Product Description

Quicken 2007 Premier

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4291 in Software
• Brand: Intuit
• Model: 298338
• Released on: 2006-08-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• No rebate needed - not eligible for Intuit mail in rebates.
• Get instant insights into your spending with quick reports, charts and graphs
• Easily track and analyze the performance of your investments and 401(k)s; powerful investment tools help you define your goals and conduct research
• Connect with over 4,000 participating financial institutions to download your bank and credit card information for easy reconciliation
• Keeps all your tax documents in one place; use Schedule A, B, and D tax reports to help you stay on top of your tax situation throughout the year

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If you know how to track your finances through your check book, you'll find Quicken Premier 2007 a breeze to use. Just like your checking account, Quicken Premier lets you easily track where you money goes and where it comes from. But unlike your checkbook, which can take hours to balance, Quicken Premier 2007 can help you reconcile your bank statements in a matter of minutes. With more than 123 customer-suggested improvements over the 2006 version, Quicken Premier 2007 is designed to make tracking your personal finances easier than ever. Quicken Premier 2007 lets you control your spending. With a single click, you can run reports that will show you exactly where you're money is going, and how much is coming in. You'll never find budgeting your finances, or managing your investments, so easy.

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Pay Bills On Time, Every Time
With improved tools to help you control spending and pay bills on time, Quicken Premier 2007 gives you the option of either writing and printing checks from your computer, or paying them directly online. An easy-to-use reminders feature, along with an easy-to-read calendar, means that you'll never have to pay another late fee or penalty again. Simply set the reminder, or set your automatic online payment, and you're all set.

Tax Time? No Problem!
When it's time to check in with the tax man, Quicken Premier 2007 will take care of everything. By letting your transfer you data directly into TurboTax software (sold separately), you'll avoid hours of headaches trying to gather all the information you need for the IRS, and you'll greatly reduce the possibility of losing important data that could save you money in taxes. Quicken Premier 2007 will help you to optimize your returns and avoid April 15th surprises by putting all your tax documents in one place and attaching receipts and other tax information. The software will seamlessly help you to use Schedule A, B, and D Tax Reports to help you stay on top of your investment tax situation throughout the year.

Planning for Today and Tomorrow
Quicken Premier 2007 is designed to give you the control you need over your home finances and investments. An improved access to all of your accounts from one place and with just one password, along with improved compatibility with more than 4,000 participating financial institutions, means that you'll have all the information you need about your balances at your fingertips at all times.

Quicken will also save you time by letting you download your bank and credit card transactions so that you can easily track your checking, savings and credit card accounts all in one place. Because Quicken does all the math for you, you'll not only be able to reconcile your statements in minutes instead of hours, you'll also feel absolutely confident that your finances are accurate.

Stay on top of your cash flow and expenses with Quicken Premier's simple, yet powerful, interface. View larger.

With Quicken Premier 2007 you can easily create and follow a budget, so you can always have a compete, accurate view of what's coming in, what's going out and what's left over at the end of the month. With improved image attachment for statements, checks and other records, and a new homepage that lets you more easily view your financial situation, Quicken Premier 2007 is designed to empower you with all the tools that you need to keep your family finances in order.

And to help you keep continual track of your investments, Quicken can help you to easily track and analyze the performance of your stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs and 401(k)s. By putting all of your investment accounts at the tip of your fingers, you can quickly compare your portfolio to market averages so you can see how you're doing. With the software's powerful investment management tools, you can define your goals and conduct your own research. Quicken Premier will also send you investment alerts. You can get the latest news on your favorite stocks and funds so you can make informed and timely decisions. Intelligent and tax-smart investing insights alert you to more tax-efficient investments, opportunities to offset capital gains or losses, or when other taxable events occur.

But managing how you invest and spend your money today is only part of the challenge. Quicken Deluxe 2007 is designed to help you plan for the future as well. Quicken makes it simple to plan for a vacation, new home, tuition, retirement and much more. You can also analyze your net worth by tracking your assets and liabilities and net worth through detailed, easy-to-read charts and graphs that show you both the big picture and the finer details.

