Quicken Deluxe 2010
Manufacturer: Intuit Inc. Part number: 409965
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- Quicken 2010 is a solid finance package, especially for novices, but offers little that's substantively new.
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CNET editors' review
Quicken Deluxe 2010 price range: $42.99 - $69.99
- Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt
- Edited by: Lindsey Turrentine
- Reviewed on: 10/15/2009
The good: The Quicken 2010 product family gets a fresh home page that makes setting up a personal home finance operation easy. Quicken now also automatically categorizes expenses.
The bad: Many second-tier tools are clunky and text-heavy; Quicken junks up the desktop with extra shortcuts.
The bottom line: Quicken 2010 is a solid finance package, especially for novices, but offers little that's substantively new.
With Quicken 2010, Intuit strives to make its flagship money management application easier to navigate and simpler to set up, thanks to spruced-up visuals and a refreshed start-up wizard. Although already a solid balance-keeper and financial assistant in previous versions, Quicken 2010 adds a few new features to visualize your monthly budget and assets.
The Quicken 2010 product family includes Quicken Starter Edition ($29.99) for tracking budgets and upcoming bills; Quicken Deluxe ($59.99), which includes tools to help you save up for a large purchase; Quicken Premier ($89.99), which helps track investments; Quicken Home and Business ($99.99); and Quicken Rental Property Management ($149.99). We evaluated Quicken Deluxe 2010.
Installation
At almost 70MB, Quicken Deluxe 2010 takes several minutes to install. Installation was painless up to the point when the software junked up our desktop with four icons: the Quicken icon, plus another three unwanted shortcuts advertising a Quicken credit card and other additional services.
Features
Quicken's core features continue doing what they've done for years: chiefly, importing your financial information to help you automatically and manually track your spending and savings. Not just a simple ledger for balancing your bank book, Quicken's additional tools also help alert you to upcoming bills and to your overall budget.
In the 2010 edition, Intuit has applied some cosmetic changes that streamline and simplify the software. One change is a sleeker setup wizard to guide you through the process of importing your financial information, adding bill reminders, and setting up budgets. This wizard is moot if you're a returning user importing years of data from past Quicken versions, but new users will have an easier time getting started with this version than in years past.
A cleaner-looking home screen greets new and returning users, summarizing your financial standing in a glance. Pared-down navigation options also make it easier to find what you need. The most active new feature in Quicken 2010 takes a stab at automatically categorizing your transactions, like assigning Safeway to the Groceries category and your doctor's visits to the Medical category, with a little help from you if there's any doubt. In implementing this feature, Quicken plays catch-up to savvier online management apps, like Mint.com--which Intuit has since snapped up and plans to integrate--and its ilk. A new infographic in Quicken also helps you avoid late fees by displaying both how much cash is left in your coffers and which upcoming bills you should brace for.
Apart from the bill reminder and the autocategorization, it's Quicken's top layer, and select tools, that see the benefit of Quicken's design changes. Scratch the surface, however, and many of the app's second-tier tools--text-heavy calculators, planners, and lists with tiny font--feel as if they haven't been updated for years. The old-school layout may not bother legacy users or those who aren't put off by blocks of texts and charts, but others who have come to expect graphic representation of their data and clean design--say, the likes of former competitor Mint.com--may be inclined to shut the window and move on rather than wade through text.
As with past versions, Quicken Deluxe 2010 pulls in financial data from your banks and savings accounts. There are tools to create graphs and reports to itemize spending and banking, and to plot transactions on a calendar. There's also a debt reduction planner and a tax-planning wizard. Quicken could use a few more online social Net links, too, such as an option to sync reminders to an online calendar.
