Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
- Quicken Deluxe 2010 helps you set personal finance goals and save more
- 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
- Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year
- Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation
Quicken Deluxe 2010 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings. An intuitive “Spending Planner” summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Click to enlarge. See your full financial picture at a glance. Click to enlarge. Getting started is a breeze. Click to enlarge. Avoid late fees and penalties. Click to enlarge. Get help and advice from other Quicken users without
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List Price: $ 59.95
Price: $ 39.99
Review by M. B Hyson for Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
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I’ve been using Quicken 2008 and decided to buy and download Quicken 2010 this afternoon. After installing I was very disappointed to find that the free online version actually was better suited for my needs than the purchased copy. The online version has more options with my bank (it can pull loan infomation while the Deluxe edition cannot) and I don’t use many of the other features that warrant the cost of this one.
I decided that I would ask for the refund that is advertised with the product:
“100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you’re not 100% satisfied, return your Quicken Deluxe 2010 personal finance software with your dated receipt within 60 days of purchase for a refund of the purchase price (return shipping and handling charges not included). ”
I sat, waiting in queue for half an hour to get a support person on a live chat to request my refund. He told me that they will not honor the refund because I bought the download version and I would have to request it from Amazon. In my opinion, that “Satisfaction Guarantee” needs to state that if you buy a download edition you have to go back to the retailer. There is no clarification of that before I click to buy and it’s not as if I’m buying from a non-reputable source I trust that a purchase from Amazon will follow any requirements from the manufacturer. A quick look at the policy and Amazon has clearly stated that “Downloadable software products” are not returnable. I hope that they will work with me on this more than Intuit, but, as it stands I’m stuck with software that I don’t want and a “100% Satisfaction Guarantee” that is not being honored.
I only give the application 2 stars because if your banks fully support the features that you need and you use more features than those which are available in the free online version then it may be worth the cost, just don’t buy the download unless you have to have it right away!
Review by BabbleRush for Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
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I have been a Microsoft Money user and switched to Quicken 2009 when Microsoft announced they would discontinue Money. While Quicken 2009 was not perfect, it did what it was supposed to do (mostly). Given that I had a large amount of legacy Money data, I decided to try (as in buy) Quicken 2010 mostly for its in-built Money converter. I should have stuck to Quicken 2009 because it has been an incredibly frustrating experience so far.
Every time I tried to open a file, I kept getting the dreaded “Quicken Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close” error making the program virtually un-usable. I got in touch with Quicken support (after a 30 minute wait) who essentially asked me to re-install the software using the QcleanUI method. This seemed to work fine for about 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes that it worked, I figured it would not update some accounts which previously updated without a hitch (in Quicken 2009). I am now back to getting the dreaded quicken launcher error every time I try to open a file.
Bottomline, Quicken 2010 is plain un-usable at this point. Apparently, I cannot get a refund if the product is downloaded via Amazon. So much for 60-day no questions asked money-back guarantee. I hate it when things don’t work when they should. Quicken 2010 unfortunately, does not work.
Review by T. Taylor for Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
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I have been using Quicken since version 1 or 2 in the late eighties. It has always had some annoying peculiarities I admit, and it has occasionally frustrated me, but hey, so has my wife, and we have stayed happily married a lot longer than I have been using Quicken. I use Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax regularly. I have used Quicken on every MS OS since DOS 3, and on every platform since the 8086 days until my current home-built Core Duo with Win 7 64 bit. Inuit forces me to update much more often than I prefer, and I wish they would just allow me to pay an annual fee and use their automated update system to modify the software under the hood instead of forcing me to upgrade every three years in order to continue the online updates of my financial institutions.
Anyway, seeing several negative reviews of Quicken on Amazon was surprising to me, and I decided to chime in to give a little balance. Having used this product consistently for over 20 years, I can say without hesitation that is the most trouble free, least complicated piece of software I have ever used. It has quirks; downloading data from financial institutions is still a work in progress, but honestly, 99.44% of the time, the software and downloads work really well, and the 2010 version is improved over the 2008 version as far as the interface with the financial institutions. I upgraded because ver. 2010 is designed to work with Win 7 64 bit. I have over 200,000 transactions in my data file, and have never lost so much as a decimal point. Of course, I back up each time I make entries or download data as well. The program also makes regular backups in its program data file. There is NO way to lose Quicken data; there are too many redundant files for that to happen.
