If you only need Deluxe, it's $45 shipped on Amazon. I should wait until it drops.. but sure would be nice to have mbna/ing auto download.. I'm still running 2004.

i am a quicken noob. i am still running 03 deluxe. should i look into upgrading to 07? what will it do for me that 03 will not? if i do upgrade will it keep all my info i already have in 03?

grahame said:dolmar said:I upgraded today have not installed it tho. I had Staples price match costco. So I piad $36.99+ tax for Quicken Home and Bussiness after easy rebate which i thought was more than fair. I can post an update once I install it later tonight.

Was that Staples B and M or Online? I will need to by online because there are no Staples in Houston. Would be $19 for the deluxe version after PM and $20 rebate.

I went to a store like stated 2 poste below the one you quoted. I had called te 800 number they agreed to do it also except 800 number said I would have to pay Costco Next day shipping charge which was $17.99 which killed the deal. So I then went to store to avoid the shipping charges.

This is a Huge YMMV. Today in Staples ad they have Quicken now with $20 rebate + $20 Giftcard. If you can get them price Match Costco price on Deluxe of $39.99 you basically get it for free after rebate and giftcare. Just have to pay the tax.

I called the manager from the store I bought it. He told me he would allow me to get the giftcard on my purchase. He said he would return it and resale it to me and still allow me to do the pricematch also.

So my cost for Quicken 2007 home and office will be $21.69 after tax once I get my free $20 gift card and my $20 rebate.

Installed the 2007 Premier version. Upgrade from 2006 was pretty easy and it converted my accounts fine. New start up interface is different but I can't say that it's massively more useful to me than it used to be. Not that it takes much time to go from that initial page as the layout for account bar is identical as it was in 2006 but it just looks like a different skin on familiar quicken. That's good too for keeping things in familiar territory.

Anyway, my main motivation for upgrading was access to way more financial institutions and ability to web connect directly to a few of them like ING, ED and MBNA. Maybe it's a YMMV thing but I was underwhelmed by the performance on those specific points.

As far as ING is concerned, in addition to the regular login/password info, it pops up a gazillion security questions (like 4 parts of your social, 2 parts of DOB, and a couple more security questions) and eventually didn't make the link with ING saying my info was incorrect. I logged on my ING account and double checked my info and it was exactly as I entered it in quicken so there's something not working right with connecting to ING. Maybe it's the new ING security features but it didn't work as I hoped it would.

Same thing from EmigrantDirect. In one-step update, it prompts me to enable the link to Emigrant Direct accounts. First there is the issue of the new ED account numbers which got changed as part of their own security changes and once again it asks for additional security questions but in the end couldn't connect and gave me error message (that one pointed to an error on quicken's servers! Not much I can do about errors there, huh?).

MBNA linking in one-step-update was easier (maybe since they don't have all the security question crap that ING and ED now have). It worked fine. However, it didn't pull information since MBNA still doesn't seem to provide anything but it's monthly statements for download. I guess it'll save me login on to MBNA manually to download the statements once a month but that's a fairly minor improvement overall since I still can't see transaction on a daily basis. Working but well below my expectations.

Overall, I was rather unimpressed with the new version. It still didn't have my credit union as listed institution. It obviously still had bugs with some of the connection to ING/ED, Fidelity Netbenefits, etc ... And when it did work, it was still a minimal improvement (MBNA). New interface is nice but nothing to write home about. We're not talking entertainment here. So based on my initial impressions of the improvement on actual features (rather than looks), it seems to me more like lipstick on a pig rather than a major upgrade.

Maybe it's me not doing the right thing to link ING, ED, etc .. but in hindsight, I'd probably wouldn't have upgraded if I knew the improvements were so minimal.

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As far as ING is concerned, in addition to the regular login/password info, it pops up a gazillion security questions (like 4 parts of your social, 2 parts of DOB, and a couple more security questions) and eventually didn't make the link with ING saying my info was incorrect. I logged on my ING account and double checked my info and it was exactly as I entered it in quicken so there's something not working right with connecting to ING. Maybe it's the new ING security features but it didn't work as I hoped it would.

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I had the same problem with ING, found out that while ING lets your answer be as long as want when you fill out the form, there is a 14 character max when you use the question to verify yourself. One of my questions was a year, I chose to use a random 20 character password instead...that caused a problem for me. I changed all my answers to 14 characters or less, and was able to direct connect with Quicken.

I responded to their mail offer which give me Quicken 2007 Premier for 59.99 (with free Quicken WillMaker Plus 2007 and Britanica Encyclopedia)

I had installed it and found following :

1. Change in GUI/Colors througout, which looks nice and fency.
2. Added some quick reports
3. In home, added inflow/outflow section
4. Lot of banks are added, but I could not get HSBCDirect account working, MBNA CC works.
5. No change in tax planner, whose UI is same for 10 years, and buggy.
6. One Step Update: Download transaction in background, which means you can work while it download.
7. Once you enter password for download transaction, you do not have to type it again if you try to download again in same session. So little loose security level!!!
8. Allow to rename the transaction name with more generic like "COSTCO New York" to "Costco", I think this will make easy to search transaction, if you care.
9. Allow you to add recipet, bill, your notes etc in the transaction, this one is nice.
10. There is no option to change the color on left bar, or I could not find it.

Net.Net. It may not worth if you are not using for tax planning.

sinik said:FWIW Quicken 2007 still has QIF crippled (can't import QIF or OFX files into any useful account).
Have you tried the workaround mentioned in this thread?

I upgraded shortly it became available.

Quicken 2007 seems to have some limited issues with banks with additional security questions - ING Direct and Emigrant Direct. ING Direct has been fixed, but I'm still getting frequent errors with Emigrant. With many banks moving to this, I would hope that Quicken stays on top of the changes and implements updates quickely.

They do not use any central source to aggregate your accounts. It appears that the Web Connect/One Step Updates actually goes to the FI's website in the background and downloads the Quicken Web Connect file. As a result, if your FI updates their website, you have to wait for Quicken to update (sometimes you have to deactive and reactivate the FI).

I'm also experiencing (and am not the only one) problems where multiple accounts classified differently, but downloaded in the same One Step username will reclassify these accounts. For example: I have a Checking & 2 Savings Accounts at a FI (setup as Cash Flow: Spending and Cash Flow: Savings). The savings accounts will "reclass" to the spending category when it downloads data.

Lastly, while it is not "published", Money 2007 CAN convert Quicken 2007 files. I am now running my files next to each other. The biggest problem when converting to Monday 2007 is that Money 2007 will have problems with any and all transfers between Cash Flow and Investing accounts (you will have to reclass them manually).

killercat85 said:If I dont plan on downloading data from the bank is there a reason to update from 2002 to the newer versions?

For me there wouldn't. It's a nicer interface but for basically off-line features, the enhanced reports and minor improvements here and there aren't worth the upgrade price.

If you don't care about those downloading features, I'd probably recommend buying last year's quicken version as it'll be slashed in price compared to the more recent version. That or wait for a deal with tax software around the end of 2006 beginning of 2007. You might get quicken for free bundled AR with tax software then.