2008 Delux - Worth the upgrade?

Quicken is offering a $10.00 discount to upgrade to Q2008. I am currently using Q2007. The marketing pitch states that there are new and improved features. Any insights on the new release (pro or con) would be appreciated.

Thanks, Alan

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AlanW
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Two points:

  1. Although I haven't yet seen Quicken 2008, my experience is that each year the "new and improved features" are few and minor. Quicken has been around long enough that it is no longer possible for them to offer major improvements every year. So my personal practice is to buy a new version only every two or three years. I'm also running 2007, and expect to pass on 2008. But I might change my mind and get 2008 if there are good prices for bundles of it with Turbo Tax in the next month or so.

  1. Intuit's "discount" likely still leaves Intuit as among the

*most expensive* places to buy it. If you do decide to get it, you are almost certainly better off getting it someplace like Costco, or at one of the many web sites where it is sold more reasonably.
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Ken Blake

snipped-for-privacy@this.is.an.invalid.domain (Ken Blake) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

My plan is to wait 'til they stop allowing downloads of quotes and transactions on my current version.

[Although the spotty performance of the downloads recently makes me think they're rushing the date :-)]
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Bert Hyman

The only compelling new feature for me was the Paypal download. They could have easily back-ported that to Quicken07, but clearly they only offered it in 08 as a small carrot. I resent that approach, but that's another story. Other minor stuff that I noticed, when I return an item for a refund, I book it back to the expense category. Q07 showed it in cash flow as income, Q08 books it as a credit to expense, which I prefer. Otherwise, there is not much difference. I picked up 08 to make the move to H&B from Deluxe, due to some new business stuff at home that needed tracking. Apart from that need, I would have stayed with 07.

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Steve Larson

Does this actually work for you?

For me, it shows debits in foreign currencies as my own currency.

IOW: I buy something for $100 USD and it appears in my registry as $100 CAD. (I'm Canadien, eh!) The QFX(?) file is missing the conversion transactions. Funny thing is that I can download an OFX(?) file and thre conversion transactions are there.

This is a PayPal bug and not a Quicken bug though... at least from what I can tell.

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Calab

I first tried Q08 H/B via the 60 day trial. When I set up the PP download, I ended up getting a whole bunch of duplicated transactions when a payment was first sent, then cleared. Not sure if that has been fixed, but when I set it up with the non-trial version w/ SP5 yesterday, the download worked properly. I hazard to say that, like you said, it was more of a PP issue than a Q08 bug. I didn't have any issue with the currency, all worked properly as USD on US dollar purchases.

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Steve Larson

First off, never, ever assume that Intuit is giving you the best deal. More often than not, it is more expensive than getting it from a brick & mortar shop or an on-line vendor. Shop around. If you buy Turbo Tax

Having said that, I go 2008 and upgraded from 2007. To be honest, theres not a lot to motivate upgrading. There's a couple of "That's nice.", but no "Cool!"....

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Hank Arnold (MVP)

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