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List Price: $99.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 1132
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home & Business
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MPN: 404146
UPC: 028287017214
EAN: 0028287017337
ASIN: B000U0AEE2
Release Date: September 9, 2007
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 eBay Sellers Alert: As of 12/31/07, PayPal Downloads Don't Work October 2, 2007
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
UPDATE 5/15/08: PayPal downloads still do not work consistently. I've been unable to download any PayPal transactions for over 2 weeks, and all the Quicken web site says is they're working on a fix which should be available shortly. I've had this product for well over 6 months, and PayPal downloads haven't worked with any regularity for the entire time. I hardly think 6 months qualifies as "shortly". Updates from other financial institutions also only work sporadically, though they are a bit more consistent than PayPal. This product simply doesn't do all it's advertised to do, and the company should be ashamed of themselves for misrepresenting its functionality.
UPDATE 12/31/07: In my first review (below), I stated that I had decided against upgrading due to the inability to download itemized PayPal transaction fees. I later changed my mind because I decided I could at least get my general PayPal data into Quicken and use PayPal's own reporting to get an itemization of fees. The PayPal downloads initially seemed to work fine, but now I'm rarely able to import any new transactions. Sometimes, the program will tell you the account update was successful even though no new transactions were imported. Other times, the program claims there's a Quicken server outage.
The last time I was able to import any new transactions was 12/27/07. The Quicken support technician I chatted with insisted I must have a corrupted file. Ironically, creating an entirely new Quicken file and PayPal account only resulted in the same problems. Quicken now acknowledges there's an issue on their support site, but there's no information on when a fix will be available.
If you're an eBay seller hoping this is the answer to your PayPal accounting needs, I'm afraid you're in for a big disappointment. At this point, I wouldn't waste my money on an upgrade.
I'm an eBay PowerSeller, and I currently use the 2006 version of Quicken Home and Business. I was excited to see that the 2008 version adds the capability to import PayPal transactions, but my enthusiasm was quickly dampened after I visited the Quicken support site and found the following statement:
"When PayPal transactions are downloaded using One Step Update, the PayPal fee is not separated out and does not appear as a Split line. In prior versions of Quicken, you could import a QIF file, which updated the information. However, Quicken no longer supports the QIF file, and PayPal does not download the required information in the supported QFX format. You must edit the transaction and enter the Split manually."
So, if you're looking to keep track of how much you're paying PayPal in fees, you'll have to manually edit every single imported transaction, a process which was unnecessary with QIF imports. That doesn't sound like much of an upgrade to me. I've decided to stick with the 2006 version. I have my PayPal account set up as an Asset account, so I can still download my history files from PayPal with the split information intact since QIF imports still work with Asset accounts. It's not a perfect solution, but it's certainly preferable to manually updating every single transaction.
Does Intuit really expect us to pay $70-$80 for the privilege of making accounting chores more time-consuming and tedious?
 Quicken Online Banking September 28, 2007
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've been succeassfully using Quicken for over 10 years and want to upgrade to 2008, but the online banking function recently scared me. I use online banking and bill-pay all the time without problems. Recently my grown daughter used my laptop to access her own separate savings account in another institution. Her account was not listed in my Quicken accounts, and she has never used Quicken. After she logged off I opened Quicken to do some banking and was shocked to see my daughter's savings account integrated into my accounts and included in my assets! There was even a full register generated .showing all of her transactions! This was quite a surprise. Her bank account is in Italy (on a US Naval base) and mine are in a different bank in California. I tried to delete her account from Quicken but couldn't. I called Quicken customer service which is headquartered in New Delhi, India, and spoke to a young woman capable of only broken English. She fixed the problem, thankfully, but charged me $[...] to do it! I had to provide proof of identity to this person, including name, address, SS#, etc. Outrageous! I'm a subscriber of [...] and recommend this service to anyone fearful of identity theft or using online banking and bill-pay. I'll still buy Quicken 2008 . . . but not without taking precautions.
 Been using Quicken for 10 years September 26, 2007
8 out of 28 found this review helpful
This is the first time I've ever responded and posted a review on Amazon. I use the Home and Business version and never in the over ten years I've been using Quicken including my current version of 2006. It's always been right to the penny with the balance in the bank account.
As far as the file corruption, to prevent this, a smart user should always backup his files on a regular basis. Quicken always prompts me on a regular basis to backup my files.
I generally upgrade my version about every two years, so I have 2008 in my wishlist to purchase in the very near future.
So, I can not agree with anything the previous viewer had to say about Quicken.
 If you're considering jumping into Quicken September 14, 2007
149 out of 173 found this review helpful
You should ask yourself - "how can a piece of software be capable of generating so much hostility from its user base?" If you can't think up a good answer, go ahead and install Quicken, and you'll have an answer before long.
Some of my favorite quirks from Quicken 2006 & 2007 that I'm glad to see survived the upgrade to Quicken 2008:
Basic arithmetic errors: sometimes, if you edit transactions in the register, every subsequent transaction will get confused about the running total (e.g., change a $10 debit to a $20 debit, and instead of changing the running total by $10, watch in delight and amazement as the running total leaps by thousands, literally thousands, of dollars).
Basic reporting errors: go ahead and open the category list, and click the (very unintuitive) button to generate a report for the category _DivInc. If, like me, you have several years of investment transactions, you're sure to have dividend income, but Quicken will tell you "no transactions for this category." Funny, if you type _DivInc into the global search window, it will bring up all those transactions the report couldn't locate.
File corruption: sometimes, I like to imagine Quicken's routines as a bunch of angry little gnomes running around the traces of my processor and through the registers of my memory. This is because, every so often, the gnomes demand a sacrifice, and offer up burnt offerings of your data integrity to their terrible god of woe. I can't otherwise imagine how downloading QFX data from Hewitt Associates confused Quicken so - in the online center, it shows "number of outstanding transactions: -65,536" Yep, negative 2 to the 16th power of transactions outstanding.
Probably the worst part about Quicken, however, is trying to free your data. If you've got any kind of complicated financial picture (i.e, if you're over 25 years old), you won't be able to free yourself from Quicken's grasp, since the only way to get data out of the program is in QIF format, one measly account at a time. Funny, they don't support _importing_ QIFs, claiming, and I quote, "QIF technology is over 10 years old and was designed for technical support purposes . . . QIF Data Import requires many steps to download, is a poor customer experience and can lead to duplicate transactions and errors." That old technology is good enough for you should you dare to _export_ data from Quicken, however. They're going to make darn sure that you have a "poor customer experience" and suffer from "duplicate transactions and errors" if you try to take your data anywhere else.
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