Quicken 2003 Premier Home & Business

Use Quicken 2003 Premier Home & Business to create customizable estimates and invoices, see at a glance where your business stands, and manage and simplify business taxes. You can also track accounts receivable and payable, and track vehicle mileage, jobs, and projects.

Quicken 2003 Premier Home & Business also includes everything in Quicken 2003 Premier to help you optimize your personal finances. Enjoy intelligent and tax-smart investing insights, new Schedule A, B, and D reports, and an Investor's Reference Guide with step-by-step tutorials. Use Buy/Sell Preview to view your estimated proceeds and potential capital gains. In addition, the Schedule Updates feature tells Quicken when to go online and download your data, so your information will be up-to-date when you open the program. Quicken's guided setup suggests what to set up and track in Quicken based on your goals. A fresh, more intuitive design provides faster access to your accounts, as well as the features people use most.

This NEW version of Quicken Home & Business is a great upgrade and builds upon a solid history. Quicken has long been the # 1 rated and # 1 best-selling finance software for a good reason. It's the fastest, easiest way to do finances.

I love it! This new version features a more intuitive organization, lets you automatically schedule your financial transactions to be downloaded (so you don't have to waste time when you start quicken), has better investing and tax modules, and is just generally EVEN EASIER and FASTER to use.

I run a small consulting business and Quicken Home & Business is perfect... I don't need all the full power of QuickBooks.

For the user who asked about multi-user, sounds as though you should get QuickBooks, which is Intuit's real easy-to-use BUSINESS software. Quicken is really only meant for the personal finances, i.e., Schedule C stuff is fine and it does invoices and job tracking for the independent consultant or contractor, but it's not meant to run a whole business with multiple employees -- get QuickBooks for that.

In all, this is a great product whether you are new to Quicken or looking to upgrade! I highly recommend it!!


Splendid piece of software   May 2, 2003
3 out of 7 found this review helpful

I am a money convert. I switched to quicken and have never looked back. I just love the new Home and Business version with its business capabilities. You can manage bills accounts receivable etc with all the power a small one-man business needs at a very reasonable price. The user interface is very friendly and logical. I find that it fits previous versions handily so the learning curve is minimal. Buy this product!!!


Great new feature...   November 15, 2002
2 out of 8 found this review helpful

The best part of 2003 Premier is that you can schedule it to download your info from your bank and cc companies. This is great because my bank charges if I download my info more than 8 times a month. This feature saves me $.


great software to keep track of finances   September 5, 2002
17 out of 20 found this review helpful

I'm running Windows XP Professional with all the proper updates on all of my programs, including windows. I have had no problems with Quicken Home & Business so far but rather have been enjoying it's new features. I particularly like the option of having account totals next to the account "tabs" for quick view to plug the info into my spreadsheets. The whole program works better at downloading and is just all around easier to use than the former version. I do, however, have two gripes with Quicken. One is the way they turned their entire payroll program into a service, and without that service, you lose all access to the payroll software. My other gripe with them is the fact that none of their Quicken software is multi-user capable.
To get multi-user capability, one must purchace their expensive and complex Quickbooks Pro or Premier. I can think of how many families could be advantaged by multi-user capable simple Quicken software. This would allow different members of the household to access the same files at the same time from different computers rather then everyone being required to use the same computer for all financial record keeping. Come-on Quicken, get with it! I thought that your products would be multi-user capable by now!


Useful, but packed full of features   September 9, 2002
Laurence Millard (Phoenix, AZ)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

A lot about this program is great -- the set-up was simple and it took very little time and input for me to get up to snuff. I also appreciate the graphing of important information so I can glance at a chart and see the info I need, rather than study columns of numbers (which you can if that's what you want to do). And downloading info from my bank is *really* useful.

But there's a LOT of features. In fact, there's so many, it's distracting. I maybe use 40% of the program, which makes me think I ought to have purchased a lesser version. Still, I'm happy with it overall.