I cannot speak for Money users’ woes when migrating to Quicken, but I imagine a little searching on Quicken and/or Money user forums or Google searches could provide some assistance for their issues. And, being a regular shopper at Amazon and having dealt with Intuit CS occasionally over the years, I am very suspect about not being able to come to some satisfactory resolution with either of the companies about refunds or credits if the claims are legitimate. Neither company is hard-nosed. (If you want to deal with a company that really doesn’t care about their customers, try AT&T, but I digress.)
I see at least one individual has had trouble with his scheduled transactions working and unsuccessful in modifying those transactions. At a certain point, if the medium is unreliable, it would seem they would either change their method of doing business, or go online to the free Quicken forums and discover how others are coping with the same problems, with the same software, and same financial institutions. Or–like Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh–they can just sit on the nettle and complain about it hurting their bottom if that is their idea of fun.
Intuit is an American corporation that has managed to dodge the take-overs, competitors, and new concepts that have made so many other companies disappear. I give them credit for producing reliable, intuitive, straight forward financial software that simplifies home and small business accounting for those of us who need the help. And, no, I do not work for or even own stock in Intuit.
Review by Grandpa for Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
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After replacing my aging XP machine with a shiny new Windows 7 (64-bit) machine, I found that my Quicken 2009 Deluxe would no longer print properly on my network HP Laserjet, though it worked just fine running on the old XP machine. Every other program I have prints just fine with Windows 7, including non-MS stuff like Sun OpenOffice, Firefox, Sun Virtualbox, etc. So after 2 full days of troubleshooting, without success, I bought Quicken 2010 Deluxe, assuming (!) that the newer version would work properly: WRONG!
Two more days of troubleshooting, with tech support from Intuit, HP and Microsoft, usergroups, and still no joy. There seems to be an incompatibility between Quicken and 64-bit environments, and HP printers. There’s a lot of finger-pointing but no real solution, at least at this point in time. Since every other program works fine, I have to assume the problem lies within Quicken. For the current status, visit Quicken Support and search for article 5893, which currently says:
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“What if I’m unable to print using an HP Printer using a Windows 64 Bit Operating System?
Updated: 9/21/2009 | Article ID: 5893
We are continuing to work with HP to provide the best solution for this issue. HP has released updates to most products affected by this issue, and is continuing to develop a solution for the remaining products. For more information, and to determine if a solution is available for your product, please visit the HP Website here.”
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Nothing on the HP site solved my problems, needless to say.
I have been a Quicken user for over 20 years, and I’ve been generally happy with it, even as it has evolved from a neat, concise program into bloatware, but this is intolerable. Let the buyer beware! This is a new low in customer support.
Now I’m going to have to keep my old XP box around to do my finances until either Intuit fixes it (don’t hold your breath!) OR I find a different finance program: my next option to explore. GnuCash looks very good, and if Intuit doesn’t fix Quicken by Jan 10 as promised, that is where I am going.
By the way, there are many alternatives to Quicken available, many of which are free, open-source packages. See the Wikipedia page “Comparison of accounting software”.
Review by Fred Smith for Quicken Deluxe 2010 [Download]
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I recently upgraded from quicken 2007 to 2010; after decades of use, and numerous upgrades, this is the first time I’ve regretted using quicken.
A serious bug results in an error in the calculation of the cost basis for investements. Quicken support was ignorant of the problem, and suggested uninstall 2010, reinstall 2007, then reinstall 2010 (all of which doesn’t fix the problem). The problem is acknowledged on the quicken live community web site, but I can’t find a date for release of a fix. Current version is R3. I thought, incorrectly, that this was enough to catch any major bugs.
My existing copy of home inventory management quit working after I upgraded to 2010.
Don’t buy this now–wait at least for release 4.