Quicken Software

Pros

The similarities to the older versions makes it easy to pick up on. It can link to your accounts and automatically download transactions.

Cons

They moved some of the features I used regularly and it took me a while to figure it out. I know how to do what I want now, but it takes a lot of button clicks to get there.

This is the best product I have found to stay on top of our finances.

Pros

Quicken is easy to use and gives the ability to stay on top of your finances! From checking and savings, credit cards, mortgages and more!

Cons

You have to pay Quicken in order to pay your bills on a monthly basis. I don't have to pay my bank, so I have to pay through my bank, and then manually add those payments to Quicken.

Pros

I like the ability to track finances quickly, accurately, and predictively. You can track multiple accounts including investments, predicting retirements, tracking budgets, and recommending solutions for financial goals.

Cons

A bit pricey. Also very time consuming. Though it's getting better all the time. This makes it a bit unwieldy.

Pros

The ease of maintaining your checkbook, which also acts as your 'bookkeeping'. The autofill and memorized/recurring transactions.

Cons

I don't really have any complaints. It would be nice if you didn't have to upgrade so often or if they supplied automatic updates like some software packages.

Pros

customer service is pretty good. Customer service is pretty good.....did I say the customer service is

Cons

doesn't always download all transactions....too easily it doubled each transaction...I have to go and manually change the Payee. all the payees have the same name. too many problem with software.

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Pros

Quicken has a lot of nice features and is fairly straight forward to use. The graphs and reporting capabilities seemed pretty decent however I didn’t use them a whole lot.

Cons

Didn’t like the fact that you couldn’t go in and edit any previous entry from the past. Almost like once it was set it was concrete. You could erase but not edit them.

Pros

I love the ease of use of this product and how straight forward the layout is. It is also very affordable

Cons

With this product, I have not seen any cons to this product as yet. I am enjoying it so far with no complaints.

Pros

Absolutely nothing.
I would like both my money and my time back (3 weekends wasted)
No Quicken Support exists.

Cons

Quicken has fallen very far.
It used to be THE name in personal financial software. It has gotten too big and too old and needs a serious overhaul.
We went through the 7 hours long painful process of linking all our accounts to the software (banking, credit cards, investments, etc) but the software cannot connect with any banks or firms reliably. It brings in duplicate transactions or no transactions and the balances are never right. I have wasted several weekends trying to wrestle with this software. Quicken blames the banks, but really how can multiple national banks be wrong when Quicken is the company we are paying for this service. It's their job to get it right, not blame every bank in America for poor connectivity.

The investment and retirement planning tools simply do not work. Adjust your retirement age from 65 to 70... nothing changes. Add your current 401k deferral rate: it says you will have zero net worth at retirement.

Support? There is no support for Quicken. Unless you call the phone number during business hours and hold for 30 minutes. There is no email support. Quicken admits it discontinued email support in 2013 to 'better serve customers'. Sure. The Community Support posting site is not even run by Quicken, you need to sign up for www.getsatisfaction.com to post any issues. Money completely wasted.

Run far away from this product.

I found that the financial planning tools are quite helpful and it is also helpful that the Quicken software can provide "Reminders" for certain transactions. Obviously you would have to remember to set these Reminders up in the Software itself initially, but once set-up this is very helpful going forward.

Pros

The product is capable of showing a very basic overview of a client's activity. I thought this would work well for clients that do not have a ton of different account transactions to post throughout a period and also for clients that do not use a bunch of different accounts (This gets to be messy when there are too many accounts) I also think the software is beneficial to help with budgeting a being able to get a daily look at a client's activity.

Cons

I did not like the fact that you can not post Journal Entries to move amounts between different accounts. When adjusting a client's Books this is very necessary to be able to record JEs to move around different amounts within the Balance Sheet and Income Statement. Another Con was that the software is difficult to upload and/or transfer into QuickBooks if you are trying to convert between the two.

Pros

Quicken is easy to use and has a good amount of funtions to see where you are financially are at any given time.

