Quicken

Avantages

You are able to setup Quicken to sync transactions with your various bank and financial institutions. If you have the skills and proper data entered, you are able to run reports with valuable information.

Inconvénients

Quicken isn't always user friendly. I'm an accountant who has worked with many financial software, so I can work my way through it, but it isn't always user friendly. I also do not love how Quicken treats transfers between accounts as income and expense.

Avantages

It makes it easy to keep track of expenses and bank accounts

Inconvénients

It can be buggy at times, e.g., downloading transactions into the wrong account.

Avantages

I've been using Quicken for years. I like having all my financial info in one place, I also like the online downloading of transactions.

Inconvénients

Bugs. There are a bunch and it takes forever for them to be fixed.

Avantages

It is extremely easy to use and has very simple and understandable reports

Inconvénients

It is only single entry accounting so it is limited

Avantages

Easy to use. Very simple to learn. User friendly. A lot of options.

Inconvénients

There’s really no down side to it. I have used Quicken for 15 years.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Quicken

Avantages

I like that it does what it is supposed to do and help you with your finances and taxes.

Inconvénients

It is not as easy as you think to setup and especially if you want to use it across different computers.

Avantages

Quicken allows me to track my income, expenses and net worth of my small business. This is great as tax time is no longer a dreaded event.

Inconvénients

Only con is that it is not mobile friendly. I would like to be able to just take a picture of a receipt on my phone and it upload into Quicken automatically.

Avantages

I love how user friendly it is, been using it at home for years, great at the office now too!!

Inconvénients

Nothing really, can't complain.it suits all our needs.

Avantages

What I like most is that I can sync to my bank account.

Inconvénients

I disliked the customer support and not available 24/7

Avantages

Has a lot of features for the average user

Inconvénients

Hard to integrate into the flow of my business

Avantages

For $80 Cdn / year this is a fantastic program for blended families with multiple sources of income and complicated expenditures that require organizing. As a lay financial planner, with a rental property and a second marriage, I have spent way too much time trying to organize the finances. What has taken me literally days to do on a spreadsheet has taken me 3 or 4 hours on Quicken. Monthly expenditures and small business management will likely take me 2 to 3 hours a month now, at most. Once you organize your Transaction Payees into Categories (a few hours the first time) you never need to do that step again! Spending charts / pie graphs are clear and 'quickly' ... you know where the money is going, almost to the moment. The program was super easy to show my wife how it works and unnecessary stressors have been eliminated.

Inconvénients

I say almost because transactions from the bank are not simultaneously dropped into your application. Even if you update the account (refresh) it can take time for the new transactions to show up. Apparently the web app doesn't have this issue but the downloaded desk top version does. For me, no issue, but for someone who requires immediate updates it might be a problem.

Avantages

Quicken does so much more than your standard budgeting and financial keeping. It has helped streamline our business and has been so efficient in our accounting needs

Inconvénients

it was definitley hard to use at first. it took some time and asking lots of questions to really understand it. customer support has been great though

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Web-based allows me to work off an iPad or iPhone instead of carrying my laptop around when I am on the road or abroad on vacation.

Inconvénients

There is little that I dislike about it.

Avantages

Pricing was convenient for a small business.

Inconvénients

Not easy to download credit card statements.

Avantages

Ease of use year after year makes the long term utility of this software amazing

Inconvénients

Expensive. The recent price hikes have made us reconsider.

Avantages

Quicken has a very user friendly platform that makes managing our accounting simple.

Inconvénients

I can't think of anything that we do not like.

Avantages

Quicken is better suited for personal use, but we have been using it for our company for over a decade and it does what we need.

Inconvénients

Payroll options are expensive, and not all the options are available.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Quicken

Avantages

It is a powerful accounting tool that can provide a visual overview of different accounts.

Inconvénients

We need to reconcile frequently; otherwise, we will make mistakes easily.

Avantages

Quicken is widley used, easily syncing to major banks and platforms. Big company with broad support.

Inconvénients

Some of the syncing and getring reports can be slightly confusing.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Quicken is easy to use and updating from a previous version went well.

Inconvénients

It drives me crazy that you can't sync information between computers. I'm no expert, but I can't see why you can't have information from the Quicken cloud update information on the computer.I use Quicken at work and at home. If I could just sync information that I added at home to my work computer and vice versa, it would be perfect.I don't know why this feature can't be added.

Avantages

Has alot of features and functionalities

Inconvénients

The barrier to learning was high for a small business

Avantages

Feasibility and easy to use and keep track of income and expenses.

Inconvénients

Sometimes I have issues with retrieving something; however, I believe it's user errors and I haven't taken the time to research.

Avantages

Quicken has a lot of perks that’ll help you budget well. The automatic features are nice in theory.

Inconvénients

Where do I start? First of all I can’t see anything. Everything is confusing. I don’t know where to start. It always says I’m in the red and gets mixed up. I need something dummy proof.

Avantages

Able to keep tax records weekly for my small business.

Inconvénients

Quicken arbitrarily changed the rules after purchasing this software. I have used this software for 8 years and purchased the program in 2016. After purchasing a new computer this week, and being unable to transfer my program to it, I was told I had to now pay for a yearly subscription of $60/year. Initially, I was given the option of purchase vs subscription and chose purchase. I now am told I have to pay for subscription yearly. If I had known this at the intial purchase time, I would have chosen another software or set up my own on excell. This is poor business practice by this company and I would never recommend them to anyone. I was never notified of any changes with my initial purchase. This would be considered malpractice by most other businesses. They should honor past agreements.

Avantages

Full and proven feature-rich with an easy user interface. A new user can ease into financial tracking at any level, building up for a full net worth reporting that increases with expanding use.

Inconvénients

This product will pay for itself with even initial basic use. I can't find any fault with it after over 20 years of use.