Quicken XG

List Price : £59.99

Amazon Marketplace : £29.90

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Product Details

Platform : Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 95
Binding : CD-ROM
EAN : 5024801200532
Manufacturer : Intuit
Product Group : Software
Release Date : 2003-04-04

ASIN : B00008OIIX

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk review

Quicken XG is the 2003 makeover of Intuit's industry leading personal finance package. The pricing structure is new this time round though. Quicken XG buys you the program plus 12 months use of the various online services. After this you can opt to join one of several flexible monthly payment plans to continue using the online services.

Quicken XG allows you to take complete control of your finances. You can record and track all your personal and business accounts as well as investments. Data can be graphed and reported against for clear and helpful analysis. Intuit include several useful extras including a Home Inventory program, the ability to backup your data online for complete security and tools to assist with your end-of-year tax affairs.

If you are new to Quicken, you'll appreciate the new Guided Setup Wizard that walks you through the setting up of all your accounts. These can be current accounts, savings, credit cards or investments. You can also choose the types of tasks you intend doing with Quicken such as tracking investments, planning for retirement, controlling business finances and many more. Of course, you can always add new accounts or features later as your needs grow.

Quicken XG supports online banking and investment updating although the range of supported institutions is limited to those who specifically support Quicken. However, most of the big ones except Barclays are supported, with Barclays due soon. Usefully, you can set up automatic downloads to ensure Quicken XG always has the most up to date information.

As well as the use of Quicken XG itself and the online services for 12 months, you also get three free consultations with a Quicken financial expert who can help set the program up or advise on how to achieve certain goals.

With so much flexibility and power, it is good news that the built in help is particularly well designed. The information is presented in both general and task-specific formats, making it a breeze to get to the information you need.

Quicken XG provides a fresh new look for existing users as well as many improvements to its general functionality and tweaks to the analysis tools. New users will appreciate the Guided Setup Wizard which is a huge help when starting from scratch. --Iain Laskey

Manufacturer's Description

Take control of your finances in as little as 5 minutes with NEW Quicken XG! Quicken XG provides you with the fastest and easiest way to manage your money. Quicken XG offers all the same features as previous versions, plus a whole new level of service and great new benefits so that you can manage your personal or small business finances with even greater ease and accuracy.

Quicken's new Guided Setup walks you through your specific situation and helps you set up Quicken XG exactly how you want it. Personalise Quicken XG at any time based on your specific financial situation. Download your bank accounts, update stock, investment and unit trust prices, download foreign exchange rates and get UK investment news. Schedule Quicken XG to update automatically!

Customer Reviews

Save your money - stay away! (2004-04-17)

I picked up the wrong box at the local outlet store (Evaluation version rather than Full, and nothing on the box to explicitly tell you this!) Am glad I did now, I have saved wasting the total 60 quid.

I have used Quicken for 11 years now, and I can safely say this is the worst release ever! Graph functionality has been removed, the interface is counter-intuitive and clumsy, and "online banking interface" means diddly-squat!

Microsoft Money for me!!!!!! (2004-03-03)

Some words of warning; if you use Quicken 2001 or earlier, DO NOT upgrade to Quicken XG. Apart from the problems with registration, only being allowed to install the product on one PC, the features that obviously don't work and the non-exsistant support from Quicken themselves, this product also conflicts with any Norton firewall - Quicken will work, but your firewall won't any longer.

Forget it, use Money instead.

A question for Amazon: Why do I have to rate this product with at least one star on a scale of one to five? I would prefer to give it no stars.

Don't buy it! (2004-02-24)

I am returning to MS Money! Trying to get support from Intuit for this product is impossible. They just do not reply to any e-mail or to any "critical" articles posted on the user's forum. Beware also of the claims about which financial institutions will support thtis product in the future. I contacted Halifax who said they have no plans to support Quicken XG within their online banking product...

Frustrated with Quicken XG (2004-02-21)

Having used Quicken for several years through various upgrades,I feel this version is the worst yet. The registration is a nightmare if you have to reinstall for any reason.I returned to an old version, Quicken 2000 in desperation but even that is better than XG.I am using Microsoft Money 2004 now and find this is much better so will be sticking with it until Quicken get their act together and give a better product for their loyal customers.

Don't buy unless you never leave home (2004-02-21)

This version does NOT allow you to install on your laptop. Their helpful advice was 'uninstall from the PC and install on the laptop then do the opposite'.

To add insult to injuy they have changed their encryption so you cannot download fron NatWest (in my case) unless you leave your whole file with them for 2 WEEKS!

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