Quicken Deluxe 2012 [OLD VERSION]

by Intuit, Inc.

• Organizes your bank, credit card, investment accounts in one place
• Automatically categorizes expenses so you can see where you're spending
• Helps you create a budget and tracks your progress against it
• Alerts you to upcoming bills

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B005FIWT74
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.1 x 7.5 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Media: Software
• Release Date: October 4, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (497 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #950 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #26 in Software > Personal Finance > Money Management

Product Description

Platform: PC

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Quicken Deluxe Personal Finance Software

Set goals and manage your finances:

Organizes all your accounts - bank, credit card, investments, loans, retirement accounts - all 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


Creates a customized plan to help you get out of debt

Imports your data from previous versions of Quicken

Gets you set up in minutes with step-by-step guidance

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.

Upgraded! Free customer service
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.

Product Description

Quicken Deluxe Personal Finance Software helps you set goals and manage your finances so you can save and plan for tomorrow

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

289 of 297 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Same crap as the last two versions... October 14, 2011

By Robert W. Nilsen III

Platform for Display:PC Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

Quicken 2012 is a buggy disappointment.

Each year Intuit changes the look a little bit, adds one trivial feature, breaks a few things, then ships it like it's a "new product". And each year like a sheep I buy it, thinking "this time it'll be worth it". About half the time, I ask for my money back.

I am trying 2012 after using 2010 for the last two years. Honestly, I would try something else... but sadly there *is* nothing else.

The look is a little nicer than 2010, and everything else is very much the same... except for these bugs, which I saw in the first 15 minutes of use:

Bugs:
1) When you are entering a transaction as a transfer, it shows *all* your accounts... even closed accounts or accounts that you have marked as "hide". This is clearly a huge bug and a huge hassle. Nice quality control.
2) When you look at a budget item in a montly view, then click on a budget item... it shows an unsorted list of items from many months past. So, unlike the 2010 version, you can't actually tell which are the transactions that are being included in your budget. This is, again, a really dumb bug to having in your released software.
3) When I download transactions, then say "done"... it goes into automatic reconcile mode... then says "do you want to close the reconcile window w/o saving your work?" Like it's trying to close the window it just popped up. WTF?
4) When creating a new budget, the budget analyzer was running... then quicken put itself in the background. It was weird... some other window just popped up in front of quicken.
5) The first time I did a "one step update" the update window just sat there... it looked complete, but there was no "okay" button or "done" or anything. Nice.

Things that are annoying:
1) When starting up, quicken identified my 2010 quicken data file and says "restoring from backup". What backup? That file wasn't a "backup". Confusion from the get-go...
2) Really? I need to send Quicken my name, address, email, before I can connect to *my* bank and download *my* data? Didn't I just pay for this software? Why is registration immediately mandatory?
3) I thought downloads from my banks were supposed to be faster in this version, but in my experience they are not. Especially "Express Web Connect" banks... slow, slow, slow.
4) I would like the option to restore quicken to its default settings with this new version. I'm afraid of missing new features that I might have turned off.

In summary, Quicken 2012 is surprisingly buggy... and the bugs (especially #1 and #2) are bad and so readily apparent that I'm frightened about how many more bugs are yet to be discovered. I'm see no compelling reason whatsoever to keep this software and will probably try to return it and go back to using 2010.

Honestly, I couldn't have a lower opinion of Intuit for continuing year after year to release the same software again and again like it's new.

401 of 417 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars So So, probably don't need to upgrade October 4, 2011

By Jeremy Johnson

Platform for Display:PC

So Amazon started selling the digital download on Oct 1, the physical item starts shipping Oct 4 and the product still isn't called out on the manufacture's website. Select a product from their product list and it still takes you to the 2011 version. Can't be that big of an improvement if the company isn't even promoting it on their website. Makes you wonder.

Here is how my first hour went. After purchase I had the software downloaded and installed with-in 20-30 minutes. Prompted by the first step of the welcome screen I began setting up my accounts. At first I wasn't sure what was happening because it would saying it's connecting and getting data. Then the screen would disappear and start all over. I Finally figure out that it has to access each checking, savings, or credit card account individually even though it's all under the same user account. So what appeared as being stuck in a loop / bug was really just poor programming design.

The process picked up my checking, savings, and credit card account just fine but had an asterisk next to my mortgage account... read the fine print to find out that quicken is not compatible with my banks mortgage accounts and I have to set it up manually. Chase is not a small bank by any means, so I'm very surprised that this feature is unavailable.

I finally wanted to check and see if they listed whats new in this version. so I went to help and clicked on "Getting Started". I was kinda surprised to have it link me to the 2011 Getting Started Webpage; OOPS!

Finally went into the help document to find this weak list of new features:
* NEW! Large Fonts - Your finances are easier than ever to see and understand with large font support.
* NEW! Automatically Accept Investing Transactions - We've added a preference to enter downloaded transactions into your investing accounts as soon as they are received. And you can control this preference on an account-by-account basis!
* NEW! Investment transaction lists now include a Share Balance column.
* NEW! We've added more Account Bar icons to make it even easier to see when something needs your attention in an account. Just click an icon and Quicken tells you what it means, and takes you to the area in the program where you can resolve it.

and this list of redesigns and improvements:
* REDESIGNED! Budgets - It's easier to set goals and stay in control of your finances with our redesigned budget tool.
* REDESIGNED! Debt Reduction Planner - Create a customized plan to reduce your debt--new interactive tools make it easy for you to stick to your plan.
* REDESIGNED! Property Dashboard - Get a true picture of your net worth with our new Property dashboard.
* IMPROVED! Quicken Transfer Format (QXF) Support - You now have the ability to import and export .QXF files. This facilitates the exchange of data between Quicken Essentials for Mac and other Quicken Windows versions.
IMPROVED! You'll notice snappier performance while accepting downloaded transactions and opening Security Detail View--especially if you have a lot of accounts or securities.
* IMPROVED! See how much you really have left to spend with simplified bill and income reminders.

Reading the reviews on the last version, the software seemed to have been riddled with advertisements; I have yet to cross one in 2012. Previous version also had complaints about tools being removed and new ones being of poor quality... From what I can tell. there are enough reports and tools to cover any previous tool that may have been available. I can not yet attest to their quality. Looking at the support page however, there does seem to be a current issue with connecting to Bank of America for account updates and other random errors with express web accounts.

Overall not an impressive update. It's ok upgrade to the couple year old version I had used.. but does not sound like a needed upgrade from any recent version. If you have 2010 or 2011, stick with it and save your money.

160 of 165 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Total Disaster. Avoid. October 11, 2011

By B. McPherson

Platform for Display:PC

I'm a compulsive upgrader so I pulled the trigger on this. Wish I hadn't. I spent a lot of time setting up monthly budgets (i.e. where I could easily track household monthly spending). When you click on the prgress bar in the "new" budgets, it gives you not the amount you have spent that month, but the last 3 months instead. Totally useless.

Also - not all of my stocks automatically update anymore - i have to click on the security and hit "upate." Not helpful

Finally, a weird bug - each day it gives me a weird message saying "Looks like your system clock has changed (yeah - the previous day ended and the new one began)"Would you like to restart Quicken?"

This used to be the best finance software - no longer. Maybe they are spending all of their time and money on the online version? In any event, stay with the version you have, save the money.