Intuit isn't blind to consumers' changing expectations in management software, online or offline. Quicken 2010's refurbished look does help, and conservatives who feel more comfortable keeping monetary details stored locally on their PCs rather than encrypted in the cloud lose nothing by downloading a free trial. For strictly online users with only personal finances (not investments, property, or small businesses), Intuit offers a free, online version that's similar to Mint.com. Quicken Online has budgeting, tracking, and reminders, encryption, an iPhone component, and the added capability to prep the data for tax time, assuming you also use one of Intuit's TurboTax products.
If you've used Quicken before, you can import data from previous years. The same goes for anyone switching over from Microsoft Money. With Microsoft Money killed off (additional details), Quicken is the best desktop alternative.
Service and support
Quicken support is unchanged from previous years. E-mail support is free, and Intuit promises to respond within a day. Chat help is also free and is available 24-7. Phone assistance is $24.95 per call. However, some support calls are free, such as if you're having problems installing the program or converting data from earlier Quicken versions.
Overall
Quicken Deluxe 2010 remains a useful, if not exciting, management app equipped with rich balancing and budgeting tools. As for the future of Quicken, Intuit's recent acquisition of flashy online finance manager Mint.com could spell the merging of Mint's online budgeting and reminder features. Mint's exciting visual style could also draw younger users to future versions of Quicken, assuming Intuit goes that route, making future versions of the classic, but dated, money manager truly fresh.
User reviews
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Useful & Consistent, & Still The Best
Pros: Continuity for previous users (like me); setup is eased for 1st time users; categorization of expenses is improved; interface is a bit cleaner; price is still a good value for what you get.
Cons: Review wasn't kidding about large blocks of small text in some areas; I detest all the ad-based tie-ins; help system still a mixed bag - some excellent, some not so much.
Summary: I've been using Quicken for over a decade. I skipped the last version, which means with Feature Creep (the constant adding of new features to justify a new version) ...
Summary: I've been using Quicken for over a decade. I skipped the last version, which means with Feature Creep (the constant adding of new features to justify a new version) I was nervous about upgrading; too much change too fast can make a necessary task even more unpleasant. I needn't have worried.
The new Quicken cleans up the interface in a few areas, which makes it easier to work with AND easier on these tired eyes. If you are a previous user, importing your data is painless - even if you do as I did & do a clean install on a new system & import your data file, rather than upgrading over the old version.
I'm not sure what the other review here was referring to, as Quicken will work with the majority of financial institutions. I have changed banks several times over the years & Quicken has worked with every one of them. It's true that some banks allow Quicken to directly integrate & pull data automatically, while others require you to export the data so you can import the file into Quicken - but that's not up to Intuit, that is up to the institutions themselves.
Goal setting for savings and/or large purchases is a breeze, & the reporting features are excellent. Overall, it is fast & easy to see all your day-to-day financial activities in one, easy-to-understand place.
The help system is still somewhat hit & miss. It is actually stronger in the area of finances than it is when you need technical help with the software, which doesn't bother me (a 19 year IT veteran), but might annoy those not as computer savvy.
Speaking of annoying: Hey Intuit! I bought your product. Stop inundating me with ads, tie-ins, promos & icons all over the place. Your target audience consists of those who want to do better managing their finances; stop trying to take advantage of them.
Overall, Quicken is still a fine product that does what it's supposed to do, & does it very well. I consider it an essential application that keeps improving, even after all these years.7 out of 8 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Beware,banks that synch with online version don't work
by kevinpdee on October 17, 2009
Pros: I don't see anything helpful, given my inability to do downloads for virtually all important accounts
Cons: My bank and retirement plans won't communicate with the program, even though they worked with MS Money and the free online Quicken
Summary: I was a MS Money user for years. Just bought Quicken Premiere 2010 after tinkering with the free online Quicken. I?m really upset that most of my financial institutions ...
Summary: I was a MS Money user for years. Just bought Quicken Premiere 2010 after tinkering with the free online Quicken. I?m really upset that most of my financial institutions don?t have available synching/transaction downloading, including my two retirement plans: TIAA-CREF and New York State Deferred Compensation Plan; and my Capital One checking and savings accounts. The setup screens declare that it?s ?Unavailable.?
