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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Model: 409948
• Released on: 2009-09-16
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
• Format: Download
• Original language: English

Features

• Quicken Deluxe 2010 helps you set personal finance goals and save more
• Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
• Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
• Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year
• Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation

Amazon.com Product Description
Quicken Deluxe 2010 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings.

An intuitive "Spending Planner" summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Click to enlarge.

See your full financial picture at a glance. Click to enlarge.

Getting started is a breeze. Click to enlarge.

Avoid late fees and penalties. Click to enlarge.

Get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. Click to enlarge.

Set personal finance goals and save more

• Shows where you're spending and helps you see where to save
• Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
• Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
• Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits

Features and Benefits

Watch your savings grow
We make it easy to get on--and stay on--a budget. Set suggested spending limits and savings goals based on the information you enter into Quicken day-by-day.

An intuitive "Spending Planner" summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Check your progress at a glance, and quickly see where you have room to spend or need to save more.

Quicken Deluxe can also help you create customized plans to reduce/eliminate debt--and to save for a house, college, retirement or large purchase.

See where your money's going
Quicken Deluxe shows you what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over to spend or save. Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year.

View your accounts all in one place
Organizes your finances by bringing your online accounts together--including checking, savings and credit cards. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

Never miss a bill
See what bills have already been paid, what's coming up, and if you have enough left in your accounts to cover them--all in one convenient place. Set reminders to pay bills on time and instantly check the status of past bills.

Simplify taxes with TurboTax
Quicken Starter Edition pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.

Enjoy free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new Quicken personal finance software, free phone support is available. For more information, visit our Help & Support site.

100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you're not 100% satisfied, return your Quicken Deluxe 2010 personal finance software with your dated receipt within 60 days of purchase for a refund of the purchase price (return shipping and handling charges not included).

Save money and shop smart
Our free service--Quicken Picks--seeks out the best online coupons and discount offers just for you, on the stuff you care about. You also get cash back on all your purchases, helping you save even more. You can sign up for Quicken Picks anytime within your Quicken software.

Easily import from Microsoft Money
If you've been using Microsoft Money personal finance software, we can help you transfer your valuable financial information to Quicken.4 With our easy-to-use Data Converter tool, you'll be up-and-running with Quicken in practically no time.

What's New in 2010

Already using Quicken? Reasons to upgrade now:

New--See your most important info in one place
The new Quicken home page puts all your most important financial information in one easy-to-understand window, so you can see how you're doing at a glance.

Improved--Find the tools you need, faster
The improved menu and toolbar make it easier to find the tools you need to help organize your personal finances.

New--Getting started is a breeze
It's simpler than ever to put Quicken to work for you--so you can reach your personal finance goals faster. With the new Guided Setup, you just answer a few simple questions; we'll show you how Quicken works, and what to do next. You'll see your total financial picture come into focus even sooner than you expect.

New--Avoid late fees and penalties
We help you avoid overdraft fees and penalties--by showing you how much you'll have left in your account until your next paycheck.

Improved--Check for accuracy
We've made it easier to review your transactions, so you can quickly spot anything that looks inaccurate or out of place. If a transaction requires follow-up, you can flag it with a reminder.

Improved--Get tips from other Quicken users
With Quicken's Live Community, you can get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. If you have a question about something specific you're trying to do, just look to Live Community on the right of the Quicken screen for the answer.

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Customer Reviews

Very disappointed and Intuit will not refund!
I've been using Quicken 2008 and decided to buy and download Quicken 2010 this afternoon. After installing I was very disappointed to find that the free online version actually was better suited for my needs than the purchased copy. The online version has more options with my bank (it can pull loan infomation while the Deluxe edition cannot) and I don't use many of the other features that warrant the cost of this one.

I decided that I would ask for the refund that is advertised with the product:

"100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you're not 100% satisfied, return your Quicken Deluxe 2010 personal finance software with your dated receipt within 60 days of purchase for a refund of the purchase price (return shipping and handling charges not included). "

I sat, waiting in queue for half an hour to get a support person on a live chat to request my refund. He told me that they will not honor the refund because I bought the download version and I would have to request it from Amazon. In my opinion, that "Satisfaction Guarantee" needs to state that if you buy a download edition you have to go back to the retailer. There is no clarification of that before I click to buy and it's not as if I'm buying from a non-reputable source I trust that a purchase from Amazon will follow any requirements from the manufacturer. A quick look at the policy and Amazon has clearly stated that "Downloadable software products" are not returnable. I hope that they will work with me on this more than Intuit, but, as it stands I'm stuck with software that I don't want and a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee" that is not being honored.

