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Quicken Home & Business 2013 [Download]
- 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 Personal Finance Software. Organizes your personal and your home-based business finances, all in one place.
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Quicken Home & Business 2013 [Download]
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Not ready for release.,
It’s shameful Intuit would release a product that should be a beta than a production release. I am a long term Quicken user from back in the DOS days and a former beta tester! Upgrading from Home and Business 2010 was a nightmare! After purchasing the download I installed it, and the program returned an error it couldn’t apply updates it had downloaded. Next up was to acquire the patch and manually install. Needless to say it broke the windows installer and and completely destroyed the Norton Ghost installation. This issue couldn’t be resolved so I have requested a refund.
The program is buggy, the budgeting interface is aweful, no customization of a color interface, and very busy and confusing. Quicken never was strong on the budgeting component, but this is the WORST I have ever seen.
The add reports to the toolbar customization, doesn’t work! Saved programs from previous versions do not work. The savings Goals graphs are not formated correctly and the dollar amount is cut off on the right of the screen. Additionaly, unless you specify a target goal amount, the current amount residing in savings goals won’t even display. The budget reports are inaccurate and more time than there worth. The default Personal Income and Personal Expense groups cannot be removed which is the source of the inaccuracy. Geesh, did anyone at Intuit have an accounting primer or have a clue how this is to work. Many of the same errors have been present in the last 3 Windows releases.
Enter the Ipad, Android mobile app. All fine and dandy but I for one could care less about putting my financial data in the cloud, on someone elses server. A mobile app is fine, if it could sync directly to the desktop. Call me old fashioned. In testing the Cloud I have found it is a hybrid version of mint and desktop quicken and quite frankly doesn’t work. The mobile version will aggregate real time account data which tells me you have surrended your passwords and given access to your accounts. It also produces and alters the register balance, deletes your historical transactions on sync which is the source of the error, making it incorrect and not accurate at all! Basically they have tried to merge Mint and Desktop together and its failed. For those that value your finances and keep accurate records, this is not the product!
I could rant on, but I wont. The bozos who are part of the product development team need to get their act together. What I am intersted in is a solid desktop financial product based on trusted accounting principles. What I am not interested in is a product geared for the GenX GenY generation. I have a feeling the end of comprehensive desktop software is near it’s end.
Unfortunately I do not recommend purchasing this product at this time. Its nothing more than a public beta release. The cloud sync is a security disaster waiting to happen. Buyer Beware! INTUIT NEEDS TO RELEASE A PRODUCT PATCH WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK!
UPDATE: R3 RELEASE
Little has changed in this release. Mobile Sync is still non usable.
Saved Reports shortcuts have not been fixed.
Verify file in File Operations hangs and does not complete.
Whole interface is more clunky and unstable, crashes routinely on Windows Pro 64bit. R2 did not have this problem.
Custom Expense Graph is not accurate. The sumary box displays an inaccurate total, until the view whole graph is clicked, which produces the correct result.
OVERHAUL ANNOYANCE is the inability to customize the categories used in the stock views. EG. My Money View, is of little value as a complete summation of useless data that one may or may not want to track. The lack of the ability to customize these views is an otherwise waste of screen space. I think most will agree, Personal accounting is just that, and what the developers feel what should be reported and viewed isn’t necessarily the right one.
The strong points of the program are the powerful historical data collection and reporting capabilities, the direct downloads from hundreds of financial institutions, and free flowing data entry interface. If you can live without investment data and require to the penny accuracy you should consider Quick Books. Honestly Quicken is Intuits CASH COW, but I think this cow is out of milk. Unfortunately I am actively searching and trialing several competing products as an alternate replacment, and yes I have used it for more than 20 years. This product by all practical purposes is at the end of its life in its current state couopled with a mandatory update every three years with Intuits sunset policy, and a recurrent history of NEVER fixing whats broken and releasing the same junk year after year. It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” will Intuit drive that final nail!
UPDATE RELEASE 4
Released solved nothing. Product is mess, junk, broke. DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!
UPDATE R6…
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|SAVE YOUR MONEY AND WAIT!!!,
I purchase a lot of items from Amazon but have never taken the time to write a review. Almost all items that I order from Amazon work well and I take it for granted that this is the way things should be. It takes a real problematic product like Quicken 2013 to motivate me to take valuable time out of my day to write a review.
I have been using Quicken, TurboTax and Expensable since 1998 and have–UNTIL LAST WEEK–been very pleased and favorably impressed with their products. UNTIL LAST WEEK I have heartily recommended the Intuit product line to friends and business associates.
