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Quicken 2008 Premier [OLD VERSION]

Quicken 2008 Premier [OLD VERSION]

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From: Intuit
Category: Software

List Price: $89.85
Buy New: $47.98
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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 71 reviews
Sales Rank: 649

Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Premier
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 1.4

MPN: 403615
UPC: 028287017344
EAN: 0028287017344
ASIN: B000U0CBVG

Release Date: September 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Features:
  • Includes all the features of Quicken Deluxe, plus powerful investing tools to help you plan for your financial future and grow your investments
  • Make online banking even better--bring all your online accounts together in one place
  • Connect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single password
  • Smart investment tools help you research, balance your portfolio and monitor your net worth
  • Organize your tax information and help maximize deductions

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Product Description
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 2008 helps you more efficiently optimize your investment portfolio, simplify taxes and grow your net worth. Quicken Premier 2008 has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe 2008.

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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.

Powerful investment tools help you define goals, set targets and optimize your investment portfolio.

Keep track of your complete financial portfolio with Quicken Premier's Net Worth Report.

The latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

View all your finances in one place.

Plan your future. Manage your investments. Watch your net worth grow.
Quicken Premier has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe--plus investment planning tools to help better manage your portfolio and help maximize your investments.

Get the most out of your investments
Powerful investment tools help you define goals, set targets and optimize your investment portfolio. Get alerts on your favorite stocks and funds to help you make informed investment decisions.

Instantly view your net worth
Keep track of your complete financial portfolio with Quicken Premier's Net Worth Report. Gain insight into your investments with performance charts and reports.

Access the latest asset allocation assistance
Our exclusive investing tools have been updated with the latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

Optimize your portfolio with tax efficient investments
Quicken's Tax Reports make it easy to evaluate and ensure your investments are as tax efficient as possible, helping you get the maximum tax benefits on April 15th.

View all your finances in one place
Like Quicken Deluxe, you can bring your online accounts--including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts--together all in one place. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple web sites and remembering multiple passwords. With Quicken, you see it all in one place and you need just ONE password.(1) As with Quicken Deluxe, you can even include 529 contributions as part of your overall net worth.

See where you're spending your money
As with Quicken Deluxe, the new "My Savings Plan" instantly shows a summary of your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Quickly understand what's left over each month for you to invest.

Pay your bills on time
Like Quicken Deluxe, a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses helps you schedule bills, set reminders and--most importantly--help avoid late fees. Easily pay bills right from within Quicken using Quicken Bill Pay or a third party bill pay service.(2)

Store important documents and statements in one place
As with Deluxe, not only can you bring your online data into Quicken Premier, you can scan in bank statements, checks and receipts to save time with tax prep. No more time wasted looking for receipts and statements--everything is stored in one central place.

Get free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
(3) If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new software, free phone support is available for Quicken Premier 2008 through December 31, 2008.

What's New in 2008

Maximize your investments

  • New! Get the latest asset allocation assistance
    Our exclusive investing tools have been updated with the latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

Make saving as easy as spending

  • New! See where you can find more to invest
    As with Quicken Deluxe, A new "My Savings Plan" instantly shows a summary of your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. You can quickly see where you have room to spend or save more. Set flexible spending targets for regular expenses like entertainment and home expenses and then check your progress as you go through the month.
  • Improved! More easily categorize your expenses
    As in Quicken Deluxe, a reorganized and redesigned menu makes it easier than ever to categorize your expenses. You can also add extra details to any expense to help jog your memory--i.e., the specific restaurant for a dining expense or the trip destination for an airline ticket.
  • Improved! Smarter navigation makes it easier access the tools you need
    Like Quicken Deluxe, easier navigation makes it faster to get around and discover the features and tools that work best for you. Tabs let you quickly switch between Quicken's main pages. And a new interactive account bar makes it clear which of your accounts you are working with at any given moment.

Track everything in one place

  • Improved! More connections to more financial institutions
    Quicken Premier 2008 connects you to over 5300 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal. It's easier than ever to truly bring your accounts together in one place.(1)
  • New! Import your PayPal account transactions into Quicken
    Whether it's payments or income--or both--Quicken can now import your transaction data directly from PayPal.
  • New! Track your 529 contributions
    Include 529 contributions as part of your overall net worth. See how you're progressing on your college savings goals.
  • New! Get reminders of scheduled bills and transactions--without opening Quicken
    If you're using Windows Vista, our new Quicken Billminder Gadget can remind you of scheduled bills and transactions directly from your desktop.

(1) Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions and fees. More than 5,322 participating financial institutions as of 6/05/07.
(2) To pay bills in Quicken requires Quicken Bill Pay (sold separately) or a third party bill pay service (fees may apply).
(3) Email, Forums and Chat technical support provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Phone technical support provided Monday - Friday, 5:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT. Additional fees may apply.



Customer Reviews:   Read 25 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Downgrade from 5-star to 1-star!   March 29, 2008
Linda Day (Texas)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

(This is a drastically revised review. My initial installation experience was good, and I rated the program 5 stars. Now I rate it at 1-star, but I can't change the rating of the review.) Here's the recap.

I dreaded the upgrade from Quicken 2005 to 2008. I waited as long as possible, then validated my data, etc., and set aside a day when I thought I could stand the frustration. Whaddaya know, the installation went pretty easily, and soon I was up and running, intact, or so I thought. I use Quicken BillPay and have for years, and I have Windows XP Pro. My online billing proceeded normally, and I was greatly relieved. I even submitted a 5-star review. The program does little more than Quicken 2005 did, but the new eye-candy was pleasant, and the upgrade was mandatory. By waiting as long as possible to install, the program was already on Version 7 (God help early adopters!)

