Want to know what is happening in your bank accounts, loans, credit cards, transfers between them (also known as payments), and even the cash in your wallet?
Keep track of your medical bills and insurance payments, or your rental properties. Find out how to identify how much you are spending each day so you can determine how much is necessary and redirect your spending.?
Create reports that show you where your money is going or to prepare your tax returns in a more timely manner? And then act on that information by cutting back your spending?
As a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who also trains and assists folks with QuickBooks and Quicken for the PC and the Mac, I am passing on this link from Intuit that they are now offering the Quicken Online edition for free.
As far as I know, you can use it in either the Windows or Mac operating systems. Also, as a point of full disclosure, you should know that I get $2.00 for each person who signs up and activates at least one account. Oh, boy, I can get lunch at Wendy's, smile or leave a more generous tip at one of Howard Howell's events. I believe Intuit makes their money off their ads on the site. I just though you should know.
I am passing that information along so you can gain control of and track your finances, pay down, get out of, or learn how to reduce your debt, or save money for your child's education or your grand kids? Perhaps you are reading this because you realized that you need to get your ducks in a row if you want to retire in X years?
Quicken Online allows you to keep track of most bank or credit union accounts as well as the cash in your wallet (you might also be able to use this cash feature to keep track of your gift cards), your income, spending, investments including your 401(k)s, or brokerage investment accounts such as IRAs, 401(b), 403(b), and 529s, mortgages, loans, credit cards, and other debt. It won't let you manage your assets (then again, with the declining housing market, do you really want to be reminded how much you paid for your house, glub, glub?) but hey, it's free.
And yes, I even use it myself.
You may be able to keep track of your new small business if you are willing to use two or more accounts (I recommend one for business and one for personal for the online version but keep in mind that you won't be able to import your business account into QuickBooks or Quicken later on if you decide to use that program).
Use Quicken Online and the Internet to set up and download your online banking information from over 5300 banks including PayPal and other financial institutions, credit card, investment including brokerages firms, and loan statements.
Assign those transactions to the proper financial category and tax line so you will be ready next year. You can also schedule your bills so you can avoid potential late fees (that's what automatic withdrawals are for) and set up some financial alerts.
The choice is yours.
You can gain control of your life and finances by clicking on this link and start using Quicken Online.
Or you can sit in the financial darkness.