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I use online banking now. I've never used MS Money or Quicken. Is it worth it? Does it really help to track your finances? I always just leave myself a $500 buffer in my account since I never balance my checkbook.

Has anyone used both money and quicken? Which is better?
 
I just started using Money now - works with Citibank well, but not Bank of America for some reason... I haven't used Quicken yet to compare, but Money seems alright.
 
I only used Microsoft Money, but I was impressed how it grabbed all my stock/mutual fund/savings info and I can flip through the tabs instead of logging into each account.

It wouldn't grab the latest data at times or just confused how it was working.. so I switched back over to online banking =P

I'll report back on Quicken once I receive it.
 
You sure the Staples rebate and the Intuit rebate aren't the same and that you can get both? They both expire on 11/30/05 so I'm thinking the Staples rebate is just their Easy Rebate way of doing the Intuit one. The $20 gift card is separate but I'd like to know about the other two as that would be a very good deal.

As for a comparison of Money and Quicken. The magazine reviews have had them neck and neck with Money besting Quicken for ease of use for a few years and overall last year--for the first time. But not worth switching from one to the other. This year they say Quicken is better so who knows. I've been using Quicken for 15 years and upgrade every year during the first week or two when it's released and the office supply stores have their free giveaways with it. I'm a hardcore, enter every cent into it user so I don't consider switching to Money as you lose too much in the conversion. For a new user I'd just recommend using whatever you can get for the best deal. The basic version of Money is always available free with Taxcut during the tax season so if you only need the basic version, that's a good deal.
 
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Spoofee said:
I only used Microsoft Money, but I was impressed how it grabbed all my stock/mutual fund/savings info and I can flip through the tabs instead of logging into each account.

It wouldn't grab the latest data at times or just confused how it was working.. so I switched back over to online banking =P

I'll report back on Quicken once I receive it.
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I have Quicken 2005. Overall the online updates to get stock and checking/Credit Card information is pretty good. I use it a lot to keep my account up to date and spot when I missed putting in an entry. I also keep my account balanced down to the penny.

The only grip I have about it is that the first time you go to do a bank account update for that session it downloads the whole list of participating vendors from Quicken. It wouldn't be to bad, but I'm on cable and it still takes a long while. While it's doing the transfer you can't do squat in quicken. You might as well switch over to another app and do something else. If I was on a modem I would hate to see what it would be like over a modem.

Kage_
 
Rebates

:( After purchasing the Quicken 2006 and starting to apply for the rebates, the 2 $20.00 rebates from Staples are the same. So you can not get the second rebate. It appears that there is only a total of $40.00 rebate. $20.00 from Staples and $20.00 from Intuit. If I am missing something I would appreciate a reply
 
One rebate appears to be an easy rebate through Staples. The 2nd rebate is through intuitrebates.com. Are both rebates sending you to the same site?

Kage_
 
Probably not...

lexington01 said:
Is it worth it? Does it really help to track your finances? I always just leave myself a $500 buffer in my account since I never balance my checkbook.
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If you never balance your checkbook, then it's probably not worth it. It's extremely useful for those of us who are more anal about tracking and verifying everything. It's also very useful for getting an overall view among many different accounts, if all your money isn't at one institution. If you're not in either of these situations (and don't want to be), it'd just be more work for nothing.
 
I have been using quicken since 1995 and using Quickbooks for my business accounts since 1999. Never used Money but could not speak highly enough about quicken. They also treat their customers very good. One of the first to recognize customer security and most banks (at least in my metropolitan area) allow you to download your statement and credit card bills so you can import them right into quicken.

Again, don't know about Money...
 
I used Quicken since 1995, but I only deal with their 1995 and 2002 basic versions. Can you help me to figure out if I should upgrade? Quicken makes you upgrade by discontinuing the online download after three years. Since I really like that feature (beat typing them by hand!), I was going to upgrade. but I heard there are a lot of bugs with Quicken 2005 from old transaction get erased to old transaction get repeated twice, etc, from epinion and amazon (I think). Do you users (t001z, madrenrc, Kage, StevenJ) find that problem with Quicken 2005 or Quicken 2006? Thanks!
 
I have used it since 1995 without any problems. I know of at least 6 relatives that use it also.
 
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