Quicken
Intuit has a personal accounting product called Quicken. It comes in various variety depending upon your needs.
Quicken Starter Edition 2008
- Money management - this feature allows access any time to see where personal finances are for the year or month, showing what is coming in, what is going out and what is left over for the month.
- All finances in one place - ability to bring checking, savings and credit cards together all in the same location. This stops all the tediousness of going to multiple websites and having to remember multiple passwords, instead only one password is needed to open Quicken. Over 5300 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions are connected to Quicken even PayPal.
- Pay bills on time - there is a calendar view showing you each month, where pay checks, expenses and bills are shown, allowing the scheduling of bill payment and reminders, thus avoiding late feeds. If you want to you can also get an addon called Quicken Bill pay to pay bills from inside Quicken.
- Easier taxes - Expenses can be marked a tax deductive during the year, so come tax time everything is ready. These can then be exported directly to TurboTax so the information does not have to be re-entered.
- PayPal - both payments and income can be imported from PayPal
- Free support - if any help is required with installing or upgrading there is free support available until the end of 2008.
- Money back guaranteed - 100% satisfaction guaranteed, this means if the software is returned with receipt within 60 days of purchasing a refund will be made.
- High security - transactions are protected with multiple layers of security, including advanced encryption and authentication technologies, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), RSA encryption and digital certificates.
- Low system requirements - Minimum computer specification is Windows 2000/XP, 128MB ram, 100MB free disk space, 1024x768 monitor, CD Internet connection.
Click on the following link to buy or get more details on Quicken Starter Edition.
Quicken Deluxe Edition 2008
- Quicken Starter Edition - all feature from this are included
- My savings plan - instantly show a summary of actual spending and compare to what was planned to be spent this month. This allows quick viewing of where there is room to spend or save. Flexible targets for spending can be set and progress easily checked.
- Store important documents - ability to scan in important documents for easy referral, thus storing everything in one place
Click on the following link to buy or get more details on Quicken Delux Edition.
Quicken Premier 2008
- Quicken Deluxe Edition - all features from this edition are included
- Investment planning tools - all the definition of goals and targets to optimize the investment portfolio, set up the ability to get alerts on stocks or funds.
- Net Worth Report- instantly track your complete financial portfolio to identify you net worth, allows insight into investments using reports and charts
- Asset allocation assistance - the exclusive Quicken tools have been updated with the latest asset allocation and investment guidelines for easy comparison of the portfolio with the market, adding the ability to evaluate potential stock buys and improve the decision making process.
- Portfolio tax optimization - Quicken's Tax Reports allow easy evaluation of the tax situation to make investment as tax efficient as possible.
Click on the following link to buy or get more details on QuickenPremier Edition.
Other products
If you are a business owner or self-employed you may want to look at Quicken Home & Business 2008. If you are a Mac user then Inuit offer Quicken Mac 2007. If you have property that you are renting out then you may want to look at Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.5. If you have many belongings which you wish to keep track of in case of theft or estate planning then you may want to look at Quicken Home Inventory Manager