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Located in:New Products, Software, Financial Software
MODEL- MS-CD50765WI VENDOR- MICROSOFT CORPORATION
FEATURES- Money Plus Home & Business- Mini box
Money Plus Home & Business is a great choice if you:
- Operate a small business with fewer than five employees
- Run a home-based business
- Commingle your personal and small business finances
Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business makes managing home and
business finances fast, easy, and automatic with precise tools that
guide you through business taxes, inventory tracking, and online
payroll, so you can spend less time on finances and more time with
customers. Now with Insights -- smart tools to help you manage your
personal finances from your desktop.
Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business includes everything in Money
Plus Premium AND easy-to-use tools for invoicing, cash flow
management, tax planning, inventory management, and income and
expense categorization, enabling you to manage your business and
personal finances easily.
* Features for 2008 include:
- NEW! Insights, with alerts customized by you, keep you in the know
about the information you need most, even when Money isn't open!
- NEW! Bills Insights alert you when bills are overdue or due soon.
- NEW! Spending Insights keep on top of the spending you care about most
- NEW! Cash Flow Insights gives you a fast convenient view of your
spending and deposits, as well as your account balances.
- NEW! Attach links to important files such as check images or scanned
receipts right from transactions in the Money account register.
- NEW! Get the top 10 daily update from MSN Money StockScouter
- NEW! See Morningstar ratings in the popular MSN Money ETF center
- NEW! Rate favorite stocks and challenge Wall Street gurus yourself as
CAPS tracks their stock picks on MSN Money.
- NEW! Up to $900 value in offers for financial services from
Carbonite, Experian, Gainskeeper, H&R Block, Identity Sweep, The
Motley Fool, My Reward Board, PayScale, TheStreet.com, Stamps. and
PayCycle Payroll Service.
- ENHANCED background banking helps keep account information up-to-date
- Track US Markets, Treasury Markets, Currencies, Commodities and World
Markets with the NEW MSN Money Market Dashboard.
- Check out articles from the experts on MSN Money to help you improve
your finances in a particular area.
- Share your ideas and hear ideas from others on our spending message
boards.
- Look and feel for the Invoice Designer tool
- 14 professionally designed, customizable templates to easily create
professional-looking invoices.
- Download payroll transactions from PayCycle directly into Money.
* Get all the features of Money Plus Premium, and these additional features
to help you:
- Create, edit, email estimates and invoices
- Manage customers and inventory
- Track business finances and generate business reports/charts
- Manage payroll online
- Monitor accounts receivable
- Track Schedule C items
* Stay on top of your business.
List your products, services, inventory and pricing in the Products and
Services List and then effortlessly add them to invoices. It's easy to
price your services; track taxable items, reimbursable expenses and
costs; and add discounts to line items. The Products & Services List
integrates with reports, so you can see the value to your bottom line.
* Effortless invoicing.
Now it's easier than ever to create great-looking invoices and manage
the billing process. The Invoice Designer includes a new look and feel
that makes designing invoices easy.
* Design professional-looking invoices for sending by mail or e-mail.
With 14 new professionally designed customizable templates -- and even
more ideas on our Web site -- creating professional-looking invoices has
never been easier and with the Invoice Dropdown you can quickly find the
templates you're looking for.
* Payroll made easy.
Save time by downloading your payroll transactions directly into Money.
Payroll for Money by PayCycle calculates and prints paychecks,
automatically fills out tax forms (including W-2s), and reminds you of
tax deadlines.
* Get financial reports--fast!
Get the information you need quickly. Money Plus Home & Business can
automatically generate a wide variety of reports on all aspects of your
business. Easily create custom reports to show exactly what you need to
know.
* Simplify taxes.
Money Plus tracks taxable expenses automatically, links categories to
your Schedule C form and helps find hidden deductions. Money Plus Home &
Business automatically categorizes both business and personal
transactions, so you can track business expenses and be ready at tax
time.
* Manage accounts payable.
The Money Bill Calendar allows you to pay multiple bills from multiple
checking accounts all at once, making payment even easier. Schedule
payments in advance and quickly view upcoming bills. It's a great way to
organize your cash flow and take advantage of early-payment incentives.
* A complimentary value pack included free - A $900 Value.
Included with Money Plus Home & Business, enjoy this value pack of
offers for financial services to help you improve and optimize your
financial outlook.
* Bills, Cash Flow and Spending Insights.
