Intuit Quicken 2008 Premier

Get the tools you need for smarter, simpler investment planning and portfolio management. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, Quicken Premier helps you more efficiently optimize your investment portfolio, simplify taxes and grow your net worth.

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• Reviewed by: lross805

  01-20-08

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: I have used Quicken for over ten years and recently upgraded from Quicken (Deluxe) 2005 to 2008 version. Upgrade was smooth and the new interface is visually appealing. My old version's online banking and bill pay information seems to have accurately migrated to the new software.

  Weaknesses:Whether it is because of incompetence or guile, the category system seems to have been "gamed" to force you to use Quicken's pre-defined business categories. My suspicion is that they are trying to force you into buying "Home and Business" version of their software. But, in any case, if you own a Schedule C business, however simple it might be, be prepared to give up your own categories and adopt their flat-footed version.

  Overall Evaluation: Intuit seems to be headed down the same road as Microsoft with Windows. Why nick the consumer for one or two versions of your product, when you can cleverly construct limitations in the product, the purpose of which is to force consumers into an ever-proliferating multitude of increasingly expensive products? It's enough to make me abandon Intuit products after over a decade of use. But, bottomline, although the user interface is slick, as is the online bill pay aspect of the program, in other respects Quicken keeps getting more and more complicated without necessarily increasing its usability or flexibility. That is damned disappointing, in short.

• Reviewed by: windskisong

  11-17-08

  Duration of ownership: 90 Days

  Strengths: Huge improvement over Quicken 2004

  Weaknesses:Slower, forced to upgrade

  Overall Evaluation: Quicken forces you to upgrade after a certain time, as certain functions "stop working". So I was annoyed when I purchased this, and tried to find it for the lowest possible price. AsenaShop sold it for a wonderful price.Plus, it is a huge upgrade. The stock tracking system actually works now, and understands options MUCH better than before. It does a better job of handling mortgages and other loans, and many other "business-esqe" transactions.

• Reviewed by: cashisking

  07-30-08

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: its okay was forced to upgrade with new computer not much diffrence than 2007

  Weaknesses:does not print checks or anything woth vista 64bit ..hours with tech support no help if u read the forums on quickens website this issue has w been around for a year and no fix from them

  Overall Evaluation: i will be trying microsoft money i need to print and intuit(quicken) will not solve the problem...also if it says windows vista compadible on the box ...it is not

• Reviewed by: FloridaGator1

  07-27-08

  Duration of ownership: 5 Weeks

  Strengths: fairly easy to upgrade from previous quicken versions, automated account updates

  Weaknesses:account setup not streamlined, very difficult for people used to the older version to adjust to new version

  Overall Evaluation: I purchased this to update an extremely out-dated version of Quicken for someone else, mainly for the ability to automate account updates. However, unless you're a younger person, you'll probably have a hard time adjusting to all the changes... Quicken does all the same basic stuff that Money does, it just does it in a slightly different way. There are pros and cons for each. And remember, not all financial institutions support automatic updates for Quicken (some even charge you like Wachovia does!--horrible!). So you'll still have to manually download information from the financial website in order to keep everything up-to-date in Quicken/Money (and/or avoid paying fees).UPDATE: Money no longer exists, so I just use the reason why Money doesn't exist: the online applications that banks and investment firms offer for their customers (they are generally free!). Don't bother complicating things with additional software, you don't need this...

• Reviewed by: cyclesandy

  06-18-08

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: It is very user friendly.

  Weaknesses:The first time I was able to download from one of my banks, but the next time I couldn't make it work. I think this is a bank issue and not a Quicken issue.

  Overall Evaluation: I have used many versions of Quicken so I have used some version of it for years. With other versions I have never downloaded from bbank and credit card sites, but I started doing this with 2008.After learning how to download from each site, I really like the ease and convenience of it. Some of my sites I can download from within Quicken without going on the sites at all. (some pages do not give you that capability), and it is really easy and quick to do. Once you tell Qucken what category you want for each transaction, then it remembers them the next time you download.I highly recommend this product!

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