Then I noticed that my checking account appeared as "Wachovia Securities" when the correct account was and always has been "Wells Fargo". I tried all the obvious ways to fix it, and nothing worked, so I thought I'd give the new "chat" support a try. When it became clear that the things the support person suggested wouldn't work, she simply disconnected!! That solved HER problem. And I decided not to sweat it, since the erroneous name didn't seem to cause any other problems.

But then -- I pulled up an old saved report from Q2005, and one column of data was garbage. This time I tried email support. Through an exchange of emails, they advised me to validate the file, and if that didn't work, to supervalidate it. I did all of that (very carefully, I had a backup, but by the way the normal backup you get is worthless, more on that), and it still didn't work. The email guy said I should phone in and talk to a support person.

AND THEN I noticed that the validation process had ELIMINATED ALL RECORD OF ONLINE TRANSACTIONS AND ALL OF MY ONLINE PAYEE LIST, which was substantial!! Oh woe. This is when I tried restoring a backup file I'd made the day before. But get this: WHEN QUICKEN 2008 MESSES UP, IT DOES SO IN A WAY THAT PREVENTS YOU FROM GOING BACK TO A PREVIOUSLY FUNCTIONAL VERSION. Every old file I "restored" now showed the same total absence of online transactions and onlinei payees. Now I did decide to phone in for support.

I was pleasantly surprised: Without a long wait time, I was connected to a young woman in Bangladesh or some other remote location, but she was really really sharp and actually solved the problem. This was not trivial. I had to cancel my online billing setup, validate and revalidate and revalidate the file until no "corrected errors" showed up, and then reinstate online billing. We basically took Quicken apart and put it back together again. She also corrected the account so that Wells Fargo showed up instead of Wachovia, although this was separate from the issue that had wiped out my online transactions. As far as the column of garbage in the saved Q2005 report, she said that Q2008 does that sometimes; I should just delete the report and recreate it. All these problems were solved, my online payee list was restored, and at that point, I was charged $24.95 for the call. I tried to argue that Q2008 had created the problem and corrupted my file, but decided to blow it off and just pay and be done with it. I thought my problems were over. Ha.

BECAUSE THEN, when I next "updated" my online accounts, Quicken Bill Pay downloaded the LAST TWO YEARS OF TRANSACTIONS, roughly 650, along with a few new ones interspersed. The balance in my checking accounted was now -$87,000. That's MINUS $87,000.

In the next call to phone support I found out that "That's just how it is". I would have to go through the last 2 years of transactions and manually delete the duplicates. (He did tell me to sort the account by "most recently entered" instead of by "date", so I was able to select groups and delete with only 1-2 clicks per transaction instead of the 4-5 clicks it normally takes to delete a transaction.) At the end of all this, my accounts have been somehow "unreconciled" -- all records of the last month's reconciliation have been eliminated. So I'm having to redo that too. I don't actually expect my bank account to balance at the end of all this (How do you carefully and thoughtfully delete duplicate records when you're feeling like !@#%$?) I plan to just enter a fudge factor and forget about it.

Here's some learnings: If you're converting from an old version, and you decide to validate the file before you start the conversion, keep rerunning the validation routine until it turns up no more error messages. They don't tell you this, but the sharp woman said that was important. Then you may or may not want to "super-validate" which you do by holding down the shift key while you go thru the validation procedure.

Then you can pray a lot. If your bank account name comes up wrong, try ignoring it. If your old reports look funny, delete and recreate them. Do anything you can to avoid using the Q2008 version of validation.

If you need support, go immediately for the phone support. I talked to 2 people, and both knew what they were doing. The first woman was awesome (except for not telling me the horrors that would happen the next time I ran the online update). The second person, a guy, knew I was, well, screwed, and he tried to be as nice as possible about it. I have used Quicken since 1998, and I will say that support is better than it was a few years ago (not close to the way it was Back in the Day), and they don't charge you unless they solve the problem. The chat and email support were useless.

All for now.



5 out of 5 stars Great upgrade...from 2003   May 11, 2008
GrsmRngr (Smoky Mountains, TN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I haven't had experience with Quicken 2007, so I cannot attest to the chenges between the two, however, it is a world apart from 2003. If you are looking for NEW product, not an upgrade from an existing product, this one suits greatly. However, if those who are using 2007 are true in their claims, maybe 2007 IS the way to go?? 2008 WILL have the 2008 tax information though...


5 out of 5 stars Good Upgrade   July 10, 2008
Norman K. Thurston (Utah, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I hate the idea that you have to upgrade Quicken every 3 years, but the new version has some significant improvements.


5 out of 5 stars The perfect tool!   July 20, 2008
Toni Brown (Austin, Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Quicken 2008 Premier is exactly what I needed. Because I decided to cut up all of my credit cards and use cash or a debit card, it's important that I keep track of my spending so I don't run out of money before payday. Now I can just download information from my credit union directly into Quicken and I don't have to remember to save receipts. I love it!


5 out of 5 stars quicken 2008 works   January 28, 2008
Michael L. Bishop
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

after using msn money for years. i tried quicken cause money would not down load from my bank, quicken said they would, works perfect thanks quicken



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