Good personal-finance software, Quicken? - GoFuckYourself.com

Sly · 06-16-2019, 02:32 PM

Over the past month I've gotten pretty handy with QuickBooks and am really starting to like it after getting over the learning curve. Having something similar for personal finances would be really beneficial. I use Mint.com now but there is really no comparison. Mint is very basic and it cannot do breakdowns like you can in QuickBooks.

I was taking a look at Quicken but the website is not very helpful in breaking down the available features and capabilities. Quicken was sold off a few years ago by Intuit so I'm curious how it still competes.

Does anyone use Quicken? Any comments? Anything better I should be looking at?

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Sly · 06-18-2019, 02:01 PM

A little update...

I went ahead and bought the premium version of Quicken for around $48. It's a little bit clunky to setup and you can't use the web version unless you have the client based version working as well which makes me think they just haven't caught up with technology.

The reports themselves are useful, slightly better than Mint.com, not near as powerful as QuickBooks.

You do have more control over the transactions then Mint. Organizing, renaming, splitting, grouping, etc. You can also easily pull up reports based on those organizations.

Ultimately I decided that I will be getting a refund on Quicken and purchase a Simple Start QuickBooks subscription for myself. It's much more expensive than Quicken but much more powerful and since I already know the software, it's a no-brainer at this point as I'm not completely happy with the Quicken reports since I'm familiar with QuickBooks reports.

I would say that it should be fine for most people and it is a better tool than Mint.com

Grapesoda · 06-18-2019, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Sly

Over the past month I've gotten pretty handy with QuickBooks and am really starting to like it after getting over the learning curve. Having something similar for personal finances would be really beneficial. I use Mint.com now but there is really no comparison. Mint is very basic and it cannot do breakdowns like you can in QuickBooks.

I was taking a look at Quicken but the website is not very helpful in breaking down the available features and capabilities. Quicken was sold off a few years ago by Intuit so I'm curious how it still competes.

Does anyone use Quicken? Any comments? Anything better I should be looking at?

yeah and I sent the files to my accountant every 3 months. made my tax prep painless. (the banks are setup to deal with quicken as well)

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Sly Let's do some business! Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 31,323	A little update... I went ahead and bought the premium version of Quicken for around $48. It's a little bit clunky to setup and you can't use the web version unless you have the client based version working as well which makes me think they just haven't caught up with technology. The reports themselves are useful, slightly better than Mint.com, not near as powerful as QuickBooks. You do have more control over the transactions then Mint. Organizing, renaming, splitting, grouping, etc. You can also easily pull up reports based on those organizations. Ultimately I decided that I will be getting a refund on Quicken and purchase a Simple Start QuickBooks subscription for myself. It's much more expensive than Quicken but much more powerful and since I already know the software, it's a no-brainer at this point as I'm not completely happy with the Quicken reports since I'm familiar with QuickBooks reports. I would say that it should be fine for most people and it is a better tool than Mint.com __________________ Vacares - Web Hosting, Domains, O365, Security & More - Paxum and BTC Accepted Windows VPS now available Great for TSS, Nifty Stats, remote work, virtual assistants, etc. Click here for more details.

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