(That wouldn't happen until October of 2004.) I was still maxing out my credit cards, still living paycheck to paycheck, and still wondering why I had suck rotten luck. My records go back to when I was married to Kris and we were living in the small town where I grew up.
That said, I have transactions in my Quicken datafile going back to 19 February 2004 - almost thirteen years ago! I used it to track my descent into debt during the 1990s, although those files are exiled to inaccessible 3-1/2 inch floppy disks. Quicken 2007įor years, my personal-finance tool of choice has been Quicken. Today I'll talk about Quicken.Īnd at the end of this article, I'll reveal how I've decided to track my money during 2017. Yesterday I compared Mint and Personal Capital. Rather than try every available app, I elected to take a look at four that seemed like good fits for me: Quicken, You Need a Budget, Personal Capital, and Mint.Įarlier this week, I reviewed my experience with You Need a Budget. Lately, however, there's been a boom in personal-finance tools.
In the olden days, there weren't many options. As I prepare to track my spending in 2017, I have to decide which tool to use.
Quicken includes online services that allow users to retrieve transactions from various providers – such as their bank or credit card company. Quicken has offered various editions, with varying prices – such as Basic which includes only those typical activities for someone with simple banking accounts, to Small Business for someone who also runs a business out of their home. The software includes financial planning activities that, historically, people may have done on paper – recording banking transactions, planning a budget and measuring progress against it, tracking investments and their prices and performance. The Quicken name typically refers to the core product offering of personal financial management software. Quicken is a personal finance management tool developed by Quicken Inc.
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