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Get the tools you need for smarter, simpler investment planning and portfolio management. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, Quicken Premier 2008 helps you more efficiently optimize your investment portfolio, simplify taxes and grow your net worth. Quicken Premier 2008 has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe 2008.

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Get the tools you need for smarter, simpler investment planning and portfolio management. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, Quicken Premier helps you more efficiently optimize your investment portfolio, simplify taxes and grow your net worth.

Powerful investment tools help you define goals, set targets and optimize your investment portfolio.

Keep track of your complete financial portfolio with Quicken Premier's Net Worth Report.

The latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

View all your finances in one place.

Plan your future. Manage your investments. Watch your net worth grow.
Quicken Premier has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe--plus investment planning tools to help better manage your portfolio and help maximize your investments.

Get the most out of your investments
Powerful investment tools help you define goals, set targets and optimize your investment portfolio. Get alerts on your favorite stocks and funds to help you make informed investment decisions.

Instantly view your net worth
Keep track of your complete financial portfolio with Quicken Premier's Net Worth Report. Gain insight into your investments with performance charts and reports.

Access the latest asset allocation assistance
Our exclusive investing tools have been updated with the latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

Optimize your portfolio with tax efficient investments
Quicken's Tax Reports make it easy to evaluate and ensure your investments are as tax efficient as possible, helping you get the maximum tax benefits on April 15th.

View all your finances in one place
Like Quicken Deluxe, you can bring your online accounts--including banking, credit card, loan, 401(k), and investing accounts--together all in one place. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple web sites and remembering multiple passwords. With Quicken, you see it all in one place and you need just ONE password.(1) As with Quicken Deluxe, you can even include 529 contributions as part of your overall net worth.

See where you're spending your money
As with Quicken Deluxe, the new 'My Savings Plan' instantly shows a summary of your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Quickly understand what's left over each month for you to invest.

Pay your bills on time
Like Quicken Deluxe, a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses helps you schedule bills, set reminders and--most importantly--help avoid late fees. Easily pay bills right from within Quicken using Quicken Bill Pay or a third party bill pay service.(2)

Store important documents and statements in one place
As with Deluxe, not only can you bring your online data into Quicken Premier, you can scan in bank statements, checks and receipts to save time with tax prep. No more time wasted looking for receipts and statements--everything is stored in one central place.

Get free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken
(3) If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new software, free phone support is available for Quicken Premier 2008 through December 31, 2008.

What's New in 2008

Maximize your investments

• New! Get the latest asset allocation assistance
  Our exclusive investing tools have been updated with the latest asset allocation and investing guidelines to help you compare your portfolio to market averages, evaluate potential stock purchases and make smarter investment decisions.

Make saving as easy as spending

• New! See where you can find more to invest
  As with Quicken Deluxe, A new 'My Savings Plan' instantly shows a summary of your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. You can quickly see where you have room to spend or save more. Set flexible spending targets for regular expenses like entertainment and home expenses and then check your progress as you go through the month.
• Improved! More easily categorize your expenses
  As in Quicken Deluxe, a reorganized and redesigned menu makes it easier than ever to categorize your expenses. You can also add extra details to any expense to help jog your memory--i.e., the specific restaurant for a dining expense or the trip destination for an airline ticket.
• Improved! Smarter navigation makes it easier access the tools you need
  Like Quicken Deluxe, easier navigation makes it faster to get around and discover the features and tools that work best for you. Tabs let you quickly switch between Quicken's main pages. And a new interactive account bar makes it clear which of your accounts you are working with at any given moment.

Track everything in one place

• Improved! More connections to more financial institutions
  Quicken Premier 2008 connects you to over 5300 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal. It's easier than ever to truly bring your accounts together in one place.(1)
• New! Import your PayPal account transactions into Quicken
  Whether it's payments or income--or both--Quicken can now import your transaction data directly from PayPal.
• New! Track your 529 contributions
  Include 529 contributions as part of your overall net worth. See how you're progressing on your college savings goals.
• New! Get reminders of scheduled bills and transactions--without opening Quicken
  If you're using Windows Vista, our new Quicken Billminder Gadget can remind you of scheduled bills and transactions directly from your desktop.

(1) Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions and fees. More than 5,322 participating financial institutions as of 6/05/07.
(2) To pay bills in Quicken requires Quicken Bill Pay (sold separately) or a third party bill pay service (fees may apply).
(3) Email, Forums and Chat technical support provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Phone technical support provided Monday - Friday, 5:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT. Additional fees may apply.










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Customer Rating: - It ain't what it use to be
I have been using Quicken since it's inception. I do believe that it started out as "CheckSum". They were a great company and were only to glad to make you happy with their product. Then, each year, thay added more and more stuff. At first what they added was good, but now the program has become bloated. It is more than any of need or can address and each year thay add a little something and charge a very substantial fee to upgrade when it should only be a free update. They really don't give you much support, but they tell you that they will stop supporting previous versions so that you'll spring for the new version. Some of the so called improvements are very confusing and complicated like "save a place" in the investment portfolios. I have not yet figured out what to do with it even though I have tried everything. The latest version "2008" isn't worth the money. Stay with your older version. For my needs, it adds nothing but increased revenue for Intuit!

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Customer Rating: - Quicken premier 2008 desktop product
I did not care for this product. It is very limiting and not user friendly.

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Customer Rating: - The perfect tool!
Quicken 2008 Premier is exactly what I needed. Because I decided to cut up all of my credit cards and use cash or a debit card, it's important that I keep track of my spending so I don't run out of money before payday. Now I can just download information from my credit union directly into Quicken and I don't have to remember to save receipts. I love it!

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Customer Rating: - quicken
great product find nothing wrong. Use as much ram as you can you can should be ok