Something that lets you track expenses and things like that? What about excel, i have that but don’t think it really helps me. How is quicken different than excel. What other programs should I look at.
Quicken seems to go for about $15 on ebay so maybe I can just buy it there but I am still interested in other programs that do the same thing.
I can send you a copy of my own personally-generated spreadsheets I use on a bi-weekly basis, if you want. . .
Just send me an e-mail, and I’ll shoot it over to you. It may help, it may not.
Tripler
I’ve used it for five years. And I over allocate, and always have money left at the end of the check.
Alright, I sent an email. Thanks.
Done. Check yours!
Tripler
I sent you my spreadsheet.
I’m a bit late but I have found Acemoney to be very good and cheap. US$30 for a lifetime license of a robust and efficient product, with responsive customer support. Free trial, too (I think unlimited?) Beats hell out of Quicken, and I slogged through 4 versions of that in 6 years.
Whether it beats Tripler’s custom sheets or not is up to you…
Nevermind, I got a cheap copy of quicken from a friend. Now how the hell do I use it?
In my experience, Intuit has made Quicken more and more difficult to use over the years. (I installed an old DOS copy we had lying around once just to see if I was right.) I suggest running any tutorials and looking at any help files provided.
What are you using it for? Small business? Personal use? There’s an open source project called the Open For Business Project that might have what you need. It provides a bunch of different apps like accounting software, e-commerce, order management, etc. I’ve downloaded it, but haven’t installed it yet. It looks kind of technical, but I’m looking forward to playing with it.
I’ve been using Quicken for several years now. I’ve been able to figure out how to do basic things, like downloading my online banking statements and categorizing each purchase, but that’s about it. It’s about the most user unfriendly piece of crap I’ve ever used – things which should be simple are ridiculously complicated/impossible. I’d love a decent replacement.
As an aside, I got a free copy of Microsoft Money with my tax software. It’s not much better, as far as I can tell, so I just stuck with Quicken, since at least I can do the basics with it.
I recently migrated from Quicken to Moneydance, myself. My needs are very modest, so I haven’t tried the more advanced features, but it imported my QIF files without a hiccup and has been hassle-free. And since it’s in Java, you don’t have to worry about platform compatibility issues.