Quicken Home & Business 2009 [OLD VERSION]

Best thing to use for a little Sub-S company like mine. All I do is put in the numbers and Quicken does the heavy lifting that I either can't do or don't want to fool with. It gives me information that helps me track growth and plan for more. These guys really understand small business and when they upgrade they seem to know what you need before you do. Quicken has made the last ten years pretty painless for me.

A QUICK REVIEW.I'm not big into home financial software as I prefer using a paid accountant.But being a careful person I do like to 'recheck my own figures' As I am both a writer and small business person.I've read in other reviews where later versions of Quicken were either 'Buggy' or couldn't connect online to retrieve your banking or stock figures etc?.Anyhow the 09 version was the last one issued that had good reviews so I bought it and as a bonus feature it also runs well on LINUX computers which is a big plus for Commercial Writers and other professional types like me.Granted its not the 'Latest Version' but it does suit my purposes and that's where its at.IndianaED

I first have to agree with the prior posts that the updates LOOK great, & I really wanted to give this a better rating, but not all of the new features are working. I downloaded this and upgraded from 2007 just for all of the new tax prep in it...and it doesn't work! I guess because it's 2009 it won't import Turbo Tax .tax files any older than 2008 (really?), it won't even let you manually enter your 2007 tax information into the tax planner (the drop down has an option for 2008 & 2009 only). This isn't tax planning! This is crazy. If you don't own any other version and you need it now or this isn't a feature you need (if you're buying this version I can't imagine you won't need it) then it's great...but don't plan on it being fully functional until 2009 I guess.

I bought it to move from 2006 to 2009 to download banking statements, as my bank as well as a lot of services, are moving on with newer technology, and our business still uses XP as the operating systems. Our bank claimed that the 2009 would work, but it didn't!We gave it a one star rating because it's just old technology, with no support any more! It's our fault for not being caught up in the New Version should be product updates, buying trend every year! The Product in 2009 was probably a 5 star Buy, but not Today. We purchased the 2105 version, and all is well!

I finally decided to upgrade to Quicken 2009 H&B from Quicken-6, which I've used reliably for 13 years. After upgrading, I was so appalled by Q2009 that I decided to download MS Money 2009 and convert my original database from Quicken-6 to MSM2009 in order to produce a readable report. That is, a full transaction listing, subtotaled by category and subcategory, with subtotals delineated at the bottom of each transaction group, and groups separated by blank lines to make it all readable. Is that too much to ask? Unfortunately, in Q2009, to report transactions subtotaled by category, you are given an expandable tree of the categories, which you can click to expand downwards to subcategories and transactions, with all subtotals at the top of each group, and no spacing to make it readable, so all numbers are always in one long unbroken list. At the Quicken user forum, their experts just advise complainants to export their report to MS Excel, then cut and paste. Bugs I've noticed so far include random behavior in the expandable-tree report: it doesn't always remember which branches you expanded, the expand and contract buttons do not always work, clicking on a transaction highlights it in dark blue that hides the whole line, and the scroll wheel gets stuck to the report subtotal selection so I keep inadvertently flipping through formats while trying to scroll down the report. The print function forgets your page mode, no longer has the original fit-to-page option, and previews pages with the header missing followed by phantom pages with just the header. On the other hand, it turns out MS money is no gem either. Transaction reports in MSM2009 group subcategories nicely, but all subtotals are just another non-labelled entry at the bottom of each group, with no visual separation from the transaction amounts. The visuals and navigation are notably worse than Q2009, and neither Q2009 nor MS-Money2009 allow you to flag a tax-related transaction as being off-year (such as a charitable donation in January, or a rent check prepared at the end of December). Amazingly, MSM2009 has no print preview at all, and you cannot create a subcategory of a subcategory. MSM2009 has bugs, such as that jumping back to a report after an edit makes a top transaction appear out of order at the bottom of its sorted category, reports seem to randomly list either expenses or income first, and seem to randomly alphabatize categories either upwards or downwards. Exporting to Excel gives you all subtotals appearing in all columns, eliciting a complaint at their user forum as far back as 2004 and still not fixed. Both are flawed, but after a few weeks working the same database on both I find myself choosing the constant annoyance of MSM2009 over the constant headache of Q2009.

I used a prior version years ago and like the ease of reconciling my checkbook. I don't do well with the traditional pencil and calculator making this a great time management item. I am also able to track my Flexible Spending Account and business related expenses associated with starting a new business. If you have a complex business, you may need more to manage the business aspect of your finances.

I am still using this software and it seems to not be slowing down any, Probably could use and updated version, Give it a try...!

I've used Quicken for 15yrs+, buy every major upgrade. But this one has no new significant features, it adveritses some, but they don't stand out. I think there might be some extension of current features, but it's not changed my organization or advanced my reporting or insight in any new ways. I would not buy this particular upgrade had I known how insignificant this upgrade is for current users. I gave three stars because overall Quicken is still a GREAT product, just a useless upgrade for current users.