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Quicken is a personal finance
Personal finance

Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. It addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, personal budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events....
 management tool developed by Intuit, Inc.. Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh
Macintosh

File:Imac alu.pngMacintosh, commonly shortened to Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc....
 systems. An online version is also available. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier and Quicken Home & Business. Each version of Quicken also tends to have the release year in the product name, (eg. Quicken Basic 2008).






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Quicken is a personal finance
Personal finance

Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. It addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, personal budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events....
 management tool developed by Intuit, Inc.. Quicken runs on Windows and Macintosh
Macintosh

File:Imac alu.pngMacintosh, commonly shortened to Mac, is a brand name which covers several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc....
 systems. An online version is also available. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier and Quicken Home & Business. Each version of Quicken also tends to have the release year in the product name, (eg. Quicken Basic 2008). Other editions are listed below. Development of the UK version of Quicken was discontinued in January 2005.

Related products

The Quicken brand has been extended to other personal, or household areas, including healthcare. Quicken Health is a free online tool for health care consumers enrolled in participating health plans. The product will "allow members to manage and direct their health care finances, view and organize medical expenses, payments and service histories, and download and organize personal health claims data,". The Quicken Medical Expense Manager is a desktop software tool for managing healthcare paperwork, tracking claims and payments, and consolidating related information.

Quicken Kids & Money was a web-based program that aims to help parents teach five- to eight-year-old children how to earn, spend, save and share money. It is now discontinued.

Other products are aimed at home business and seem to fit in a space for a less formal business than would be using QuickBooks
QuickBooks

QuickBooks is a line of business accounting software developed and marketed by Intuit....
. Quicken Rental Property Manager is a desktop software tool for managing rental properties, tracking tenants, expenses, payments and producing tax reports.

Software as a service

Quicken Online is a free, hosted solution (see software as a service
Software as a Service

Software as a Service is a model of software deployment where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on demand. On demand licensing and use alleviates the customer's burden of equipping a device with every application....
) by Intuit. Quicken Online helps newly financially independent individuals meet their basic personal finance needs and make the most of what they have paycheck to paycheck. Intuit hosts all of the user's data, and provides patches and regularly upgrades the software automatically. Initially this was launched as a monthly paid subscription, but is now released as a free service.

Criticisms

  • Sunset policy
    Sunset provision

    In public policy, a sunset provision or sunset clause is a provision in a statute or regulation that terminates or repeals all or portions of the law after a specific date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend it....
     that stops online features from working after a certain amount of time.


See also

  • Comparison of accounting software
    Comparison of accounting software

    The following comparison of accounting software documents the various features and differences between different professional accounting software and personal finance packages....


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