Quicken 2001 Basic

If you're looking to pay your bills, balance your checkbook, bank online, and track your investments, 2001 Basic should give you all that you need. For people who want a bit more punch in their personal finance package, you may want to check out Quicken 2001 Deluxe, which delves deeper into investments, 401(k) plans, and capital-gains taxes. However, Quicken 2001 Basic is a solid and dependable product, perfect for the first-time user or for someone who is concerned with personal-household financial management.

One of the best new features to the 2001 line of Quicken products is the anytime, anywhere access afforded by online banking at Quicken.com. You can now download your data from the Web (provided you have Internet access) and access your account balances, transfer funds, and pay bills. The application provides a long list of affiliated banks from which to choose your institution and even gave us the customer service number for our bank.

At the end of the day, Quicken 2001 Basic is a painless way to simplify your personal finances and to organize your household expenses. --Gisele Toueg

Amazon.com Product Description
Balancing your checkbook is just the beginning when you use Quicken 2001 Basic. View all your account balances at a glance. Write checks, print checks, or even send payments online. Schedule payments and receive reminders for when they're due. Bank online conveniently, downloading your data from the Web. Access your account balances, transfer funds, and pay bills. Quicken works with over 1,200 banks, credit card, and brokerage companies.

See where it all goes with reports and graphs--get quick and easy answers to questions about your spending, budget, net worth, and more, and then create a budget you can realistically follow. Track your investments and then compare them, downloading prices on stocks and mutual funds right from the Web.

Note: Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Additional fees may apply for online banking and bill payment. Services vary among financial institutions and are subject to their terms and conditions.

Product Description
Intuit Quicken 2001 Basic (New User Edition) . Quicken 2001 Basic is the easiest way to start orgainizing your finances. Be able to balance your checkbook, pay bills, create budgets, develop reports and graphs all in Quicken 2001 Basic.

Intuit has hit on a good way of making money: write a sloppy product, don't test it and charge your customers for finding the problems. Oh, and make yourselves very difficult to contact.

Check out the forums on the Quicken web site to get a flavour for what to expect if you are seriously considering a purchase.


Quicken Basic is very basic   November 21, 2000
 37 out of 44 found this review helpful

The Basic version of Quicken 2001 appears to be a tickler only. This version was purchased for the simple task of printing checks (due to my poor handwriting), but there is insufficient flexibility in formatting the print to (1)change the memo, and (2)align the fields on my checks. I am sure that with Quicken check forms it would do better, but that should have been mentioned in the specifications. The Help instructions seem to be written for a different version of Quicken, as they mention course and fine print-field adjustments that were not available on the Basic version of 2001. E-mail help, which is now fairly standard at other software publishers, is not (yet) available.


Good Software but beware if you use Pocket Quicken   November 5, 2000
 29 out of 30 found this review helpful

I was upgrading from and older version of Quicken and I found this to have more ways to view your finances. I just use this for my basic accounts and it is very good in keeping me organized. I don't think that they have made any upgrades that I think are useful for the average person.

I gave this software three stars because of the problem with synchronizing my pocket quicken. If do some research on landware.com you will see that the 2001 version uses a different method to read new transactions. It tries to match the transaction to an old one. If you don't recognize that it doesn't say "new" then the transaction will not be entered. You have to be very carefull when you accept data to your home computer.

Overall it is good software but I would rather use the older software for the pocket quicken.