Quicken Premier 2006 Personal Finance Software

Quicken Premier 2006 helps you increase your net worth and achieve your goals. It contains all the powerful tools included in Quicken Basic and Deluxe, plus a full set of tools designed to help you improve your financial standings. Monitor your net worth, optimize your investments and save time on taxes. Track all your accounts and investments -- stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs and more -- from one place. Manage your holdings without having to enter every historical transaction Stay on top of your portfolio, with with up-to-the-minute information from your brokerage and 401(k) provider Maximize earnings while minimizing impact, by creating (and following) a customized budget Create plans to reduce your debt, forecast your cash flow, and plan for large future expenses like tuiton and home ownership Track checking, savings, and credit card transactions in one place Reconcile bank statements and balance your checkbook in just a few minutes Categorize your expenses automatically, for easier management Manage your cash flow, by always knowing what transactions are coming -- giving you insight on how much to save or spend Download bank or credit card information, and pay bills online by connecting to your bank and credit card sites Transfer data into TurboTax Save reports as PDF files
Customer Review: Investment functionality and customer service stink!
I just bought Quicken 2006 (Premier). I had been using Quicken 2000 and wanted to update my ability to manage my investments. I was dismayed by the bad reviews here, but couldn't find a product that looked any better, so I bought it and hoped for the best.

So far, I've been very disappointed. I have had nothing but problems with the investment management functionality. When I set up my accounts initially, each time I went through the setup wizard I got different choices for no good reason that I could see. Even though I own the same mutual fund in more than one investment account, the wizard wouldn't let me do this and I had to set up with the accounts with zero balances then go back and enter my transactions outside the wizard. When I liquidated one investment account and tried to transfer the cash to a new account, Quicken asked me whether this was a contribution to a 2005 or 2006 IRA, and there was no way to say that this IRA was ten years old. Then, when I tried to set up to download my account activity, the main reason I bought this product, Quicken would only let me set it up on some accounts, even though the accounts that don't work are all with Fidelity, Fidelity tells me these accounts can be downloaded to Quicken, and I have other Fidelity accounts that I have been able to download in Quicken. I suspect that the problem is that my husband and I have four separate accounts with Fidelity with different customer IDs and PINs, but I can't verify that. In fact, Quicken has a "PIN Vault" to let you store your PINs for downloading, but it only lets you store one PIN per financial institution, not one per account.

I've tried to figure out all of these problems, to no avail. I started with Quicken's help. No help. I went to their web site and searched the knowledge base. When I have found documents that looked relevant, they were missing. Then I tried live help. Their web site lets you type in questions for the investment center and submit them, but then you get a message saying that investment center questions are too complicated for live help and to try email. In the meantime, the question you typed in has disappeared, and you have to re-enter everything. Then, every time I've asked one of these questions through email, I'm told that I have to call their technical support line, which costs $25 per call.

This product and the so-called support that goes along with it are a disgrace!
Customer Review: Better than Money
I've been using Money 2002 since it came with my laptop. I decided to upgrade to Quicken 2006 Premier and it's awesome. In typical microsoft fashion, I found Money to be quirky, hard to navigate and the general interface to be not pleasing.

I have seen some people post complaints about switching from Money to Quicken, but I had no problems and switched 2 checking accounts, a savings account and a retirement account in 15 minutes. The only reason for me to keep money is for a record of old transactions.

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