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Ads and pitches aren’t all that intrusive, but they aren’t always clearly labeled. Also, while is a free cloud service, advertising and targeted marketing offers pay the bills. Quicken Home & Business ($110), meanwhile, adds support for small business owners who want to track both personal and business finances in one program, while Quicken Rental Property Manager ($160) also provides features for landlords. Quicken Premier ($100), for instance, offers detailed portfolio examination tools for investors, where provides limited tools for reporting on the investment data it downloads, but only after plying you with brokerage service offers. The more expensive Quicken editions add features that doesn’t tackle in depth-or at all. This is to ensure that you get your current Quicken or QuickBooks accounts set up with the new connection. Quicken is also better than Mint for tracking investments and planning your retirement. Attention QuickBooks, Quicken and Mint Users. It's also better than Mint if you're a small business owner or are managing rental properties. But, keep in mind that Mint is a for-profit company and they have to make money somehow. Quicken has much more functionality and can grow with you over time.

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In addition, you can password protect your data files within Quicken for additional security. supports downloads from just about any financial account that’s available online. Quicken uses 256-bit encryption, SSL, as well as multiple firewalls to keep your data safe. To create a Mint account, you must sign up. Quicken Starter Edition supports downloads from checking, savings, and credit card accounts Quicken Deluxe adds support for downloads from loan accounts (this is new in 2013) and investment accounts. Unfortunately, there is no way to upload data into Mint, from Quicken or any other file, program or application.

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With the $40 Quicken Starter Edition (available only from online retailers, and not even shown in the product comparison page on Intuit’s web site) and the $70 Deluxe Edition, the choice between Quicken and boils largely down to whether you prefer to keep your financial data on your PC or online-and how much you’re willing to pay for the former.īoth products offer tools for categorizing expenditures and income, creating budgets, and sending e-mail or text messages to alert you when you overspend in a budget category, let your bank balances fall too low, or the like.

The difference between the two products varies greatly depending on which issue of Quicken you’re looking at.

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No matter which you choose, you’ll only realize its full benefits if you’re willing to put a bit of time and effort into monitoring and augmenting the automated data entry-and using all the program’s features. Both help with data entry by providing support for downloading transaction information from your accounts at literally thousands of financial institutions. Both the just-released Quicken 2013 (with editions ranging in price from $40 to $160) and the free cloud service (which replaced Quicken Online a few years ago) provide useful tools for tracking and planning your finances.

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