Quicken Deluxe 2010

CNET Editors' Rating

3.5 stars
    Overall score: 7.8 (3.5 stars)

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CNET Editors' Review

CNET Editors' Rating

3.5 stars Very good
    Overall score: 7.8 (3.5 stars)
  • Setup and interface: 7.0
  • Features: 8.0
  • Performance: 8.0
  • Service and support: 8.0
Edited by: Lindsey Turrentine

The good: The Quicken 2010 product family gets a fresh home page that makes setting up a personal home finance operation easy. Quicken now also automatically categorizes expenses.

The bad: Many second-tier tools are clunky and text-heavy; Quicken junks up the desktop with extra shortcuts.

The bottom line: Quicken 2010 is a solid finance package, especially for novices, but offers little that's substantively new.

Review:

With Quicken 2010, Intuit strives to make its flagship money management application easier to navigate and simpler to set up, thanks to spruced-up visuals and a refreshed start-up wizard. Although already a solid balance-keeper and financial assistant in previous versions, Quicken 2010 adds a few new features to visualize your monthly budget and assets.

The Quicken 2010 product family includes Quicken Starter Edition ($29.99) for tracking budgets and upcoming bills; Quicken Deluxe ($59.99), which includes tools to help you save up for a large purchase; Quicken Premier ($89.99), which helps track investments; Quicken Home and Business ($99. ... Expand full review

With Quicken 2010, Intuit strives to make its flagship money management application easier to navigate and simpler to set up, thanks to spruced-up visuals and a refreshed start-up wizard. Although already a solid balance-keeper and financial assistant in previous versions, Quicken 2010 adds a few new features to visualize your monthly budget and assets.

The Quicken 2010 product family includes Quicken Starter Edition ($29.99) for tracking budgets and upcoming bills; Quicken Deluxe ($59.99), which includes tools to help you save up for a large purchase; Quicken Premier ($89.99), which helps track investments; Quicken Home and Business ($99.99); and Quicken Rental Property Management ($149.99). We evaluated Quicken Deluxe 2010.

Installation

At almost 70MB, Quicken Deluxe 2010 takes several minutes to install. Installation was painless up to the point when the software junked up our desktop with four icons: the Quicken icon, plus another three unwanted shortcuts advertising a Quicken credit card and other additional services.

Features

Quicken's core features continue doing what they've done for years: chiefly, importing your financial information to help you automatically and manually track your spending and savings. Not just a simple ledger for balancing your bank book, Quicken's additional tools also help alert you to upcoming bills and to your overall budget.


The Quicken 2010 product line gets a prettied-up interface that provides an at-a-glance summary of your finances.

In the 2010 edition, Intuit has applied some cosmetic changes that streamline and simplify the software. One change is a sleeker setup wizard to guide you through the process of importing your financial information, adding bill reminders, and setting up budgets. This wizard is moot if you're a returning user importing years of data from past Quicken versions, but new users will have an easier time getting started with this version than in years past.

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"Purchase price is NOT all you'll pay! 9.95 download fee" By kclarkadpi

Pros nothing. It is frustrating from every end.

Cons In order to download daily transactions from my credit card company, and many other major companies, the company charges a 9.95 per MONTH fee to do so! Otherwise, you're stuck only downloading the statement at the end of the month.

Summary I was forced to switch from Microsoft Money b/c it is being discontinued, and Quicken was the obvious fallback. I hate Quicken 2010!! They charge fees to banks to use the auto download feature, and many companies are passing on that fee to consumers. $120 extra per year is ... Expand full review

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  • License type: Complete package
  • Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista

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