What You Can Do with Quicken Online

Is Quicken Online for You?

• simple help with living within their means
• reminders to pay bills on time
• all checking, savings and credit card accounts together in one place
• to use reasonably priced, online software
• no hassles with account or software updates

If you need more advanced features like investment tracking or tax planning, check out Quicken Desktop. For a mobile solution, use Pocket Quicken for Windows Mobile SmartPhones, Pocket PCs or Palm OS devices (syncs with Quicken desktop software).

• Windows, Mac or Linux platforms use Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox browsers to run Quicken Online.
• Quicken Online is also iPhone compatible, and sends bill payment reminders to a cell phone or email.
• View bills, spending details, account balances and transactions on any computer or device that can use the Web where ever there is an Internet connection.
• View a simple analysis of your spending habits with pie chart graphs that represent spending categories, and drill down to transactions from graphs.
• Transactions for accounts in Quicken Online automatically download each night, with transactions being automatically categorized.
• Connects to over 5,000 financial institutions.
• Fast, easy set up.

Quicken Online automatically categorizes transactions and chooses payee names for transactions. Edit categories or payees in transactions and Quicken Online will remember your preferences from then-on.

Setting up Quicken Online is straight forward. Select your financial institution and enter the information required to log in to an account. Quicken Online then automatically populates the account with in 90 days worth of transactions.

• Split transactions.
• Data exports to Quicken desktop. Quicken Online customers may need to migrate to the more robust features in Quicken some day.
• Online bill payment.
• TurboTax software integration.

• SSL and 128 bit encryption renders data unreadable as it moves from financial institution to Quicken Online.
• Quicken Online does not store account numbers or social security numbers.
• Quicken Online do not use a third party service such as Yodlee to do the automatic account updates. The updates happen directly between Intuit and your financial institutions.

I think Quicken Online looks like a hit, and I suspect a lot of people who want a very simple and convenient yet elegant financial software solution will also be checking out Quicken Online.

Looking for more features? Consider Quicken Desktop Software.