Cons

The automatic import function needs to be updated and re-vamped. Today's users want to have automatic importing of their account transactions into one place. Quicken requires you to login and use a password every time.

I was able to get some one live to help. But the program still had not been proficient as it should be. I would think at this day and age that their system would be virtually bug free.

Pros

It was simple to download and economical. Once i figured out the reports they looked good and provided good info.

Cons

It is a very difficult program for the average person who is not as expert in financial software. There are no video tutorials. The system seems to crash and fail to update correctly.

Like the software overall.

Pros

I have been using Quicken for almost 2 years. The ease of the reporting and categorizing the expenses is very easy to do. The resultant reports for tax purposes is great.

Cons

Until a month ago everything was good. Now I cannot get my bank account to sync with Quicken. I have performed all the troubleshooting recommendations with no success. Each time i deactivate an account I have to wait two days before I can see if this function worked. Two weeks and no success. Also, Quicken tells me that the error is not my banks issue but Quickens.

I use Quicken for two very different entities: 1) a small nonprofit support organization and 2) our former small business and our personal accounting needs. It works well for both these.

Pros

The ease in entering data, and the ability to produce reports that are useful. It is not necessary to use ALL the features offered by Quicken software. One can pick and choose what is useful for their needs.

Cons

I have not found flaws in this software. I have not yet found an easy way to convert reports into pdf format in order to provide to others who cannot access Quicken reports. I am certain there is a way to do this, I just have not taken the time to work through the process.

Don't try it unless you're sure you're gonna keep it because they won't give you your money back if you purchase from 3rd party (they say they will).

Pros

At first it seemed great - hooked up to all my accounts and showed me my net worth, etc. I really didn't like much else... No benefit over my quicken 2007 and much more costly

Cons

After 2 weeks, it stopped connecting to my accounts and I was unable to solve the problem. It had the correct passwords and answers to verification questions, just refused to connect. Tried to get money back and they won't respond!

I wouldn't track my finances with anything else. I have been using this since the early 90's

Pros

It keeps all my financial records in one place.
If you can write a check and use a check register you can use this software

Cons

There is very little to dislike. It doesn't work well for other than simple business finances. If it isn't powerful enough there is always QuickBooks.

Pros

The product is easy to use, accurate, and blends with banking protocols and apps. I like the fact that it helps you plan and budget your money and see exactly where you’re spending is going.

Cons

You must be very careful to categorize your spending accurately so that the app can help you budget your spending. If you need customer service, the number of times I have called them fortunately has been few because they are little or no help

Being able to access the software remotely (finally!) is a huge win.

Pros

You can quickly track investments, keep your portfolio in check and import a variety of different types of transactions. This helps you get up and running quickly, especially when you're moving from another system.

Cons

There are still some limitations with Quicken that have been around for quite a while. It would be nice to have a warning when you're getting "close" to spending through your budget, but that's not a core function of the system. Small tweaks could make this platform much more user friendly and useful!

Pros

I use Quicken both for personal use, and as part of our budget for a grant that I work on. Quicken really helps me to see how much cashflow I have coming in, what my monthly expenditures are, and what's left over. The analytical tools help me look at how I can improve for the next month, and where our team at work can continue to save money as we move forward with our projects.

Cons

Sometimes Quicken takes a while to load for some reason, although this could be a computer issue rather than an issue with the software.

Pros

I love that we can consolidate all of our banking, savings, business and credit card accounts into one location to categorize every expense. It downloads automatically at sign on so it's really limited on the amount of effort needed.

Cons

The memorized transaction function is a bit tricky to get used to. The software attempts to memorize transactions so you don't have to re-enter info on future transactions if similar type or same vedor so I do think it important to reverie ever transaction individually when accepting them into your register.

Pros

Quick click for access to most account information generate reports quickly for accounting. Great product!

Cons

Took a little while to get accustomed to use, but overall great program!! Really don't have any negative comments about this program.