Quicken Home & Business 2011 Reviews
Quicken Home & Business 2011
- Quicken Home & Business 2011 pairs the personal finance features of Quicken Premier with tools for the home business
- Easily organizes your personal and home-based business finances, all in one place
- Shows you where your money is going: automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses
- Lets you view your profit and loss at a glance, so you always know how your home-based business is doing
- Helps you choose the right investments to reach your goals, and identifies ways to minimize taxes on your investments
Organizes your personal and home based business finances in one place. Identifies tax-deductible home business expenses. Shows your profit and loss at a glance. Creates customized invoices and estimates. Creates Schedule C reports to save you time on taxes.
Quicken Home & Business 2011 gives you the personal finance features found in Quicken Premier plus tools that make it easy to see how your home business is doing.
Easily Organizes Your Personal and Business Finances
Manages Both Your Personal and Business Finances Together in One Place
Organizes your financial information by bringing your personal and home-based business accounts together in one place–including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites: see your complete financial picture with just one password. Access over 12,000 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions–including PayPal.
See Where Your Money’s Going
Quicken Home & Business automatically categorizes your personal and home business expenses. Then, Quicken shows you where you’re spending your money, including both business and personal expenses. Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal and business finances are for the week, month or year.
Always Know How Your Home-Based Business Is Doing
View your business profit and loss at a glance: Quicken Home & Business gives you an overall snapshot of what’s coming in for the month, what’s going out, and what’s left in your accounts.
Helps Maximize Deductions and Simplify Your Taxes
Captures all your deductions, including mileage and expenses for specific jobs, or even household expenses that you can partially write off. The business tax deduction summary lets you instantly see your tax deduction status throughout the year to help avoid any April 15th surprises. At tax time, save time by creating Schedule C reports for your accountant. You can also easily export your data directly to TurboTax to prepare your taxes quickly and accurately.
Simplifies Estimating and Invoicing
Easily create, print, and save professional-looking estimates and invoices for your clients and customers.
Provides Comprehensive Investing and Planning Tools
Easily track, analyze, and optimize your investment portfolio. You can see changes in assets, liabilities, and net worth with one click: we show how your investments are performing across all your accounts.
Helps You Make Better Buy/Sell Decisions
We identify your top-performing investments and compare your portfolio to the market, so you can make smart decisions on buying or selling. For example, use Morningstar Ratings to compare mutual funds and see which ones best fit your investment management goals.
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.
Create–and Stay–on Budget
We make it easy to get on–and stay on–a budget. Quicken automatically sets up budget goals based on your historical spending. You can easily customize your plan, and Quicken then tracks your progress.
Save for the Things Most Important to You
Quicken Deluxe can also help you create customized plans to reduce/eliminate debt–and to save for a house, college, retirement or large purchase.
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 so you can avoid those pesky late fees!
Easily Uncover Any Unusual Account Activity
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.
Simplify Taxes With TurboTax
Quicken pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you’re not 100% satisfied, return your Quicken 2011 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).
Get Tips From Other Quicken Users
With Quicken 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.
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.
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. With our easy-to-use Data Converter tool, you’ll be up-and-running with Quicken in practically no time.
What’s New in Quicken 2011
Improved–See Exactly Where Your Money’s Going With Auto Categorization!
Automatically categorizes more of your expenses with greater accuracy so you don’t have to manually enter or edit them.
New–Stay on Top of Your Day to Day Finances
Get a better picture of what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what’s left over to spend or save with our completely redesigned cash flow graph. See how much money you have left after upcoming bills and income.
Improved–Find the Tools You Need, Faster
The most commonly used features have moved front and center, making them easy to find.
Improved–Quicken Updates Faster Than Ever
When it comes to your money, time is precious: Quicken updates your transactions using a speedier account download process.
Improved–Customize Your Register to Fit Your Needs
The new Quicken layout lets you see your information exactly how you’d like: easily resize, sort and hide columns.
New–Stock Quotes Automatically Update
Stock quotes updated every 15 minutes so you always know your portfolio’s value.