Capital One worked with MS Money and the online Quicken. The bank's website says that it works with Quicken, but they must mean the free service or older versions.
You should check on your institutions before you buy Quicken 2010.3 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Wish File Format was More Open-Source
by benjimen on December 4, 2009
Pros: Easy to use on whatever level you choose.
Cons: Over the years, Intuit has taken away the capability of your financial service to provide transaction info via QIF files for free. Now, if they want to offer Quicken format files they have to license the capability from Intuit.
Summary: Over the years, Intuit has taken away the capability of your financial service to provide transaction info via QIF files for free. Now, if they want to offer Quicken format ...
Summary: Over the years, Intuit has taken away the capability of your financial service to provide transaction info via QIF files for free. Now, if they want to offer Quicken format files they have to license the capability from Intuit. Many still sync and some sync with billpay -- but now for either a fee or stipulation, like requiring your paycheck be direct-deposited with them (like B of A). Some of the smaller guys just dropped Quicken support altogether, like my employers 401k provider --- it's a bummer entering all those different share purchases manually now :(
Now that MS Money is out of the way, there is no real competition for Quicken -- and no reason whatsoever to return to the days of financial institutions freely offering your transaction data in the Quicken format. -
Terrible so far
by larrymsn on November 7, 2009
Pros: none so far as i have not been able to get it to work
Cons: does not load on my sytem properly upgarde from 2007 imported data converted it to 2010 version the refuses to load the data file after that.will not back up to a rewritable disk at all
Summary: this is by far the worst version quicken has come out with since i have been using it since the nineties
Summary: this is by far the worst version quicken has come out with since i have been using it since the nineties
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I think it is terrible
by marday on November 1, 2009
Pros: Regretfully, nothing.
Cons: It crashed every time I tried to update my stocks.
Summary: The "online" icon gave me the tax summary. I could not set up a new online account. The system crashed every time I tried to update my stocks, it crashed ...
Summary: The "online" icon gave me the tax summary. I could not set up a new online account. The system crashed every time I tried to update my stocks, it crashed everytime I tried to update my bank transactions. When I asked for help, by e-mail of course, they did try to help. I was given a lot of different things to try, none of which worked for me, and were very time consuming. I finally deleted the whole thing, which is no easy task by itself getting everything off the computer, and reinstalled my 2007 edition of Quicken home and business. I trade stocks for a living and depend on Q to keep everything in order, tax wise. The only reason I updated is because my 07 edition wont give me tax projections past 2007. I can live with that. I honestly did not find one thing I liked better in Quicken 2010 Deluxe than what I have in my 07 edition. I feel very fortunate that my backup copies got my 2007 Quicken back to where I had it. I am in awe when I buy a new Lexus and I think, how can they keep making this thing better, but they continue to amaze me and improve the car. I wish I could say the same for Intuit and Quicken. I cannot.
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Constsnt erros after installing 2010 Premier windows
by epilab1 on October 28, 2009
Pros: Cant have one if it does not work
Cons: Had to delete the 2010 version and reinstall the 2009 version and install back up file
Summary: Tried the self help in Quicken but nothing worked. tried to e-mail Quicken but information would not go through. Seems like they are either over whelmed with customers ot not ...
Summary: Tried the self help in Quicken but nothing worked. tried to e-mail Quicken but information would not go through. Seems like they are either over whelmed with customers ot not interested in solving the issue.
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Trashed my old info. Haven't recovered yet.
by RWWILLI on October 27, 2009
Pros: Nothing, so far.
Cons: First step of "Install" deletes 2009 version.Install comes up with half of accounts empty. FAQ says restart old Quicken version. YOU DELETED IT!
sO FAR HALF A STAR IS HIGH.Summary: I WISH I HAD NOT DONE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, UNTIL THEY GET IT WORKING.
Summary: I WISH I HAD NOT DONE FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, UNTIL THEY GET IT WORKING.
