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| Quicken Premier Home & Business 2006 [Old Version] | ![Quicken Premier Home & Business 2006 [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GJ5F0K0SL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Intuit, Inc.
Category: Software
Buy New: $89.99
New (1) Used (4) from $29.19
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3222
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 294951
Model: 283652
UPC: 028287011076
EAN: 0028287011076
ASIN: B0009XB15Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 No QIF - At Last December 7, 2005
5 out of 21 found this review helpful
It's interesting how people can see such a positive as a negative. The fact that Quicken no longer supports QIF is excellent because it's going to force the remaining institutions that no longer support it, to provide the much easier to use Direct Connect or the less easy (but still preferable to QIF) Web Connect.
 Intuit missed the boat with this one! December 7, 2005
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
I have been a Quicken user since it was a DOS application back in the mid `80s. It has always been a very good and reliable product. However: Quicken 2006 is by far the worst release of Quicken Intuit has ever produced. There are many improvements that make it better, but the drawbacks trump any advantage to upgrading. If you are considering buying Quicken for the first time I highly recommend it, but if you can still get a Quicken 2005 version I would recommend you buy it rather than this version. If you are considering upgrading, I would suggest you keep your prior version of Quicken and wait to see if Intuit corrects the many discrepancies in this version, or corrects them in their 2007 product.
Amongst the many things needing correction in this version is the way group scheduled transactions are handled. I opened a new checking account and wanted to change the register a scheduled transaction group went into from the old to the new account. I found Quicken 2006 no longer allows you to do this. You either must change it manually each time you add the transactions to you register or delete the group and create an identical group pointing to the new register. All previous versions of Quicken allowed you to change registers with out any trouble. Also: I inadvertently said to skip a transaction group recording. No problem: All I need do is edit the group and change the "Next Scheduled Date" back to the date skipped...wrong! Quicken 2006 no longer allows you to modify the "Next Scheduled Date". All of this information is grayed out when you edit the group. Once again my only option was to delete the group and create a new identical group with the inadvertently skipped due date as the beginning date. Again: All previous versions of Quicken allowed you to make these modifications. I started an online chat with Quicken support on these and other issues only to find out what I told you here. There is no longer any way to accomplish what I needed to accomplish in Quicken 2006. At the end of one chat session the technician I was chatting with told me he had received more questions on these issues than any other issue. He suggested I submit a suggestion request Intuit put these functions back into the current product, which I did. If enough people do so it is possible Intuit will correct these discrepancies and make this product the excellent product it has always been. There are many other issues, but this should be enough to let you know this product needs correction before it is worth upgrading to.
Now that I have tore this product apart let me say this: Quicken is still a very good product. I would highly recommend it over its only real competition, Microsoft Money. There are many improvements made to Quicken 2006 that are good. If they correct these few shortcomings it would be worth upgrading to. Intuit has always been a very good company producing high quality software. They missed the boat with this version, but I expect they will make adjustments to rectify these discrepancies. If not with updates to this version then in their 2007 release.
I would not recommend this product November 23, 2005
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this software to be able to download my financial information like checking, visa, etc. Then I found out that my financial instutions are not subscribers to quicken, but do allow downloading in the qif,ofx, and cma formats... You would think that with ofx being there I would be able to import this into the quicken software but I was not able to... quicken only allows its version of ofx to import into checking, savings, visa, etc. and as far as qif files it says that it can be imported, but here again not into checking, savings, visa, etc...
I think that buyer are better off buying something else...
Downloading data - forget it November 13, 2005
18 out of 21 found this review helpful
I got a copy of Quicken 2006 mainly to organize credit card statements, bank accounts and brokerage transactions. I've used TurboTax before and Intuit has done a good job with that product when it comes to downloaded information.
No such luck with Quicken. Here's a list of what I tried:
1. Citibank - I had to practically manually download the data from the citibank website. The resulting data seemed accurate.
2. DinersClub Mastercard - no support from within Quicken (you have to go to the web site and download quicken files).
3. Brown and Company Brokerage - downloaded but the resulting data was inaccurate in many ways.
4. Credit Suisse Brokerage - download worked - most data was ok but it couldn't recover the "basis" information from the account.
I'm packing up the software and sending it back. I'm sure Intuit would probably blame the various institutions but it's too far off to even bother looking for support.
 Quicken Premier H&B 2006 September 29, 2005
3 out of 21 found this review helpful
I have updated from Quicken Premier 2005. I am very please with the resoults, if I had known what was in this program I would have updated earlier. Quicken Premier H&B has many new ideas.
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