Quicken Deluxe 2011
Set goals and save more. Organizes all your accounts in one place. Automatically categorizes expenses so you can see where you’re spending and where to save. Helps you create a budget and tracks your progress against it. Alerts you to upcoming bills. Quicken Deluxe 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings. Set Personal Finance Goals and Save More View all your accounts in one place. See exactly where your money’s going with auto-categorization. Create–and stay–on budget. Stay on top of your day-to-day finances. Never miss a bill. Improved–View All Your Accounts in One Place Organizes your finances by bringing your online accounts together–including checking, savings, credit cards, loans, investment and retirement accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just one password. Quicken now aut
Quicken Deluxe 2011
- Quicken Deluxe 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings
- Shows where you’re spending and helps you see where to save, with more accurate auto-categorization
- Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
- Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
- An easier, faster, more streamlined experience than previous versions; updates faster than ever
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Review by D. Hawks for Quicken Deluxe 2011
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As a beta tester for Quicken 2011 I’ve had a couple months to really dive into the features of Quicken Deluxe 2011 and have been using it as my primary Personal Finance Software. The last version of Quicken I used was Quicken Deluxe 2008 after upgrading yearly since 2005. Prior to that I was a MS Money users since Money 97, upgrading every other version.
When I switched from Money to Quicken I felt that I gave up some nice user experiences and fluidity of the application. Money was getting a little too friendly with butterflies and cartoony icons. Quicken on the other hand felt very old school, pretty rigid and sorta ugly. But I felt it was more robust and learned to work in the clunkier UI.
Quicken 2011 has gone a long way toward improving the user experience while maintaining the robust feature set. The influence of the Mint team is immediate obvious on the default home page with a drill-down spending pie chart that is taken directly form the Mint site. This is a good feature for quickly seeing where your money has gone. The ability to click down into sub-categories and then payees is very nice. It’s also helpful to catch if you’ve miscategorized a transaction. Below that on the home screen is the upcoming bills/reminders so you have a clear view (after entering the reminders) of where your money is going to go. You can enter/skip this bills from that home page without going to another screen or register. At the bottom of the home page is a customizable spending tracker. I took advantage of the customization and removed this completely.
These home page features and their logical, easy links to Spending and Bills tabs lay out a good workflow for managing your day-to-day finances. Unfortunately, as you move further across the tabs you get to the Planning tab with the Spending Planner, Lifetime Planner and Tax Center. The latter two don’t appear to have been touched since the 2008 versions but the Spending Planner is promoted from the My Savings Plan to front and center for planning purposes. I cannot figure out how this is supposed to work and be better than the budget tool in Quicken. And many beta testers had this same experience. The Spending Planner really falls short of being useful and I ignore it completely. Intuit could really benefit its users by including some video tutorials about how this feature is supposed to work and the philosophy behind it (the Help files are as cryptic as the feature). Ultimately, I would prefer that Quicken have it’s budget feature better integrated to the Planning tab and not contained in a separate modal box. The budget tool appears to not have been updated since I started using Quicken in 2005 – and it is really one of the key tools I use consistently.
Overall, the at-a-glance and easy drill down of the home page, Spending and Bills tab make for a good upgrade from downlevel versions. If you are using Quicken 2010 you may not see real compelling need to upgrade, but for 2008 and earlier users, this is an upgrade you should really consider.
Review by spinningwood for Quicken Deluxe 2011
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Some things have improved with Quicken 2011, some things seem not to work as well as previous versions and things quicken can’t couldn’t do in the past it still can’t do.
Negatives (after a couple of days):
1) If you trade options or anything but the most mundane investment products, forget about tracking them in Quicken. Prior versions couldn’t do it and 2011 can’t either. I dont’ even bother to download invesmtent transactions anymore. It’s easier to track them in excel. At least I can download option quotes in excel. Forget it in quicken.
2) Downloading credit card / bank transactions has become more cumbersome with each new version of quicken. It’s almost to the point where it just isn’t worth it anymore. A major issue for me is an almost complete inability of quicken to correctly match downloaded transactions. Even though I have no transactions that need to be matched, quicken just arbitrarily (seems that way anyway) picks old transactions to match newly downloaded transactions to. You can’t turn off automatic transaction matching (this would be a big improvement in my opinion). You have to manually unmatch each downloaded transaction before you can accept it. Years ago this was one of the best features of quicken. Now it’s one of the most frustrating.
You can’t download transaction from some banks until after their monthly closing date. What use it that? If I only want to see transactions once a month I can just look at the monthly statement!
3) Copying old transactions from previous versions of quicken to the new version is a lot more cumbersome than it needs to be. You can do it if you know the secret codes to add to the exported data files for the account types quicken doesn’t want you to be able to import, but why should that be necessary?
4) “Renaming rules” seem to use the same corrupt logic as the download matching. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to abuse themselves by using this “capability”. At least you can turn this worthless feature off. Wish I could turn off transaction matching as well.
Positives:
1) The annoying quicken starup chime doesn’t seem to be as obnoxiously loud as the previous version.
2) 2011 seems snappier and more responsive than the previous version.
3) Wish there were more, but that’s all I’ve got.
Ed
Review by R for Quicken Deluxe 2011
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Just installed Quicken 2011. As expected the installer removes your old version. Unfortunately, the new program was unable to read my old Quicken data file so had it had to restore from backup. Luckily I had a recent backup or I would have had to re-enter the latest data.
Review by K. benford for Quicken Deluxe 2011
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I have used Quicken Deluxe software since 1994. I have always found it to be user friendly, just right for personal finances. Every year I purchase the current software and always find slight, but good improvements. This year they seemed to tweak it just right. Less keys strokes to accomplish tasks that took 2 or 3 to do last year. I think this year they improve it considerably better. For personal bookkeeping this is perfect for you. As a former bookkeeper this software does not overload you with apps that you do not need.
Review by B. Clawson for Quicken Deluxe 2011
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I have to say that this was my first time being a Beta Tester, and it was a great experience. Over the years, I’ve tried various methods for tracking my finances, and most recently tried a bunch of offerings available to Linux users. My conclusion is that Quicken is still the best option out there.
Some complain that it’s bloated, but what do you expect with a product that’s trying to be everything to everyone? Quicken’s online integration with multiple financial institutions just makes it so easy to stay on top of everything that happens in my financial world.
Pros:
* Financial institution integration.
* Budget management
* Financial Planning tools
Cons:
* Menus are difficult at times, i.e. the option you’re looking for is hard to find.
* For most people, myself included, there are just too many options.
* It’s still so new that not all financial institutions support online integration with the new version.