Insights, with alerts customized by you, are smart new tools that keep
you in the know about the information you need most, right from your
desktop, even when Money isn t open. Bills Insights alert you when bills
are overdue or due soon. Cash Flow Insights gives you a fast convenient
view of your spending and deposits, as well as your account balances.
Spending Insights keep on top of the spending you care about most.
* Attach links to keep information handy right in Money.
By attaching links to receipts, rebates, and warranties, you can keep
tax, insurance and home inventory records readily available right in
Money. You can easily link to product or warranty information on a
manufacturer's website, so you won t have to worry about a misplaced
owner's guide.
* Get tips, tools, articles, and integration with MSN Money.
Check out articles from the experts on MSN Money related to a category
to help improve your financial picture. Share your ideas and hear from
others on the spending message boards.
REQUIREMENTS- Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later
operating system.
130 MB of available hard-disk space, plus an additional
200 MB while installing product updates.
CD-ROM drive.
Internet access (requires an internet service provider (ISP);
local and/or long-distance telephone toll charges may
apply).
Most online features require you to sign-in to Money with
your Windows Live ID (email and password).
Audio output capability (optional).
SVGA graphics card or compatible video graphics adapter; SVGA
color monitor with a minimum of 256 colors, capable of
displaying 800 600 resolution; 16-bit color recommended.
For PCs with Windows XP:
Pentium II 300-MHz or faster processor (or compatible).
128 MB of RAM.
For PCs with Windows Vista:
Pentium 1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) processor or 1-GHz
64-bit (x64) processor or faster (or compatible).
1 GB of RAM.
Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory.
Compatible version of Flash in order to play Help videos.
www.microsoft.com
FEATURES- Money Plus Home & Business- Mini box
Money Plus Home & Business is a great choice if you:
- Operate a small business with fewer than five employees
- Run a home-based business
- Commingle your personal and small business finances
Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business makes managing home and
business finances fast, easy, and automatic with precise tools that
guide you through business taxes, inventory tracking, and online
payroll, so you can spend less time on finances and more time with
customers. Now with Insights -- smart tools to help you manage your
personal finances from your desktop.
Microsoft Money Plus Home & Business includes everything in Money
Plus Premium AND easy-to-use tools for invoicing, cash flow
management, tax planning, inventory management, and income and
expense categorization, enabling you to manage your business and
personal finances easily.
* Features for 2008 include:
- NEW! Insights, with alerts customized by you, keep you in the know
about the information you need most, even when Money isn't open!
- NEW! Bills Insights alert you when bills are overdue or due soon.
- NEW! Spending Insights keep on top of the spending you care about most
- NEW! Cash Flow Insights gives you a fast convenient view of your
spending and deposits, as well as your account balances.
- NEW! Attach links to important files such as check images or scanned
receipts right from transactions in the Money account register.
- NEW! Get the top 10 daily update from MSN Money StockScouter
- NEW! See Morningstar ratings in the popular MSN Money ETF center
- NEW! Rate favorite stocks and challenge Wall Street gurus yourself as
CAPS tracks their stock picks on MSN Money.
- NEW! Up to $900 value in offers for financial services from
Carbonite, Experian, Gainskeeper, H&R Block, Identity Sweep, The
Motley Fool, My Reward Board, PayScale, TheStreet.com, Stamps. and
PayCycle Payroll Service.
- ENHANCED background banking helps keep account information up-to-date
- Track US Markets, Treasury Markets, Currencies, Commodities and World
Markets with the NEW MSN Money Market Dashboard.
- Check out articles from the experts on MSN Money to help you improve
your finances in a particular area.
- Share your ideas and hear ideas from others on our spending message
boards.
- Look and feel for the Invoice Designer tool
- 14 professionally designed, customizable templates to easily create
professional-looking invoices.
- Download payroll transactions from PayCycle directly into Money.
* Get all the features of Money Plus Premium, and these additional features
to help you:
- Create, edit, email estimates and invoices
- Manage customers and inventory
- Track business finances and generate business reports/charts
- Manage payroll online
- Monitor accounts receivable
- Track Schedule C items
* Stay on top of your business.
List your products, services, inventory and pricing in the Products and
Services List and then effortlessly add them to invoices. It's easy to
price your services; track taxable items, reimbursable expenses and
costs; and add discounts to line items. The Products & Services List
integrates with reports, so you can see the value to your bottom line.
* Effortless invoicing.
Now it's easier than ever to create great-looking invoices and manage
the billing process. The Invoice Designer includes a new look and feel
that makes designing invoices easy.
* Design professional-looking invoices for sending by mail or e-mail.
