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Accounting Software Packages - Home Use

A number of years ago there were at least 2 products on the market for households to track their expenditure - Quicken & Microsoft Money. Both products cost around £30-£40 (I think) and some PC manufactures even rolled them into the bundled software. I cannot find either on the web, although copies can be bought through eBay and only seem to run on pre-Vista operating systems. I think that there is a new Microsoft Money version available only to the USA market (even exludes Canada), but it is not on general sale world-wide.

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced, simple to use software package that can be used to track household accounts (bank transactions, credit-cards, mortgage payments, building society accounts & etc)?

If I ordered the USA version of Microsoft Money could I run it here in the UK?
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  • Don't bother with the american versions of quicken or money here, they won't work properly. I've tried both of them.
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  • I have been using Quicken 2004 until recently, and it still works ok apart from online updates such as stock prices.
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  • I use Money Manager ex, which is free, opensource & cross platform. I manage all accounts etc on it. You can install it or run it as an executable file (the data is stored in another file). See http://www.codelathe.com/mmex
  • jonnyd281
    jonnyd281 Posts: 569 Forumite
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    GNUCash is free I quite like it and it is also open source.
  • central
    central Posts: 202 Forumite
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    Moneydance is cross platform, I recommend it.
  • billbob
    billbob Posts: 71 Forumite
    I am not a big fan of Tesco but they do offer an accounting package which is basically MoneyDance with their branding all over it. I think it costs £10. I tried it, but found it was easier just to use a spreadsheet.
  • jonnyd281 wrote: »
    GNUCash is free I quite like it and it is also open source.

    Another vote here for GNUCash (http://www.gnucash.org). Simple to install on Windows and also available for Linux and Mac... and it's free.
  • Are there any packages that can do automated events, so if I set it up to know the date and tell it that on the 1st of every month I pay so much out, or transfer this much to another of my accounts, it will just do it and keep running balances? Or is that asking a bit much? :p
    Mother, wife, scientist, analyst.
  • I too am looking for an accounts package to manage home finances. At the moment, I am still using Quicken 2000. With some technical help, I managed to load it onto Vista!

    I have just tried Quick Book Pro 2008 from the same company (Intuit). It is awful and I am returning it. It cannot cope with direct debits and standing orders. There is a system but it is unwieldy to say the least and relies on using a 'write a cheque' facility, followed by 'memorise transaction'.

    I will investigate the recommendations here with thanks to those who posted them.

    Pollie
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