of 167 people found the following review helpful
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I skipped 2011 and am upgrading straight from 2010 to 2012.
I (try to) use almost all the features in Quicken, so if you just want something very basic to keep track of your checking account balance, many of these comments may not apply to you.
Many of the same problems still exist:
1. The tax planning center forms still don't "remember" which radio buttons you clicked on when entering projected amounts. When selecting other projection options, the numbers don't always change like they're supposed (but other times they do). Tax planning numbers randomly change or get reset back to earlier values. This issue has been around for me at least since 2010.
2. I get more frequent and severe errors when updating my accounts. This portion of the program was supposed to be faster than ever, but it's at least as slow as before.
Other things I don't like:
1. You have to register just to update your accounts online. It irritates me when companies sneakily sell you a product without telling you that you will essentially be forced to register.
2. I haven't been impressed with Quicken customer support. They have yet to be able to address any issues I've had. Usually I get some variation on "that's a known problem" (many of which have been known about for years!) or "you need to manually rebuild your data file" (which fixed some problems but not most of them).
Things I like:
1. The interface is cleaner and simpler. Many of the unnecessary and duplicated buttons have been removed (I think this happened in the 2011 version). However, it's almost too clean since it takes longer to do some tasks. So some of the changes were good, others not so much.
2. At least it's consistent. No radical changes, so that eases the transition for users. On the other hand, I struggle to understand why I keep having to pay for something that hasn't really changed. I just do it because they cleverly break a few features so that you have to upgrade at least every couple years.
The program isn't horrible if you stick to the core features that work well, but it has so many bugs that I would still consider it beta software. The particularly frustrating aspect of this is that many of the bugs have been around for the multiple versions I've used.
Overall, I only use Quicken because there aren't really any other options out there. If there were, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
I (try to) use almost all the features in Quicken, so if you just want something very basic to keep track of your checking account balance, many of these comments may not apply to you.
Many of the same problems still exist:
1. The tax planning center forms still don't "remember" which radio buttons you clicked on when entering projected amounts. When selecting other projection options, the numbers don't always change like they're supposed (but other times they do). Tax planning numbers randomly change or get reset back to earlier values. This issue has been around for me at least since 2010.
2. I get more frequent and severe errors when updating my accounts. This portion of the program was supposed to be faster than ever, but it's at least as slow as before.
Other things I don't like:
1. You have to register just to update your accounts online. It irritates me when companies sneakily sell you a product without telling you that you will essentially be forced to register.
2. I haven't been impressed with Quicken customer support. They have yet to be able to address any issues I've had. Usually I get some variation on "that's a known problem" (many of which have been known about for years!) or "you need to manually rebuild your data file" (which fixed some problems but not most of them).
Things I like:
1. The interface is cleaner and simpler. Many of the unnecessary and duplicated buttons have been removed (I think this happened in the 2011 version). However, it's almost too clean since it takes longer to do some tasks. So some of the changes were good, others not so much.
2. At least it's consistent. No radical changes, so that eases the transition for users. On the other hand, I struggle to understand why I keep having to pay for something that hasn't really changed. I just do it because they cleverly break a few features so that you have to upgrade at least every couple years.
The program isn't horrible if you stick to the core features that work well, but it has so many bugs that I would still consider it beta software. The particularly frustrating aspect of this is that many of the bugs have been around for the multiple versions I've used.
Overall, I only use Quicken because there aren't really any other options out there. If there were, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
110 of 113 people found the following review helpful
Access Method:Thin Software Download| Platform for Display:PC Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have been a Quicken user for 10 plus years. Unlike 2011... 2012 is a disappointment. Just a month or so before a new release my credit union stops being able to download using Quicken with the CC-501 error. I have come to accept this, and usually purchasing the new version corrects this problem immediately. This year it didn't fix the problem, along with the bugs, black screens, hang ups when using the investment account register and trying to delete a downloaded transaction etc. Support acknowlegdes the problem, has no fix and has stopped responding to my inquiries about a resolution. Save your $$$ and stick with 2011. I have already requested a refund from Intuit, so far no response.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
very poor quality
I am not going to repeat all the bad things people have said about the 2012 release except to say I have experienced many of them and others not mentioned. Read more
Published 8 days ago by I. Tredler
Slower and more awkward to use
I am a programmer who sometimes does Windows programming, although I have not written anything on the scale of Quicken. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Erik W. Wolfner
Quicken 2012
Quicken keeps track of money well, but wants too much information of past investments and transactions. Had earlier version of Quicken and I liked it just fine. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Joyce
dont buy this
i downloaded quicken premier 2012 this afternoon and had nothing but trouble with it since. upgraded from quicken 2009 just out of support. running windows 7. Read more
Published 15 days ago by sad dan
After 20 years, so long Quicken........
I've been using Quicken since at least the early 1990's -- too long to remember exactly. I've noticed a consistent downward spiral in quality, design, and support for much of the... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Dog Lover
Don't Bother Upgrading
If this is your first time to use a personal accounting software, go for it, but if you are using Quicken 2010 or 2011, skip this one. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Kenneth R Rasure
Conversion from 2009 to 2012 a disaster
I have been a Quicken user for 20 years and I was extremely disappointed in the process for upgrading this product. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Matthew J Aloi
Get your act together Quicken
As a new Quicken user I'm disappointed. I purchased Quicken Premier excited to have automatic updates from all of our bank, investment, and mortgage accounts in one place. Read more
Published 25 days ago by ZL
A step backwards
Intuit released this product with several major flaws in the budgeting module. It worked pretty well in previous releases, but their changes for 2012 have made it way worse. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Berry Gibson
Installation problems, froze during update process
Installation of Q2012 Premier on a Vista Laptop. Process froze during the time period when program was attempting to do updates to the program. Read more
Published 26 days ago by D. Krug
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