Quicken or Microsoft Money?

pjrouse

Hi I have never used this type of software as I currently key in all my financial data manually into Excel.

I am considering getting either Quicken or MS Money for Xmas.

Has anyone experience of using either (or both) of these packages?

Do they offer anything extra over my current system?

I bank online with Smile and I dont think they support downloading statements or transactions directly into either of these applications yet so the manual input will remain. I just didnt know if they have good tools to forecast and things like that in?

All advice is welcome.

Thanks

Paul

Cymraeg_2

The Times Money Organiser
£10 from Staples and it does me fine .

Just another option you may not have considered.

Crown

can I recommend a little peice of software I recently found that does everything I want.

Its called Acemoney and can be found at:

http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/

This is a great peice of software and best of all its free if you only have one lot of accounts.

The unlimited version only costs about £15-16 thanks to the exchange rate at the moment.

It may not have all the extra features of Quicken or Money but as I say I havent had a problem since I started using it.

mm66

quicken by far the better one having used both for years

johnllew

I too have used Quicken for years - excellent program. I don't think that there is too much difference between Quicken & Money though and the latter is likely to be cheaper especially if bundled.

MarkyMarkD

What's the ongoing support like for Money, given MS's attitude to making things obsolete?

I am using Quicken 98 deluxe (Y2k fixed version) which they supplied free when Quicken 5 become Y2k compromised.

The online support/updates still seem to work and generally it works AOK.

Is that true for people who bought Money over 6 years ago?

westernpromise

Hi I have never used this type of software as I currently key in all my financial data manually into Excel.

I am considering getting either Quicken or MS Money for Xmas.

Has anyone experience of using either (or both) of these packages?

Do they offer anything extra over my current system?

I abandoned spreadsheets because they just got too labour intensive. I run multiple credit cards and was having trouble importing and predicting balances reliably.

I currently use MS Money 2004 and find it good, but have heard mixed reports about the 2005 version, which has just come out.

A cheapskate way forward would be to buy the old one. It's cheaper, does everything you'll need, and has been debugged,

There is also a very helpful newsgroup if you have questions http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.uk.money/threads?gvc=2

jonesMUFCforever

I have used both but much prefer Quicken. I use an old version which may be available for free if you use a site like tucows.com or similar.
Eric

greavo

Tried both when i first went on PC in 1995..

Still using quicken can't knock it at all and theres still a few things ime finding out about it now after nearly 10 years of usage.

IMHO quicken wins hands down


Greavo

dthyer

Just to answer MaryMarkD's question about old versions of MS Money: I'm still running Money 97, even after upgrading to a new PC with Windows XP, and I've had no problems.

DT

MarkyMarkD

Thanks for that, DT.