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Minor Upgrade from Quicken 2010,
I was not a beta tester and was not “encouraged” to write a glowing review by Intuit. This review only speaks to the question of whether this is a worthwhile upgrade from the 2010 version. The 2011 version contains very few new features when compared to the 2010 version. Whether you find these new features worth the upgrade price is debatable. The quicken site is a bit misleading in their “new features” list since many of the items they mention were already in the 2010 version. As with past Quicken upgrades, they largely give you MORE of a existing feature, and not much in the way of new features. So, for example, MORE banks are supported for direct connect. MORE transactions can be automatically categorized since auto-categorization already existed. So in these cases, if your banks are already supported and you don’t use auto-categorization, then these enhancements are irrelevant. So for those thinking of upgrading from 2010, here’s the list of only NEW features in the 2011 version:
- All Transactions register: This could be handy if you use many accounts and want to enter, maintain and view your transactions in one place. However, if you download transactions from your banking and investment institutions, the download window does not show up when you are in this mode, so you will be forced to continue using the individual account registers anyway.
- Register customization: You can decide which columns appear in each individual register. Transaction Notes can now be shown/edited as a column instead of treating them like an attachment.
- Attachment Encryption: I’m fairly certain this wasn’t in the prior version. I guess you can now password protect attachments.
- The usual “Where’s Waldo” changes to the program: They’ve moved menu items and eliminated speed button lists in registers. I imagine they did this to make the interface “look” simpler/cleaner, but now you have to rummage through the menus to find them. So, for example, the “Live Community” speed button was eliminated; It is now found as a “Help” menu item. Also, each account’s “Overview” speed button has been eliminated; You now find that in the “Account Actions” menu. Since it is likely that the eliminated speed buttons were rarely needed by most users, the changes will be well received.
That’s it! Is it worth the upgrade? You decide.
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|Very Disappointed,
This purchase was a huge disappointment. The software is new and there were only nine reviews, but they were all extremely positive, so I felt confident taking the plunge. I was so excited in fact, that I paid a premium to download rather than wait for UPS. In retrospect, I should have paid more attention to the eerie similarity between the reviews, and in fact they were all from beta testers (shills?) perhaps working off the same talking points. The new version was supposed to run faster and work with twice the number of financial institutions. But this is not what I experienced. I was fairly content with Home and Business 2008. The only reason I downloaded 2011 is because I want to access certain accounts that 2008 cannot, such as my 401K with ADP, my kids 529′s with New York State, and a savings/loan account with Sallie Mae. Turns out none of these accounts are accessible with 2011! It was a complete waste and it actually runs slower than 2008. Don’t be snookered like me, save your money.
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|Best available or bad joke?,
I have been using Quicken 2008 Deluxe for the past 3 years.
The process of sunsetting older versions is annoying, but ultimately necessary I believe. This allows the product staff to focus on making new versions better vs. endless patching of legacy products. I think staying current with this type of application is particularly important since it holds so much of your personal financial data. You really do want the latest so that encryption standards and security settings are at their maximum. Especially if you use the one step update with Quicken and the password vault.
So 3 years is about right probably for forcing the upgrade. Although, there are many, many bugs in Quicken 2008 Deluxe, which have never been patched, even though it’s still technically “supported.” Most of these I’ve found have to do with the one step update process.
The upgrade was one of the least painful upgrades I’ve ever had to do. Make sure you have the current backup file where you can find it. The disc walks you through uninstalling the old version, converting your old data to the new version standard, and ultimately installing the 2011 version. One way overdue update is consolidating the save/backup file into a single file, vs. 3 with 2008!
The update did take awhile, it immediately downloaded patches for the newer version, which seemed to take longer than I would’ve thought. It also converted all the old transactions/downloads from the old data, which took awhile as well. I’ve been using Quicken since 2001, so I had plenty of data for it to convert.
But overall, no weird error messages or restarting, it just worked. One major gripe with 2008 was how bug-ridden the one step update process was. I managed to finally get it to work in terms of doing my IRA accounts, but always had to download transactions manually for other accounts. The 2008 software actually crashed my Windows 7 PC anytime I tried to add my Scottrade brokerage account, even after starting over with a fresh install of Quicken. Ridiculous!
So the one step update stuff has been completely revamped. I was able to add accounts like an obscure online money market account I had, as well as my checking accounts, and my Scottrade account, IRA accounts, all without crashing my machine. I would say the software overall is prettier and has a more user-friendly UI.
