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You can save yourself virtually all of the data entry associated with a credit card account by enabling online access and downloading your credit card statement over the Internet. In almost all cases, you can download each month's statement from the credit card provider's web site. You can then reconcile the account without needing to refer to paper statements at all, and if you have signed up for online banking, you can send your credit card payments electronically. This is absolutely the best and easiest way to deal with your credit cards; I haven't written a paper check for a credit card payment in years. If you have credit cards that you use infrequently, it may not be worth even the minor trouble of setting them up in Quicken. For example, I have an old department store credit card that I rarely use. On those occasions when I do use it, I pay off the card's balance with a check or online payment from my checking account, and categorize that payment in the checking account register with the appropriate category for the purchase.
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