- Quicken Deluxe 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings
- Shows where you’re spending and helps you see where to save, with more accurate auto-categorization
- Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
- Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
- An easier, faster, more streamlined experience than previous versions; updates faster than ever
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Set goals and save more. Organizes all your accounts in one place. Automatically categorizes expenses so you can see where you’re spending and where to save. Helps you create a budget and tracks your progress against it. Alerts you to upcoming bills.Amazon.com Product Description
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#1 by BillArf on October 9th, 2010
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After weeks of my working with Quicken Deluxe 2011 as a beta tester, I can tell you that Quicken Deluxe 2011 is lets say a very big hit with me! Quicken 2011 has some refinements and additions that make it a very nice upgrade for current Quicken users as well as a terrific offering for those first time buyers. Here are a few of my favorite Quicken 2011 additions: “All transaction Register”, “Spending TAB”, “Transfer Detection” and “Customizable Register Columns” to name a few. Can also tell you Quicken 2011 One Step Update has a little different look and it is much faster in the time it takes to download. YES, Quicken 2011 gets a thumbs up by me!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Erik Behrendsen on October 9th, 2010
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There have been many products that have come and gone over the years in the personal finance arena. Only one has stood the test of time…Quicken. Having been a user of the very first version to the latest 2011 edition, I have to say they’ve made it easier, simpler, faster, and as always, extremely reliable. Over the past couple years I’ve also been invited to test the beta versions of this incredible software and as you may have read from some of my beta testing friends they found it to be the personal finance software of choice. But don’t take my word, or that of the other beta testers who have written reviews, try it for yourselves. If you don’t like it they’ll give you your money back…they have always honored this guarantee. I think you’ll like how easy it is to use and how quickly you can get a handle on all your financial affairs.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by D. Hawks on October 9th, 2010
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As a beta tester for Quicken 2011 I’ve had a couple months to really dive into the features of Quicken Deluxe 2011 and have been using it as my primary Personal Finance Software. The last version of Quicken I used was Quicken Deluxe 2008 after upgrading yearly since 2005. Prior to that I was a MS Money users since Money 97, upgrading every other version.
When I switched from Money to Quicken I felt that I gave up some nice user experiences and fluidity of the application. Money was getting a little too friendly with butterflies and cartoony icons. Quicken on the other hand felt very old school, pretty rigid and sorta ugly. But I felt it was more robust and learned to work in the clunkier UI.
Quicken 2011 has gone a long way toward improving the user experience while maintaining the robust feature set. The influence of the Mint team is immediate obvious on the default home page with a drill-down spending pie chart that is taken directly form the Mint site. This is a good feature for quickly seeing where your money has gone. The ability to click down into sub-categories and then payees is very nice. It’s also helpful to catch if you’ve miscategorized a transaction. Below that on the home screen is the upcoming bills/reminders so you have a clear view (after entering the reminders) of where your money is going to go. You can enter/skip this bills from that home page without going to another screen or register. At the bottom of the home page is a customizable spending tracker. I took advantage of the customization and removed this completely.
These home page features and their logical, easy links to Spending and Bills tabs lay out a good workflow for managing your day-to-day finances. Unfortunately, as you move further across the tabs you get to the Planning tab with the Spending Planner, Lifetime Planner and Tax Center. The latter two don’t appear to have been touched since the 2008 versions but the Spending Planner is promoted from the My Savings Plan to front and center for planning purposes. I cannot figure out how this is supposed to work and be better than the budget tool in Quicken. And many beta testers had this same experience. The Spending Planner really falls short of being useful and I ignore it completely. Intuit could really benefit its users by including some video tutorials about how this feature is supposed to work and the philosophy behind it (the Help files are as cryptic as the feature). Ultimately, I would prefer that Quicken have it’s budget feature better integrated to the Planning tab and not contained in a separate modal box. The budget tool appears to not have been updated since I started using Quicken in 2005 – and it is really one of the key tools I use consistently.
Overall, the at-a-glance and easy drill down of the home page, Spending and Bills tab make for a good upgrade from downlevel versions. If you are using Quicken 2010 you may not see real compelling need to upgrade, but for 2008 and earlier users, this is an upgrade you should really consider.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by JAMES OGLE on October 9th, 2010
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I simply cannot imagine managing my finances without Quicken. I’ve used the program since it was DOS only, strayed once about 10 years ago, and quickly came running back. The program keeps getting better with nearly every version, and the 2011 product has some nice improvements. What I like best about Quicken is the ability to choose features to use as you desire, and go back and forth with it. I have some bank accounts that I let automatically download – others, I prefer to enter the checks and deposits by hand. This product has been around a long, long, time and they have done an excellent job or listening to Beta testers. It just seems that every time I find myself wishing Quicken would do something else – the feature ends up in the newer versions. You will not go wrong with this product.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Neville G. Comrie on October 9th, 2010
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This product by far and wide a superb product. I literally ran this program into the ground and it bounced back as well it should. The interface is clean and the learning curve is small. As soon as the program begins you will notice how quick it opens and goes to wehere you want it to. An excellent financial program to help you track personal and businees expenses. No comparison to the other programs out there.
Rating: 5 / 5