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Quicken Premier software helps you manage & grow your personal finances so you may save more, maximize investments & increase your net worth

Quicken Premier Personal Finance Software

300 Manage and grow your investments

Organizes all your accounts - bank, credit card, investments, loans, retirement accounts -in one place

Safely and securely imports all of your financial info so you don’t have to enter them manually

Automatically categorizes expenses so you may see where you’re spending

Helps you manufacture a budget and tracks your progression versus it

Shows your returns over time and compares to the market

Analyzes your portfolio so you may measure versus your goals

Creates reports that tracks cost basis, capital gains and tax deductions to make tax time easier

Fully Redesigned! Better Budgeting
Now, it’s posing no difficulty than ever to set savings goals with our redesigned budgeting tool. Keep track of dissimilar budget categories and recognise how much you have left to spend each month.

Fully Redesigned! Reduce Your Debt
Create a customized plan to reduce, or eliminate, your debt. We make it easy to stick to your plan with our new, easy-to-use, interactional tools.

Upgraded! Free client service

We’re here when you need us with free client service and extended hours. No more waiting for call backs!

New! Customize your view
Our new huge font mode makes it more comfortable to see where you stand – without straining your eyes.

Improved! Track your equity
We’ve altered our property and debt dashboard to give you a truer picture of the equity you’ve earned.

Most helpful customer reviews

633 of 636 people found the following review helpful.
Quicken Users Don’t Waste Your Money On This Upgrade
By M. Thompson
Summary: If you are new to Quicken, it is a very good program and worth using. However, Quicken 2012 has very few changes over 2011 and is an unnecessary upgrade.

I have been using Quicken for at least the past ten years. I have upgraded each year or two and by the 2010 upgrade I was becoming frustrated with the program because it was becoming slower and less user friendly. Then I read that Quicken had purchased “Mint”, an online product, and had hired the founder of Mint to upgrade the Quicken product. I purchased Quicken 2011 and was extremely pleased with changes. The format was much easier to use and the program was beginning to be more flexible.

I have used Quicken 2011 extensively over the past year and throughout that time I was anxiously awaiting Quicken 2012. I figured that if 2011 was such a great improvement, that 2012 would be even better. I have been watching Amazon for the release date of 2012 and downloaded it the day it came out.

Well imagine my disappointment when I found that 2012 is just 2011 with a larger font option. Here is a link to the list of new features of 2012 over 2011 from the quicken website. [...] As you can see the improvements are minor. I am very disappointed as I expected much more.

Anyway I am a loyal Quicken user and will continue to be but if I knew what I know now I would not have wasted my money on the upgrade and would have stuck with 2011 for another year.

NOTE: I checked the other 7 glowing “reviews” that have have been written before me and I find them suspect. All seven were written on the same day and each “reviewer” has not submitted any other reviews to Amazon besides Quicken/Quickbooks products. I rely on Amazons reviews for my purchasing decisions (see my previous reviews) and to me these reviews look like more like social marketing than honest user opinions.

165 of 167 people found the following review helpful.
More of the Same
By Stephen Brown
I skipped 2011 and am upgrading straight from 2010 to 2012.

I (try to) use almost all the features in Quicken, so if you just want something very basic to keep track of your checking account balance, many of these comments may not apply to you.

Many of the same problems still exist:
1. The tax planning center forms still don’t “remember” which radio buttons you clicked on when entering projected amounts. When selecting other projection options, the numbers don’t always change like they’re supposed (but other times they do). Tax planning numbers randomly change or get reset back to earlier values. This issue has been around for me at least since 2010.
2. I get more frequent and severe errors when updating my accounts. This portion of the program was supposed to be faster than ever, but it’s at least as slow as before.

Other things I don’t like:
1. You have to register just to update your accounts online. It irritates me when companies sneakily sell you a product without telling you that you will essentially be forced to register.
2. I haven’t been impressed with Quicken customer support. They have yet to be able to address any issues I’ve had. Usually I get some variation on “that’s a known problem” (many of which have been known about for years!) or “you need to manually rebuild your data file” (which fixed some problems but not most of them).

Things I like:
1. The interface is cleaner and simpler. Many of the unnecessary and duplicated buttons have been removed (I think this happened in the 2011 version). However, it’s almost too clean since it takes longer to do some tasks. So some of the changes were good, others not so much.
2. At least it’s consistent. No radical changes, so that eases the transition for users. On the other hand, I struggle to understand why I keep having to pay for something that hasn’t really changed. I just do it because they cleverly break a few features so that you have to upgrade at least every couple years.

The program isn’t horrible if you stick to the core features that work well, but it has so many bugs that I would still consider it beta software. The particularly frustrating aspect of this is that many of the bugs have been around for the multiple versions I’ve used.

Overall, I only use Quicken because there aren’t really any other options out there. If there were, I’d switch in a heartbeat.

110 of 113 people found the following review helpful.
More bugs, few new features, save your money.
By Shopaholic
I have been a Quicken user for 10 plus years. Unlike 2011… 2012 is a disappointment. Just a month or so before a new release my credit union stops being able to download using Quicken with the CC-501 error. I have come to accept this, and usually purchasing the new version corrects this problem immediately. This year it didn’t fix the problem, along with the bugs, black screens, hang ups when using the investment account register and trying to delete a downloaded transaction etc. Support acknowlegdes the problem, has no fix and has stopped responding to my inquiries about a resolution. Save your $$$ and stick with 2011. I have already requested a refund from Intuit, so far no response.

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