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Quicken Starter Edition 2010 [Download]

From: Intuit
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$29.95~~
Buy New: $26.95
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

25 reviews
Sales Rank: 27

Format: Download
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: Software Download
Operating System: Windows 7

Model: 409947
UPC: 028287025158
EAN: 0028287025158
ASIN: B002PDPIE8

Release Date: September 16, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:

•	Quicken Starter Edition 2010 helps you easily organize your personal and household budget
•	Shows your bank accounts and credit cards in one place
•	Avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
•	Shows exactly where your money's going--expenses are tracked and categorized automatically
•	Get up-and-running quickly with step-by-step guidance

Simple money management and budgeting

Easily organizes your personal and household budget: shows your bank and credit cards in one place
Helps you stay on top of bills: avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
Shows exactly where your money's going: expenses are tracked and categorized automatically
Gets you up-and-running fast with step-by-step guidance
Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits

Features and Benefits

See where your money's going
We'll guide you step-by-step through getting started, and help you create a personal or household budget. We show you what's coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over each month to spend or save.

View your accounts all in one place
Organizes your finances by bringing your online accounts together--including checking, savings and credit cards. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

Never miss a bill
See what bills have already been paid, what's coming up, and if you have enough left in your accounts to cover them--all in one convenient place. Set reminders to pay bills on time and instantly check the status of past bills.

Simplify taxes with TurboTax
Quicken Starter Edition pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.

Enjoy free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new Quicken personal finance software, free phone support is available. For more information, visit our Help & Support site.

Save money and shop smart
Our free service--Quicken Picks--seeks out the best online coupons and discount offers just for you, on the stuff you care about. You also get cash back on all your purchases, helping you save even more. You can sign up for Quicken Picks anytime within your Quicken software.

What's New in 2010

Already using Quicken? Reasons to upgrade now:

New--See your most important info in one place
The new Quicken home page puts all your most important financial information in one easy-to-understand window, so you can see how you're doing at a glance.

Improved--Find the tools you need, faster
The improved menu and toolbar make it easier to find the tools you need to help organize your personal finances.

New--Getting started is a breeze
It's simpler than ever to put Quicken to work for you--so you can reach your personal finance goals faster. With the new Guided Setup, you just answer a few simple questions; we'll show you how Quicken works, and what to do next. You'll see your total financial picture come into focus even sooner than you expect.

New--Avoid late fees and penalties
We help you avoid overdraft fees and penalties--by showing you how much you'll have left in your account until your next paycheck.

Improved--Check for accuracy
We've made it easier to review your transactions, so you can quickly spot anything that looks inaccurate or out of place. If a transaction requires follow-up, you can flag it with a reminder.

Improved--Get tips from other Quicken users
With Quicken's Live Community, you can get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. If you have a question about something specific you're trying to do, just look to Live Community on the right of the Quicken screen for the answer.

Customer Reviews:

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Great for those of us with uncomplicated finances September 1, 2010
Merin (OK)
And I use "uncomplicated" loosely. At last count, I have 21 accounts that I track in Quicken, including four checking accounts, three savings accounts, ten credit cards, and four car loans. (Hey, don't judge. Some of those are store cards with $0 balance. ;)

I was upgrading from the 2004 "New User Edition" (probably that year's equivalent of Basic). I was satisfied with my old version, but had to bite the bullet and upgrade because I wanted to load it to my laptop. (Previous one came pre-installed on the desktop - no disk.) It worked perfectly. I simply created a copy of the file on my old computer, transferred that file to the new computer, and pointed Quicken to it when I was setting it up.

The hitches I had were relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, but frustrating enough to prevent me from giving it five stars.

- One of my checking accounts has an overdraft "line of credit", and I use it extensively for convenience and the LOW interest rate. Thus, at the time I was setting the accounts up, I had a negative balance. While configuring the online settings, I indicated that it was a "checking" account that "already exists." But due to the negative balance, Quicken stubbornly insisted it was a CC and only offered those accounts to choose from. It took several frustrating minutes for it to occur to me that this might be the problem. Finally I logged in and transferred funds from savings to bring the balance above $0, and the next attempt worked perfectly.