The software has apparently tried to model some aspects of Mint.com since Intuit bought them out. The home screen has a nice pie graph of spending over the last 30 days so you can see at a glance what categories your spending goes toward. But if you’ve used Quicken before, this is very much the same software, and you will immediately know the basics of how to do everything. They didn’t hide any menus/buttons, etc.
While the software is good minus the online component, I can’t in good conscience give it a good or mediocre rating for the following reasons:
1. Support is non-existent. Do not bother calling because you will be routed to India where a non native English speaker will read off a laundry list script of what to do for general problems which will likely not correlate at all with the issue you may be having. You will waste your time calling these guys, and end up extremely frustrated since they will have no clue what you are talking about or why you called. This software is really better for somewhat tech oriented people who can search forums, etc. for the answers they need.
2. While impressed with the updates I’ve seen on 2011, Intuit has created an environment where bug fixes are miraculous and rare. They do not support their products in any meaningful way in terms of bug fixes. Applications from a software giant such as Intuit should be patched before the average user even recognizes a problem. As I pointed out previously, I’ve been waiting for 3 years for the “one step update” bugs to be patched. So while they say they support each product for 3 years, that really is a fabrication. Older versions are left high and dry once the subsequent version is released. This is bad customer care/support.
In other words, you should really know what you’re getting into with this app. Most people would assume they could just call them up and have small problems fixed quickly and efficiently. From personal experience, when problems do arise, it can be maddening.
Unfortunately, there just isn’t anything better that has the widespread use that Quicken enjoys which leads to enhanced compatibility with online services due to its sheer popularity. When you consider how long Quicken has been in the marketplace, this should be a “mature” product, much like Windows 7 or OS X, as a comparison. The main reason for this software to exist is the online integration with accounts. Sadly, the online stuff STILL doesn’t work…
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|All the basics for starting a business!,
Thank you Mimi! This is a fantastic book for anyone who has considered starting their own food business but are not sure where to start. The book deals mostly with cooking/baking but the concepts can easily be applied to any production business. Even if your local health department does not allow you to make your goods at home Mimi identifies other options that will allow you to start your business. Everything from making a budget, figuring out the cost of your products, shelf-life, how to name your company/products, and even free recipes are included! Another fantasic feature is the bonus DVD that includes downloadable forms such as a recipe cost calculator, press release template, expense ledgers and much more. Even if you have never considered becoming an entrepreneur this book is so well written and thorough that it might inspire you enough to give it a shot! Again, thanks for writing this food business bible!
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|Best Ever,
My friend heard great things about this book from a co-worker and gave me a copy for my birthday. I love to cook and bake but I’m always giving away everything. I didn’t realize I could sell these goodies and make real money. If you follow the author’s steps it is easy to set up a business. I highly recommend this book.
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|Excellent recipes and tips for business start-up,
This book starts from the very beginning. You get tips about different kitchen set-ups and beginning equipment necessities as well as advancing to finding a special product niche and moving up to an actual baking shop. Very good investment for the money. The worksheets also were helpful.
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|CONSIDER A HOME-BASED BUSINESS,
Dreamaster Productions has released one of the most helpful and powerful videos in helping you develop a home-based business. Seven entrepreneurs share with you the “secrets” of their success in developing their own businesses right from their homes.
Unlike other “how-to” videos this one is highly detailed in giving you the needed information to start up your business. The persons interviewed give you concrete no nonsense information about how to start your business from the ground up. They share with you their weaknesses, failures and great successes to let you know what getting into this area entails.
Meet Larry Brockham, who was passed over for promotion in his bank job and decided to quit. With little capital, he started his own home business as a marketing consultant for doctors. Ann Morris, who has the “handicap” of blindness started her own mail order business that sells products to the blind. Richard Bangs loves adventures and developed his idea into a travel adventure agency. These are just some of the people who found their passion, developed their niche and went about the process of making their vision become a reality.
I would advise anyone who is thinking of or has started a home-based business to purchase and view this video. It will clarify for you if you have what it takes to become a home based operation. In addition you will receive a wealth of information from people who have been through the process and are willing to share their experience with you.
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