Editorial Review: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.
Amazon.com: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.
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Worst PC Software to Manager Your Financial Data
I've used all sorts of PC software for more than 20 years, and Quicken is without a doubt the lowest quality commercial software available. It's really quite terrifying, because if you use Quicken for a number of years, it ends up holding all of your financial data, which is vital for investing and taxes. How would you like this precious data held hostage by an unbearably slow, bloated, and buggy program?
The annual upgrades always focus on adding more features of dubious value and rearranging the user interface rather than improving the quality of the program by fixing bugs.
I've been using Quicken for about 20 years, since the DOS days! I now use it on Windows, and I'm stuck because it holds all my data. Think twice (no, 10 times!) before you entrust it with yours.
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Everything I expected!!
* The product was of the highest quality and was received sooner than could be expected. This is, without a doubt, a terrific tool for personal finance and budgeting that I would recommend to anyone; and if you're gonna buy it, I suggest buying it through Amazon.com from NothingButSoftware.com! Absolutely outstanding service and quick delivery! ...
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Quicken Rocks
I used Quicken through 2002, when I had a small business to keep track of. Then I stepped away because I needed better control of my budget. (I used BudgetMap--highly recommended if your problem is spending money you don't have.)
Then I got married and had a baby and BudgetMap got too complicated. I got the new Quicken Premier so I could use it to track our investments in addition to our checkbook.
I haven't tried using the Savings or Investment tracking features yet. I had months of un-balanced checkbook accounting to do. Quicken made it a snap by uploading 3 months of entries from my online banking account and pre-reconciling amounts so uploaded. Which means less data entry for me.
It also matched online banking entries with entries I hand-made as they occurred. Now I can reconcile my checking account in seconds instead of minutes. Yay!
Can't tell you if the Savings feature works (I trust the investment tracking one will--it's available on so many websites that it can't be hard), but if it does, that makes Quicken the most useful reasonably-priced financial management program on the market.
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It ain't what it use to be
* I have been using Quicken since it's inception. I do believe that it started out as \"CheckSum\". They were a great company and were only to glad to make you happy with their product. Then, each year, thay added more and more stuff. At first what they added was good, but now the program has become bloated. It is more than any of need or can address and each year thay add a little something and charge a very substantial fee to upgrade when it should only be a free update. They really don't give you much support, but they tell you that they will stop supporting previous versions so that you'll spring for the new version. Some of the so called improvements are very confusing and complicated like \"save a place\" in the investment portfolios. I have not yet figured out what to do with it even though I have tried everything. The latest version \"2008\" isn't worth the money. Stay with your older version. For my needs, it adds nothing but increased revenue for Intuit! ...
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Quicken premier 2008 desktop product
I did not care for this product. It is very limiting and not user friendly.