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Customer Reviews

an unimpressive upgrade
I've been a Quicken user since 1994 and routinely upgraded every two years. This version leaves a lot to be desired. Intuit is so anxious to make every feature available from every page that the layout is cluttered with dialogue buttons and useless space. For everything else a user may do with Quicken, it is still basically a checkbook. In Quicken 2005 I could view 16 checkbook entries without scrolling, now I'm reduced to 11.
My account bar used to show 15 accounts, now it's down to 8. I have over thirty custom reports which now require multiple mouse operations to get through, not to mention the fact that they will all have to be re-customized and re-saved just to get rid of the graphs that Intuit gratuitously stuck in my work. Scheduled transactions? Prepare to scroll HORIZONTALLY through columns that few of us use. Want to import your 2005 Turbotax data? Get ready for an error message that says "Import failed, tax year not supported" If you use the home inventory feature you may see "not enough room on [x] drive" (Gee, you'd have thought 25 gigs was enough) Oh, and the tax planner acts like it's had a lobotomy. Darn that import bug!
I've never sent a Quciken product back in ten years but this one is out of here tomorrow. Too bad I can't return it to Amazon.....

Cries Out For More Testing-- As Usual
I wanted to like this upgrade. Really. However, I now treat it as the forlorn stepchild of Quicken 2005, unworthy of any promising words. Since Intuit has adopted its "upgrade once a year" policy, I've maintained that you should only upgrade Quicken every other year, and then only after one or two online updates are available.

At this point, I'm considering once every three years. Here are some items I ran into in the first week alone:

* The first thing it did when I upgraded is to totally trash my online PIN numbers, so when I perform an online update, most of my online accounts wouldn't download transactions and instead came back with login errors.

* Speaking of which, my setup attempts to perform an online update on startup, and therefore asks for my vault password. Hit Cancel, and it still raises the "One Step Update Settings" window, just without the passwords (what good is that?).

* Click the "Only Show This Dialog When An Error Occurs" button in the Online Update results, and it ignores you and shows you all successful results anyway.

* Try to change my budget numbers, and neither the Summary tab in the budget window or the "Budget Progress Goals" item in my "Quicken Home" page picks up the changes. Delete the current budget and start over, and the "Budget Progress Goals" just picks a number out of thin air most of the time.

* The "Credit Card Accounts" item on the "Quicken Home" page still insists on displaying accounts that I've requested be hidden throughout Quicken (i.e., I've closed the account with the credit card company).

* Sometimes the "Expenses" item on my "Quicken Home" page says there is no data available for the current month, while other times it gives the correct data. It seems to bounce back and forth between the two quite a bit.

So, do your head and your medicine cabinet a favor and wait a little on this one until Intuit starts getting fixes out.

Using Quicken 2007 is like trying to learn how to use a computer for the first time
After 2 days wasting nights to use this software, I'm giving up and sending it back for a full refund. I felt like many times ready to throw my laptop out the window. There's no video tutorial like Quicken 6. Intuit's endorsed manual costs extra which should have been included in the box. There's a very basic hand holding setup for adding your first bank account. Then I'm left out in the cold to figure this thing on my own.

This software can't import QIF file format from Fidelity NetBenefits accounts. Intuit's phased out QIF support because it is an outdated format. As a consumer, I DON'T CARE. Just make it work. My choices were to enter my 401k entries for the last 2 years manually by hand, or shell out money to buy Quicken 2004 that support QIF import, then upgrade to Quicken 2007. I already paid $60 for the software to help with my hectic day to day life; not to make it worse.

There's no transaction merging feature after all downloaded transactions has been accepted. So if you have multiple online accounts with downloaded transactions and want to transfer funds , you'll get duplicate entries. You can't select the duplicate entries in each account and make them merge into one. How can the company Intuit make their software so un-Intuitive? The software make me feel I have to use the software as Intuit expects. Without a manual, I have no way to know what they expect me to do.

People who've been using this software for years would feel comfortable with this software, but for those that are new or hasn't upgrade in a while, its just too much hassle.