- The first download resulted in about three months' worth of transactions being downloaded. I never could locate an option to customize the download time frame. And the first time I did it, I didn't know it wouldn't prompt me to match the transactions. Thus, three months' worth of transactions in my busiest account got duplicated in the register. Deleting them was, needless to say, a huge PITA. (If this happens to you, know that it's much faster to delete transactions from the Reconcile screen.) Once I got that straightened out, I found the option to disable the automatic load (it's Edit > Preferences > Downloaded transactions, UNCHECK the box for "Automatically add..."). The result is that after synching up your accounts, a flag will appear next to the ones with new transactions. A list will appear at the bottom of the screen when you view each account, and it will make an effort to match them to transactions that already exist. Be warned, though, the first time you do this with an existing account it will be a pain. Any transaction that has already been reconciled in the register will appear as "new" in the download list. You can manually match them, but it's tedious. You can also delete them, but I wasn't sure what effect (if any) that would have the next time I downloaded and so I chose to manually match them.

- I've been stuck in an endless loop trying to sync up another checking account. When I go in through the program, I get continuous password errors (even though I am 100% positive I am using the correct password). And when I try to download manually from my bank's website, absolutely nothing happens. I have yet to figure out whether the problem lies with Quicken or my bank, although I'm inclined to believe it's my bank.

- I can't find the option to add the Reconcile button to the toolbar - it seems to only be accessible under Account Actions. I know, I'm picky, but having such a basic and common function require two clicks instead of one is already grating on me. I'm sure I'll get used to it, though.

So that's my experience so far. Minor, one-time inconveniences...not at all uncommon with any software upgrade. For the money, you can't beat this program. I've only had it a couple hours and I already LOVE the one-click download from all your accounts...this will save me a TON of time.

1 out of 5 stars

Will not let me import anything! August 30, 2010
AJ
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I purchased this given that I had previously used other versions of Quicken. However, I cannot comment on the money management of the program itself. The fact that Quicken refuses to use what they call 'Obsolete' formats - But, in reality this translates as 'formats which don't involve money going to Quicken', meant that I could not import any data. And I am not buying a piece of software so I can type in each transaction manually for the last 2 years! I nearly got the deluexe, I am so glad I did not.

Save yourself alot of money, time, hassle and stress with a simple pen and paper. Much more useful than this waste of space. I wish there was a 0 star rating.

Avoid.

5 out of 5 stars

I don't miss MS Money at all August 29, 2010
Steve Jahnke (Cary, IL United States)
I was a user of MS Money for years until MS decided not to continue the product with Windows 7. Quicken does all that Money did and then some. Download was painless, would prefer to have a disc but additional future downloads are possible. Well worth the price

3 out of 5 stars

Basic software August 26, 2010
T. Ellerbrock (Houston, Tx)
I needed to upgrade from Quicken 2007 because my bank updates stopped working. So, I held a chat session w/ Quicken customer service. They verified that the Starter Edition 2010 was the equivalent version (function) of Basic 2007. So, I downloaded the software from Amazon. During the import process, it did say that my previous version was incompatible, but the CS rep said that it would import just fine. And it did. When I started using the software, I immediately noticed that ALL of the investment functions that were there in Basic 2007 were inactive. The buttons were there, but they did nothing when clicked. Evidently, anything having to do with investments is not available until you upgrade to the Deluxe version. The only thing I can do is show a cash deposit to my investment accounts, but Quicken will now not let me enter market prices to calculate market value, ROI, etc. This is not critical for me, but sure was nice to have in Basic 2007 without having to pay extra. The overall Starter 2010 functionality (checking, savings, credit card) is still very good. I just wish I had purchased the actual software in the box rather than download it because there are no returns on downloads. I might have actually returned the Starter software and shopped around a bit more for a cheap Deluxe version.

3 out of 5 stars

Good basic finance software August 26, 2010
Spectral Warrior (Portland, OR United States)
This is a good, basic financial software product. I bought it to replace an old version of Microsoft Money. Transferring data from Money to Quicken took several attempts as Quicken had difficulty recognizing categories, distinguishing between categories and account transfers and misidentified account types. It probably would have been easier and less frustrating to just start from scratch. Downloading bank transactions appears to work fine, but I'm not convinced Quicken picks up and clears ALL transactions - there are a few that it seems to have missed. I also don't understand why it wants to register the software online at Intuit every time I connect with the bank; it did this when it was installed and I would think once was enough.

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