babysparkler Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 (edited) What software do you prefer for home finances? Why do you like it? Edited October 15, 2009 by babysparkler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deidre in GA Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 i've used Quicken for over 15 years now. it does what i need it to do. i use Quickbooks for my business because it can track inventory. Quickbooks for family finances would be serious overkill and overly complicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 i've used Quicken for over 15 years now. it does what i need it to do. i use Quickbooks for my business because it can track inventory. Quickbooks for family finances would be serious overkill and overly complicated. That is what I was thinking too... we own Quickbooks Pro from my business that I closed down earlier this year. Dh mentioned using it, but it seems like overkill to me... but it would be free... I'm thinking something we will be happier with in the long term will be something that "fits" a family better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allearia Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I have both Quicken and Quickbooks, we got Quickbooks to keep track of business expenses for a business we no longer have and we prefer Quicken for family finances. It is great. I love being able to download statements and have them imported into Quicken. It is not so important now, but just last month I went and imported from all our accounts all the information since January. I love putting in the due dates of all our bills and income, setting them up to recur every month, and seeing a graph of our bank account balance every day of every month. I have not used Microsoft Money, so I can't comment on its differences from Quicken. I posted the other day about this other Excel spreadsheet I downloaded to do debt reduction planning, which I haven't gotten Quicken to do what I want yet. Basically to plan and see results from the Dave Ramsey Snowball method. This is free and fairly quick to do: http://www.vertex42.com/Calculators/...alculator.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica in OR Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Linux-based family here, so we use the free software Gnucash. I like its flexibility in setting up accounts/sub-accounts. Erica in OR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Many years ago, I tried a promo version of Microsoft Money. I likely didn't give it enough of a try, but I've always found Quicken easy to use. I use the deluxe version so I can track investments as well. I can even track allocated funds within my chequing account. Punks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELaurie Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 That is all. :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I was a diehard MS Money user from 1996-2005, but it seemed that the last few years I used it things would freeze up when trying to back up my file and then when you would reboot all the files were corrupt and it would say we had huge amounts of money in our accounts (wouldn't it be nice if that were true) In 2005 I got a free trial of quicken and have used it since. I'll never go back to Money. I've never had a crash with Quicken and it does everything I need with ease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 I can even track allocated funds within my chequing account. Punks oooohhh... I like that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKDmom Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 I posted the other day about this other Excel spreadsheet I downloaded to do debt reduction planning, which I haven't gotten Quicken to do what I want yet. Basically to plan and see results from the Dave Ramsey Snowball method. If this is what I think it is (the link didn't work for me), Quicken does have it. I have Quicken deluxe 2008, and the Debt Reduction Planner does the snowball method and allows you to choose which debts to pay off first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 I HATE Quicken. That is all. :banghead: Please tell me why... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 I was a diehard MS Money user from 1996-2005, but it seemed that the last few years I used it things would freeze up when trying to back up my file and then when you would reboot all the files were corrupt and it would say we had huge amounts of money in our accounts (wouldn't it be nice if that were true) In 2005 I got a free trial of quicken and have used it since. I'll never go back to Money. I've never had a crash with Quicken and it does everything I need with ease. Were you able to transfer anything over, or did you just start from scratch in 2006? We are currently using MS Money and were wondering about this... Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mims Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 Do a search for Ace Money. It is free for the basic version. It works very simply and straight forward. Quite intuitive. You have to pay for the advanced version if you want to keep track of more than one account (I think it is still inexpensive). It has a bunch of reports you can print out and has some of the real nice features that most people would want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cindie2dds Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Mint.com It's free and I use it for my checkbook register. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMom2One Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 It's called MoneyDance, and it has everything I could possibly want or need. Best of all, it was free. I used Quicken for years, and this has many of the same features. Blessings, Lucinda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Dh does the finanaces with Microsoft Money, he doesn't like Quicken as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Were you able to transfer anything over, or did you just start from scratch in 2006? We are currently using MS Money and were wondering about this... Thanks! I just read in a CNET article that Microsoft is no longer going to produce MS Money. Here's a link to tranferring MS Money data... http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/transfer-from-microsoft-money.jsp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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