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Recipe for Financial Disaster if Actually Used!
by Siren11 on October 20, 2009
Pros: I was able to remove it without to much trouble!
Cons: I can't get this program to stop downloading multiple copies of every transaction from my financial institutions. I 2nd the idea that this product needs some competition so that it improves to a useful level at some point.
Summary: Worse excuse for a financial program & to think, they actually charge you for it! This would be awful if it were free! I truly regret wasting one single penny ...
Summary: Worse excuse for a financial program & to think, they actually charge you for it! This would be awful if it were free! I truly regret wasting one single penny on this program! With no real competition out there I reverted back to using a pencil & paper which I then scan into my computer as PDF files to keep track of them. Why did Microsoft Money abandon this software field? Quicken was clearly no competition to them!
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Have used this product for over ten years,
by bear32 on October 20, 2009
Pros: Its not the best but it does do its job that its put out to be, there is faults in any system, an this one does it better than most.
Cons: Some times it does things that can't be explained an a call to the company helps, as they are very good at this, they help you alot.
Summary: It used to show the individual stocks but now it lumps them all together, which I don't like but have no say in, but over all its not a ...
Summary: It used to show the individual stocks but now it lumps them all together, which I don't like but have no say in, but over all its not a bad thing. Some times in making a Quicken, its not good to mess with what has been an some improvements don't work out as they had expected them to.
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What should the rest of the world do ?
by kerrydevans on October 19, 2009
Pros: Still using my 2004 version of Quicken which is great.
Cons: Not available to me.
Summary: I would happily upgrade since it does go wrong occasionally, but Intuit abandoned the UK some years ago - and now with MS Money going too where can I go
Summary: I would happily upgrade since it does go wrong occasionally, but Intuit abandoned the UK some years ago - and now with MS Money going too where can I go
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Intuit Inc.
- Part number: 409965
- Description: The Quicken Deluxe 2010 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings. Quicken Deluxe shows you what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over to spend or save. Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year. Quicken Deluxe pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.
General
- Category Home / entertainment / lifestyle applications
- Subcategory Home / life - personal finance / tax preparation
- Language(s) English
- License pricing Standard
- Localization English
Software
- License Type Complete package
- License Qty 1 user
- License Pricing Standard
- Platform Windows
- Min Supported Color Depth 16-bit (64K colors)
- Distribution Media CD-ROM
- Package Type Retail
System Requirements
- OS Required Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Min Processor Type 400 MHz (Microsoft Windows XP), 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista) - 400 MHz, 1 GHz
- Peripheral / Interface Devices 2x CD-ROM, XGA monitor
- System Requirements Details Microsoft Windows XP - RAM 512 MB - HD 100 MB, Microsoft Windows Vista - RAM 1 GB - HD 100 MB
Product series
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Manufacturer: Intuit Inc.
Specs: 1 user, Complete package, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, 400 MHz (Microsoft Windows XP), 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista) 400 MHz, 1 GHz, 2x CD-ROM, XGA monitor, 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista), 400 MHz, Windows
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Manufacturer: Intuit Inc.
Specs: 1 user, Complete package, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, 400 MHz (Microsoft Windows XP), 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista) 400 MHz, 1 GHz, 2x CD-ROM, XGA monitor, 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista), 400 MHz, Windows
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Quicken Home and Business 2010
Manufacturer: Intuit Inc.
Specs: 1 user, Complete package, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, 400 MHz (Microsoft Windows XP), 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista) 400 MHz, 1 GHz, 2x CD-ROM, XGA monitor, 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista), 400 MHz, Windows
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Manufacturer: Intuit Inc.
Specs: 1 user, Complete package, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, 400 MHz (Microsoft Windows XP), 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista) 400 MHz, 1 GHz, 2x CD-ROM, XGA monitor, 1 GHz (Microsoft Windows Vista), 400 MHz, Windows
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