Am I alone in feeling the Quicken 2004 Premier Home and Business mileage tracker is quite an unfinished feature? I've got several constructive gripes about it that I'm wondering whether they've been fixed in the latest versions. Anyone with quickbooks experience, I'd be interested in whether that program has any improvements in this tracking.
Mileage tracker gripes:
1) The Help promises import of mileage into Turbotax, but I seemed to miss where that could happen this year? 2) I also need to separate mileage deductions for my two businesses anyway, and that mileage tracker doesn't even spit out a report that can be subtotaled by Trip Type unless I've missed something? I can sort the list by Trip Type using Customize, but when it prints, there aren't any useful subtotals. With how much Quicken runs my life, I get bitter if I to have to touch an adding machine to make a calculation! 3) If you put in either the start or finish odometer reading in and the miles travelled boy wouldn't it be nice if it would just do the math for ya to get the other number like Quicken does in stock transactions? 4) Why doesn't it pull up the miles travelled for ya for repeat trips to the same destination?! 5) Wouldn't it be nice if you could create an invoice for a client's work and be able to put your mileage travelled for that project in that same form to track it? Put in destination and home addresses to have a mileage pulled for ya? Have that stored with a notion of "Clients" so when you pulled that client up for the next invoice, mileage would be auto populated with a check box indicating whether this job required mileage?Intuit are ya listening?
On a more constructive note, any Q2005 users able to say if the new version addresses any of these?
Best Regards,