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Quicken
Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business | | Developed by | Intuit, Inc. |
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| Latest release | 2009 |
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| Type | Accounting software |
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| License | Proprietary |
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| Website | quicken.intuit.com |
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Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Intuit, Inc. Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh systems. An online version is also available. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier and Quicken Home & Business. Each version of Quicken also tends to have the release year in the product name, (eg. Quicken Basic 2008).
Development of the UK version of Quicken was discontinued in January 2005.
The last version of Quicken for Macintosh computers was Quicken 2007, which is still sold on the Quicken web site. It will be replaced by Quicken Financial Life for Mac in the summer of 2009.
[edit] Related products
The Quicken brand has been extended to other personal, or household areas, including healthcare. Quicken Health is a free online tool for health care consumers enrolled in participating health plans. The product will "allow members to manage and direct their health care finances, view and organize medical expenses, payments and service histories, and download and organize personal health claims data,"[1]. The Quicken Medical Expense Manager is a desktop software tool for managing healthcare paperwork, tracking claims and payments, and consolidating related information.
Quicken Kids & Money was a web-based program that aims to help parents teach five- to eight-year-old children how to earn, spend, save and share money. It is now discontinued.[2]
Other products are aimed at home business and seem to fit in a space for a less formal business than would be using QuickBooks. Quicken Rental Property Manager is a desktop software tool for managing rental properties, tracking tenants, expenses, payments and producing tax reports.
[edit] Software as a service
Quicken Online is a free, hosted solution (see software as a service) by Intuit. Quicken Online helps newly financially independent individuals meet their basic personal finance needs and make the most of what they have paycheck to paycheck. Intuit hosts all of the user's data, and provides patches and regularly upgrades the software automatically. Initially this was launched as a monthly paid subscription, but is now released as a free service.
[edit] Criticisms
- Sunset policy that stops online features from working after a certain amount of time.[3][4]
- Quicken stopped supporting its software in the United Kingdom in 2005 leaving many thousands of users with only partially functional software. [5]
- Quicken users have reported an unusually large number of software bugs for a commercial product, both minor and major, many of which have not been fixed in recent versions and updates.[6][7][8]
- Quicken Online is only available to users in the USA or Canada
[edit] See also
- Comparison of accounting software
[edit] References
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