With 14 new professionally designed customizable templates -- and even
more ideas on our Web site -- creating professional-looking invoices has
never been easier and with the Invoice Dropdown you can quickly find the
templates you're looking for.
* Payroll made easy.
Save time by downloading your payroll transactions directly into Money.
Payroll for Money by PayCycle calculates and prints paychecks,
automatically fills out tax forms (including W-2s), and reminds you of
tax deadlines.
* Get financial reports--fast!
Get the information you need quickly. Money Plus Home & Business can
automatically generate a wide variety of reports on all aspects of your
business. Easily create custom reports to show exactly what you need to
know.
* Simplify taxes.
Money Plus tracks taxable expenses automatically, links categories to
your Schedule C form and helps find hidden deductions. Money Plus Home &
Business automatically categorizes both business and personal
transactions, so you can track business expenses and be ready at tax
time.
* Manage accounts payable.
The Money Bill Calendar allows you to pay multiple bills from multiple
checking accounts all at once, making payment even easier. Schedule
payments in advance and quickly view upcoming bills. It's a great way to
organize your cash flow and take advantage of early-payment incentives.
* A complimentary value pack included free - A $900 Value.
Included with Money Plus Home & Business, enjoy this value pack of
offers for financial services to help you improve and optimize your
financial outlook.
* Bills, Cash Flow and Spending Insights.
Insights, with alerts customized by you, are smart new tools that keep
you in the know about the information you need most, right from your
desktop, even when Money isn t open. Bills Insights alert you when bills
are overdue or due soon. Cash Flow Insights gives you a fast convenient
view of your spending and deposits, as well as your account balances.
Spending Insights keep on top of the spending you care about most.
* Attach links to keep information handy right in Money.
By attaching links to receipts, rebates, and warranties, you can keep
tax, insurance and home inventory records readily available right in
Money. You can easily link to product or warranty information on a
manufacturer's website, so you won t have to worry about a misplaced
owner's guide.
* Get tips, tools, articles, and integration with MSN Money.
Check out articles from the experts on MSN Money related to a category
to help improve your financial picture. Share your ideas and hear from
others on the spending message boards.
REQUIREMENTS- Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later
operating system.
130 MB of available hard-disk space, plus an additional
200 MB while installing product updates.
CD-ROM drive.
Internet access (requires an internet service provider (ISP);
local and/or long-distance telephone toll charges may
apply).
Most online features require you to sign-in to Money with
your Windows Live ID (email and password).
Audio output capability (optional).
SVGA graphics card or compatible video graphics adapter; SVGA
color monitor with a minimum of 256 colors, capable of
displaying 800 600 resolution; 16-bit color recommended.
For PCs with Windows XP:
Pentium II 300-MHz or faster processor (or compatible).
128 MB of RAM.
For PCs with Windows Vista:
Pentium 1 gigahertz (GHz) 32-bit (x86) processor or 1-GHz
64-bit (x64) processor or faster (or compatible).
1 GB of RAM.
Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory.
Compatible version of Flash in order to play Help videos.
www.microsoft.com
I went back to Quicken
By 12 year Quicken user
from Little Rock, AR on 9/8/2008
from Little Rock, AR on 9/8/2008
Pros:
Easy To Install
Cons:
No custom report function
Describe Yourself:
Quality Oriented
Primary use:
Business
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Comments about Microsoft Microsoft KGA-00003 Money +home&bus Win 32 Cd Mini (Microsoft KGA00003):
I thought that after a few years away from MS Money, that they would have improved the product. It imported my data from Quicken just fine, but that's where my opinion of MS Money changed.
I was stupefied that there is no way to create a custom report. There are a bazillion reports that require only a click to launch, but nowhere did I find a "Create report" feature, which was a deal killer. On top of that, it seems to me that with the multi-layered, and pervasive ways for the user to obtain services through MS Money partners, that the product should be nearly free. The program is practically an ad server. The user is also required to set up a Windows Live ID (used to be called Microsoft Passport) in order to use ANY of the online functions. You have to give them all of your major personal information: Name, address, DOB etc. The software's user agreement allows them to combine the data you give them with any and all other data they can gather about you. That too, was another serious deal breaker for me. An online service that I funnel my finances through just doesn't need to know that much about me.
Quicken isn't a whole lot better in this respect, but Quicken's product itself is MUCH better and much more customizable. I don't plan on using Quicken's online services for the same reason.
If you are starting from scratch, MS Money might not be bad, however, if you use Quicken now, you should stick with it. I am.