I only give the application 2 stars because if your banks fully support the features that you need and you use more features than those which are available in the free online version then it may be worth the cost, just don't buy the download unless you have to have it right away!

Really bad product.
I have been a Microsoft Money user and switched to Quicken 2009 when Microsoft announced they would discontinue Money. While Quicken 2009 was not perfect, it did what it was supposed to do (mostly). Given that I had a large amount of legacy Money data, I decided to try (as in buy) Quicken 2010 mostly for its in-built Money converter. I should have stuck to Quicken 2009 because it has been an incredibly frustrating experience so far.

Every time I tried to open a file, I kept getting the dreaded "Quicken Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close" error making the program virtually un-usable. I got in touch with Quicken support (after a 30 minute wait) who essentially asked me to re-install the software using the QcleanUI method. This seemed to work fine for about 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes that it worked, I figured it would not update some accounts which previously updated without a hitch (in Quicken 2009). I am now back to getting the dreaded quicken launcher error every time I try to open a file.

Bottomline, Quicken 2010 is plain un-usable at this point. Apparently, I cannot get a refund if the product is downloaded via Amazon. So much for 60-day no questions asked money-back guarantee. I hate it when things don't work when they should. Quicken 2010 unfortunately, does not work.

Quicken 2010 is an excellent version of an old stand-by
I have been using Quicken since version 1 or 2 in the late eighties. It has always had some annoying peculiarities I admit, and it has occasionally frustrated me, but hey, so has my wife, and we have stayed happily married a lot longer than I have been using Quicken. I use Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax regularly. I have used Quicken on every MS OS since DOS 3, and on every platform since the 8086 days until my current home-built Core Duo with Win 7 64 bit. Inuit forces me to update much more often than I prefer, and I wish they would just allow me to pay an annual fee and use their automated update system to modify the software under the hood instead of forcing me to upgrade every three years in order to continue the online updates of my financial institutions.

Anyway, seeing several negative reviews of Quicken on Amazon was surprising to me, and I decided to chime in to give a little balance. Having used this product consistently for over 20 years, I can say without hesitation that is the most trouble free, least complicated piece of software I have ever used. It has quirks; downloading data from financial institutions is still a work in progress, but honestly, 99.44% of the time, the software and downloads work really well, and the 2010 version is improved over the 2008 version as far as the interface with the financial institutions. I upgraded because ver. 2010 is designed to work with Win 7 64 bit. I have over 200,000 transactions in my data file, and have never lost so much as a decimal point. Of course, I back up each time I make entries or download data as well. The program also makes regular backups in its program data file. There is NO way to lose Quicken data; there are too many redundant files for that to happen.
I cannot speak for Money users' woes when migrating to Quicken, but I imagine a little searching on Quicken and/or Money user forums or Google searches could provide some assistance for their issues. And, being a regular shopper at Amazon and having dealt with Intuit CS occasionally over the years, I am very suspect about not being able to come to some satisfactory resolution with either of the companies about refunds or credits if the claims are legitimate. Neither company is hard-nosed. (If you want to deal with a company that really doesn't care about their customers, try AT&T, but I digress.)

I see at least one individual has had trouble with his scheduled transactions working and unsuccessful in modifying those transactions. At a certain point, if the medium is unreliable, it would seem they would either change their method of doing business, or go online to the free Quicken forums and discover how others are coping with the same problems, with the same software, and same financial institutions. Or--like Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh--they can just sit on the nettle and complain about it hurting their bottom if that is their idea of fun.

Intuit is an American corporation that has managed to dodge the take-overs, competitors, and new concepts that have made so many other companies disappear. I give them credit for producing reliable, intuitive, straight forward financial software that simplifies home and small business accounting for those of us who need the help. And, no, I do not work for or even own stock in Intuit.