LAST WEEK MY VIEW TOOK A SHARP, NEGATIVE TURN FOR THE WORSE.
This 2013 product is simply not ready for prime time. It is buggy in my experience and refused to load one out of three accounts and one bank for web sharing. Various print functions on my menu system do not work. During the last week there have been no less than two different software updated released to try to fix the issues (remember this product is all of a couple weeks old). Even when it works, it does not web synch any accounts that are not essentially current assets/liabilities used for personal purposes–weak!
What we have here–in my experience–does not even qualify as reasonable Beta version software!
What management oversights at Intuit would have allowed them to release such junk is just beyond me. Are there no quality control folks testing this product? Is the senior management so out-of-touch with the developers that they could not have foreseen that this product was not ready for prime time?
Was it not foreseeable that software of this ilk would likely wind up in the hands or “early-adopter” customers of long standing with Intuit software? Releasing this software while it was in this state of ill-preparedness is the classic “wrong way Corrigan” of marketing. It disappoints and offends long-standing loyal customers and diminishes brand value and brand loyalty.
There are a number of nice responses from Intuit on this board regarding their trying to fix the many problems quickly and efficiently. This is, I am sure, well intentioned. It does not address the salient point here, however: THIS PRODUCT SHOULD NEVER HAVE SHIPPED IN THIS CONDITION.
TO NOTE ONE FINAL INSULT HERE: Intuit has typically tried to prevent migration back to an earlier version of their software by converting your existing databases into a newer format after you have upgraded to a later version of their software. While this is annoying, it is good, sound marketing from their standpoint. That is–good and sound marketing until you ship a buggy mess like this software. ONCE YOU HAVE INSTALLED THIS PROBLEMATIC SOFTWARE IT IS DIFFICULT TO REVERT TO THE PRIOR VERSION.
Save your money and wait on this product. I am sure that Intuit will get it right eventually–they certainly have in the past. At this juncture they have a big smudge on them from my perspective.Quicken Home & Business 2013 [Download]
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|Don’t do it!!! Wait for the bug revisions – R7 still not it.,
I admit it, I got excited for the new version and upgraded. Nearly all the marketing features hyped above are not ready for prime time. Budgeting is a big fail. I’m going to revert to an excel spreadsheet and manually transfer the values. The numbers are off and there is an odd way of handling categories and future transactions.
Mobile sync crashes around 50% of the time and takes roughly 5 minutes to complete, while the software is locked and unusable. I hit sync and walk away. Using the iOS interface took some getting used to, and I may use it “on the fly” but it’s not as nimble as the Pocket Quicken app in the days of Palm (yes, I’m that old and have been using Quicken that long!)
I could go on, but the other reviews hit the high points. I came from 2011 and wish that I could go back, but I’ve put too much new info in the data file, so I’m stuck.
If I could do it all over again, I’d wait to upgrade until users report all the kinks are worked out (if ever). Just head over to the forums and see what people are posting. I wish I did before I purchased. As of today (10/8/12) I have taken a step backward from usage. Thank god for Excel to fill in the holes while other people that purchased this too early “beta test” for Intuit.
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EDIT 11/15/12: I just downloaded the seventh (R7) update and it completely corrupted my data. Mind you, I had to add a “balancer” transaction to a few of my accounts with the upgrade to 2013. Amounts were off, but I couldn’t figure out where or why.
With R7, I had to restore from a backup (thank God I backup). If I could downgrade this review to zero stars I would. I no longer attempt to use the budgeting feature, we use excel and manually patch the data back into Quicken. I have mobile completely disabled (it added corrupt data). I bought a book to understand some of the “new features,” if only to find a workaround.
If I could go back to my previous version or if there was a reasonable competitor I would abandon this product immediately.
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|Oct 10, 2012 1:47:16 PM PDT
Thank you again for providing feedback about your mobile app experience here-it has been extremely helpful for us in identifying and fixing issues with the slowness of mobile sync that some users are seeing. Again, we apologize for the issues you experienced–we know this has caused problems in using Quicken 2013 itself, but we are happy to announce that we’ve released a product and server update that should resolve the majority of issues some users are experiencing. To download this update, you can perform a One Step Update and then download the patch release, or download the “mondo” patch here: http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/go
We still have a small number of unique issues that we are tracking down, and we will provide more information as soon as fixes for these are validated–for details on these issues, and updated information on how to fix your issues, visit this updated FAQ http://quicken.intuit.com/support/help/go
If you find that the updates have changed or improved your experience, please help us and other users by sharing your feedback here-the more we hear from you, the better we can focus on updates that will give you a best-in-class experience.
Thanks,
Kathryn