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Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

by Intuit

Platform : Windows XP

82 customer reviews

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Perfect for home business owners and self-employed professionals
Track personal and business expenses in one place and see how your business is doing
Capture all your possible business deductions and see your tax deduction status throughout the year
Connect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single password
Make online banking even better--bring all your personal and business online accounts together in one place

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Product Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 6 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
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ASIN: B000U0AEE2
Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
Average Customer Review: 82 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,552 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #107 in Software > Accounting & Finance > Personal Finance > Money Management & Budgeting

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Stick with Quicken 2007

By Guybyny on January 3, 2008

As a long time Quicken user who upgrades to the latest release nearly every year I approached the 2008 version with great expectations. Integration with Paypal & personal cash flow tab amongst other touted enhancements.

First off, let me say that I have been using this software for nearly 3 months. I am up to Release 5. I would classify the problems with the 2008 version as follows:
1) Performance problems
2) Download woes
3) Data integrity /bugs

1) Performance problems - the program will go into spasms when trying to do anything as complex as adding a single transaction to the register. It will blink, sometimes for as long as 30 secs, before adding the transaction & returning control of the program to you. It is so slooooooooow that it can literally drive you crazy, that is if the flashing spasms of the program haven't sent you into epileptic shock first.

2)Download woes - Paypal integration? Not if you use their security dongle. Other downloads fail routinely with HSBC about 50% of the time due to "Quicken server issues" & with other financial institutions about 5-10% of the time. Much higher than I experienced with Quicken 2007. On the plus side I am now downloading from Janus, but that may have been possible in the 2007 version as well and I didn't realize it.

3)Data integrity & bugs - I'll only report my most frustrating here and that is in the tax planner. Enter a number manually & magically it disappears & defaults back to a Quicken estimate. After much trial & error I found a workaround - you need to exit the planner after entering a manual number, then re-launch it for that number to "stick". Totally unacceptable & unbelievable that in 5 releases it's still not fixed.Read more ›

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Upgraded from Quicken 2005

By Eric R on November 28, 2007

I recently upgraded to Quicken 2008 from Quicken 2005. I did this since the online downloading capabilities for Q2005 would end in April 2008.
(Quicken's policy is to support the current version, plus the prior two years)

I've been a Quicken user & fan since 1994. Quite frankly, I'm not overly impressed with 2008. It has a new navigation bar, a new look and feel, and some (very minor) enhancements. Underneath the look and feel, it acts just like Quicken 2005.

If you're familiar with Q2005, you'll feel (almost) at home with Q2008. Obviously, Intuit is having a challenging time making a great product even better.

Overall, I can't recommend upgrading to Q2008 if you're not forced by Intuit. There aren't enough compelling new enhancements to justify an upgrade. It's still a great product, but the upgrade to Q2008 isn't a major improvement.

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How Quicken Ruined My Weekened

By BuckyKat on January 7, 2008

I upgraded to Quicken 2008 Home & Business from the 2007 version on a Friday. I subsequently spent all Saturday and Sunday trying to recover from that disastrous decision. The bugs were numerous: unable to print invoices and some reports (others worked fine for some reason). Help file system was completely screwed up. It took me until Monday to get my accounts somewhat functional (on different accounting software), though I'm not out of the woods yet. Much more work ahead to recover from my Quicken nightmare. Oh, and you can forget about customer service. Their phone support system is an endless maze where you get to speak with NO ONE. Their LiveChat support never seems to connect with an agent. Email support is non-responsive. Don't let this happen to you.

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Don't upgrade if you can help it

By Brian Goetz on January 20, 2008

I've been a Quicken user for almost 20 years, and have always loved the product. But this upgrade is, for me, a huge downgrade. I upgraded from Q2005 because Quicken has a policy of sunsetting online services after three years, effectively forcing you to upgrade. Rather than waiting until forced, I bought this in a discount bundle with TurboTax 2007. Big mistake.

I bought it at the same time I bought a faster new PC. But the subjective performance is awful -- much, much worse. I'm sure I'm pushing it hard, with almost 20 years of financial data in my data file, but it shouldn't be this much slower than Q2005 (on a system that is so much faster.) It is absolutely painful to use.

There are probably cool new features, but I haven't found them, mostly because doing anything is so painful. I'd downgrade (at least until absolutely forced to move back) if the file formats weren't incompatible.

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If you're considering jumping into Quicken

By J. Nelson on September 14, 2007

You should ask yourself - "how can a piece of software be capable of generating so much hostility from its user base?" If you can't think up a good answer, go ahead and install Quicken, and you'll have an answer before long.

Some of my favorite quirks from Quicken 2006 & 2007 that I'm glad to see survived the upgrade to Quicken 2008:

Basic arithmetic errors: sometimes, if you edit transactions in the register, every subsequent transaction will get confused about the running total (e.g., change a $10 debit to a $20 debit, and instead of changing the running total by $10, watch in delight and amazement as the running total leaps by thousands, literally thousands, of dollars).

Basic reporting errors: go ahead and open the category list, and click the (very unintuitive) button to generate a report for the category _DivInc. If, like me, you have several years of investment transactions, you're sure to have dividend income, but Quicken will tell you "no transactions for this category." Funny, if you type _DivInc into the global search window, it will bring up all those transactions the report couldn't locate.

File corruption: sometimes, I like to imagine Quicken's routines as a bunch of angry little gnomes running around the traces of my processor and through the registers of my memory. This is because, every so often, the gnomes demand a sacrifice, and offer up burnt offerings of your data integrity to their terrible god of woe. I can't otherwise imagine how downloading QFX data from Hewitt Associates confused Quicken so - in the online center, it shows "number of outstanding transactions: -65,536" Yep, negative 2 to the 16th power of transactions outstanding.

Probably the worst part about Quicken, however, is trying to free your data.Read more ›

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Five Stars

Best version! Get all the the old updates off the Internet. Golden!

Published 1 month ago by 904DingKing

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Published 5 months ago by B. James

lost all my data. be warned

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Was happy to be able to update to the newer Quicken ...

Was happy to be able to update to the newer Quicken 2008 that works with Win 8.1, without having to buy the more expensive latest version. I don't need all of the newest features.

Published 18 months ago by Ron W.

not user friendly

I had had an earlier version of Quicken which was so user friendly and easy to post items and figures. This one is not user friendly and I put it back in the box.

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Met our need

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Quicken 2008 Home & Business

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