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Quicken Starter Edition 2009

	Our Price: $29.99 List Price: $29.95 Sales Rank: #71 (lower is better) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Intuit Avg. Customer Rating:
Brand: Intuit EAN: 0028287019331 Format: CD-ROM Manufacturer: Intuit Model: 406510 Release Date: 2008-09-09 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Quicken Starter Edition 2009 Features See where you’re spending your money by category or payee. Schedule payments and pay bills directly from Quicken (online services require internet access and are subject to change) A single password brings your online banking and credit card accounts together in one place. Never miss a bill— see bills already paid and still pending in the improved Bills screen
Quicken Starter Edition 2009 Description Quicken 2009 Starter Edition Win CD Retail Small Package MIR.
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Quicken Starter Edition 2009 customer reviews: Quicken Non-Starter I bought the Quicken Starter Edition because I thought it was replacing the least expensive Basic Edition this year. But Intuit failed to indicate that it was disabling the ability to accept data from earlier years. For that you have to upgrade to the more expensive Deluxe Edition. So the Starter Edition is absolutely useless for a long-time Quicken user. The only thing good I can say about this is that Intuit returned my money and I did not even have to return the CD. That deserves the one star I am giving this product. Rip-Off The 2009 Quicken Basic will only import files from Quicken 2008 (in the fine print). This is apparently not a technology problem, because if you spend $30 extra for the deluxe version, you can import files from Quicken 2007 and earlier. This policy seems to be derived from the same stealthy-price-increase thinking that was used on the new Turbotax edition wherein initially it had a limitation of doing only a SINGLE tax return. Intuit finally reversed themselves on that one, but check out the opinions of long-term Intuit customers on the Amazon tax-software Turbtax forum(over 225 negative comments)! Completely useless finance software! This product is beyond useless for me. Despite Amazon's claims in the product description that Quicken Starter Edition 2009 tracks 401k accounts and loans, IT DOES NOT. Quicken Starter Edition 2009 can ONLY track checking/savings/credit card/cash accounts. It cannot track loans of any kind (personal, home, vehicle) or any type of retirement account. I thought about entering my home loan as a credit card account and manually adjusting it every month, but I'd rather have a software program that works properly. Apparently Quicken Deluxe can handle loan and retirement accounts, and I would have ordered it from the start if I had realized Amazon had a completely inaccurate description for the Starter edition. However, I think now I'm going back to my tried and true Microsoft Money just because of this headache (I also have a problem with Quicken "talking" with my credit union, and never had that issue with MS Money). Features Removed, Price Remains the Same I had the 2007 version and it was nothing but a buggy nightmare. I hesitated getting 2008, but with the new year and many problems, I decided to give in and get 2009. What a mistake! First, you get a bunch of warnings about only being able to import from 2008. That's not necessarily true. I decided to forge ahead and see what I could accomplish because once I opened the package I didn't think it was returnable. It worked fine importing and converting my file from version 2007 (just make a copy of your data file first, just in case). BUT, and this is a HUGE but, the newly monikered "starter" version replaces the "basic" version, most likely to reorganize the Quicken line-up and allow you to THINK Starter is the same as Basic being the same price. It is sooooo not! It imported my data file, but would not show my 401k as my previous basic version did. As it turns out, they are not including any ability to track investments, not even retirement plans. What's worse is since it was the same old data file, it would still update the 401k account, which was strange--you could see the progress during the update cycle--but you can never SEE the account! There wasn't even a way to change the account to a savings instead, because it will not show Fidelity Investments in the list of institutions. I gues they thought of that work around and found a way to keep people from doing it. That's when I sent it back. I also reinstalled 2007. AND had to use that old data file copy since you cannot convert backward. I DID NOT allow it to update to all the "fixes" that ruined it before. Sadly, it's still got a bug in that it keeps popping up the update nag screen even though it has a checkbox checked to never remind me again. I thought maybe I should go to MS Money, but a quick overview of the program shows they did the same thing with investment and retirement accounts. That's okay, I was using Quicken 99 when I finally updated to 2007. I'm sure I'll be functional for a while, unless Quicken gets really nasty-greedy and tries to hamstring older versions and force upgrades. Time will tell. I may just have to go back to the old check register and visit the online banking sites for each of my banks. Those are free... for now... BEWARE - Crippleware This product will not import your previous Quicken files requiring you to buy an upgrade after it is installed. This is very misleading since the product description says it does. Amazon should pull this ripoff!
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