Intuit Quicken Home & Business 2008

Full Product - MPN: 028287016729

Description: If you have a home business or are self-employed, you need Quicken Home & Business 2008. It is the only Quicken software that brings your personal and business finances together, while letting you manage them both separately, for a complete view of your financial picture.

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kunny from IL

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Sep 2005

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Good Product, but could be better.

Strengths:

Much Improved Interface.

Weaknesses:

The online services will expire in few years. The product has recurring expenses. You will be forced to purchase the new version (full product). Quicken does not sell upgrades for existing customers.

Posted Feb 18, 2008 - This is a good product. The only sore point in this entire range of products is that quicken tricks you to buy a new version every 3 years. They dont even sell an upgrade. So you have to invest in the entire product. In this case, the product costs $100 (available cheaper at pricegrabber). So imagine, you have to purchase a new box after 2 or 3 years. Quicken almost blackmails the users by warning that if you dont upgrade, then the online services will be taken off. If you get used to the product (like me) then you are forced to buy. Unfortunately, I did not have time to research other products. So if you want to avoid recurring expenses, stay away from Quicken.

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jlhaney12065

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Oct 2007

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User has 4 Days of experience with this product

Quicken Home & Business

Strengths:

I think it's a huge improvement over the 2004 version. Easier uploads of banking, credit cards. Much better memory on expense categories for downloaded transactions. Decent tracking of investments.

Weaknesses:

List price is a bit high for basically a checkbook only package.

Posted Nov 4, 2007 - I have to say there was a huge improvement in the 2008 version over what was in the 2004. The look and feel is more polished than the earlier version. I'm looking forward to a version that will allow account transfers from one expense account to another - all that it allow currently is balance sheet accounts.

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thriftymatt

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Aug 2005

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User has 7 Days of experience with this product

just what I needed at a good price point

Strengths:

easy to use,functionally whatI need

Weaknesses:

can\\\'t think of any

Posted Dec 26, 2007 - Was using a free version of quickbooks, but it didn\'t do everything I needed. I did not want or need to invest in a full version of quickbooks. Quicken does fulfills whatI need to do at a reasonable price.

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Dennoman

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Oct 2007

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User has 30 Days of experience with this product

Quicken strengths and weakness

Strengths:

Wonderful reporting and graphic capabilities. Love the new Tag line option when entering transactions. Makes reporting on a specific trip or multiple expenses towards a common expense so easy.

Weaknesses:

Still get a flickering display which has been prevelant in the last version

Posted Nov 6, 2007 - All in all I love this product. It continues to get better and offers some neat new reporting opportunities. I would highly recommend getting the program. Also, the budgeting reports and queries are great for setting up a first time and lasting budget. Hope this report helps.

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bobfrank from GA

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Oct 2002

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User has 10 Years of experience with this product

Quicken Home and Business 2008

Strengths:

easy to learn and use.

Weaknesses:

lack some flexibility in file placing.

Posted Apr 3, 2008 - Excellent product. 8th or 9th yearly version I have used in the last 10 years. Continues to help my finances run smoothly. Works well with my bank and credit card accounts. Really helps at tax time.

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DrTub from PA

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Jan 2008

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User has 2 Months of experience with this product

Quicken Home and Business

Strengths:

Ease of use.

Weaknesses:

For what I want it to do, I don't find any weaknesses!

Posted Feb 13, 2008 - I run a small home business and this program does all that I need without getting into serious accounting proceedures that are not need for the amount of bookeeping I must do!

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markandmarin...

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Apr 2008

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Quicken Home and business 2008

Strengths:

Sounds like it would be really cool if my bank used it.

Weaknesses:

My bank uses old versions of Quicken. I assumed that since I was getting a new version that old versions would have no trouble downloading my bank information into it. It's useless.

Posted May 20, 2008 - I either have to transfer all my business to a different bank that uses up to date Quicken or enter all my banking manually. The whole point was to use the auto update feature. I can manually enter my banking into a spreadsheet.

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david238

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Mar 2008

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User has 30 Days of experience with this product

Quicken Home & Business

Strengths:

Ease of use. Way it uses transaction "flags" to identify business transactions made from personal checking & credit card accounts. I have always liked the way the Quicken registers look just like a paper checkbook register.

Weaknesses:

I haven't found any yet.

Posted Apr 25, 2008 - I've used Quicken since the late 1980's when Intuit had less than 20 employees. I haven't found any software that's better. I recently upgraded to Home & Business from Deluxe 2004, partly because Intuit quit supporting 2004 versions and partly because my wife recently started a home-based business. So far Home & Business does everything I expected it to do and more. I track self-directed IRAs, stock transactions and other retirement accounts as well as the business transactions. I think Home & Business will work great for our relatively simple business with no inventory or employees. For a more complex business with lots of assets (equipment, vehicles), employees, inventory and lines of credit, etc. Quickbooks would probably be a better choice.

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chadduppong

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Mar 2008

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It's what you need

Strengths:

Easy

Weaknesses:

Not much

Posted Apr 8, 2008 - Quicken is a great tool to get your business off on the right foot. The software does what it needs to do without much of an effort on your part.

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ckjoyce from PA

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Aug 2004

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User has 1 Month of experience with this product

Quicken Home & Business 2008

Strengths:

Great for a small business owner who needs simple invoicing. Better reports available.

Weaknesses:

Don't like the NEW tag system as register is now too cluttered.

Posted Mar 31, 2008 - Forced to upgrade to this 2008 program in order to receive updates. Have not found any of the new features to be needed. "New" features not worth the price unless you are forced to upgrade.

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shuchihsu

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Mar 2008

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Quicken

Strengths:

Easy to use

Weaknesses:

no protection

Posted Mar 31, 2008 - It will be good if there is one more layer of security for the software. So if I loss my computer, nobody can get into all the private file! However it's a good start for beginners.

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milkncookie

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Feb 2008

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User has 2 Days of experience with this product

Quicken Home & Business 2008

Strengths:

It still tracks my money, just like the earlier versions.

Weaknesses:

Does not actually download PayPal transactions, like it says it does. No noticeable functionality improvements over the previous editions.

Posted Mar 10, 2008 - I'm not extremely impressed with Intuit's latest edition of Quicken Home & Business. I was expecting the software to work with my banks (including PayPal) better, but it doesn't. I seem to get all sorts of download errors telling me that something is wrong with the Quicken server, and when I google the problem, no one else knows how to fix it, although they are all suffering from the same problems. I suppose Quicken still tracks my money fine, and I'll probably keep buying the new version whenever the old one "expires," as long as the basic functionality continues to work.

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lorenglenn

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Feb 2008

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User has 5 Days of experience with this product

Powerful means Complex

Strengths:

Can juggle home and business funds together.

Weaknesses:

Takes some time to learn to setup and use all of the features.

Posted Feb 25, 2008 - It's a great convenience to be able to import online bank and investment data, but having that feature expire unless you upgrade frequently just doesn't set well with me. You may well not need an upgrade for any other reason.

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shopper123ab... from CO

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Jan 2008

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User has 30 Days of experience with this product

quicken 2008 home and office

Strengths:

EASE OF USE

Weaknesses:

TO SEPERATE BUSINESS FROM PERSONAL YOU MUST CATAGORISE WITH A 1099

Posted Feb 20, 2008 - GREAT PRUDCT I HAVE BEEN USING FOR APPROXIMATELY 8 YEARS. WOULD RECOMMEND TO OTHERS FOR A NOT TO COMPLICATED BUSINEES. DO NOT LIKE TO UPDATE EVERY FEW YEARS FOR NONE SUPPORT AT BANKS

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