Manage Your Money with Online Sites Like Mint.com

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Published on 03-08-2010 09:27 PM

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We often focus on saving money through energy efficiency, home upgrades, cars, etc. But another equally important, and often easier measure is to just set, and effectively measure your budget.

For those of you that aren't familiar with sites likemint.com, I'll explain...

After setting up a free accounts, you don't what most of the time you should never ever do. You give mint.com all of your login/password information to all of your credit cards, bank accounts, investment accounts, etc. Don't worry, mint.com has big financial backing so your information should be safe (last year, Intuit, makers of Quicken announced that they will acquire mint.com). So by giving mint.com all of your login information, you allow the site to pull in all of your transaction history for credit cards, checking accounts, etc. As charges come through, Mint will automatically assign it a category. Usually it is pretty good but if it messes up, you can change the category.

In the meantime, you setup a budget. You tell Mint that you make $xxx per month (which will show up when Mint downloads your checking account transactions). Then you tell Mint how much you want to spend in each category. Rent/Mortgage, food, gas, utilities, etc. Then Mint can track your performance. You can even setup alerts so that you'll get an email when you start trending over budget in a certain category.

Then, with the information you get, you can easily change your habits before it's too late. After all, isn't it better to know that you only have $20 left on your "eating out" budget before you take the family out to a nice dinner?

Mint.com goes a step beyond by helping you find good credit card deals, auto insurance, checking/savings account deals, and high yielding CDs. I don't know how well they do with this. I honestly haven't tried it. But I guess if you're in the market for any of those services, it can't hurt to look.

Lastly, Mint now has an iPhone app so that you can track your spending all the time. No need to wait til you get home...Check your account balance at the cash register!

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mr.pete - 03-11-2010

Good find Adam. I will sign up and blog about it. I am curious to see how well it works.

I take it they remain free by up selling consumers or pay features, or by getting referrals for any sale they land to a 3rd party. From the article it seems they do offer a lot of neat features for free.

Thanks !!

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carlmeyster - 02-10-2011

Originally Posted by mr.pete

Good find Adam. I will sign up and blog about it. I am curious to see how well it works.

I take it they remain free by up selling consumers or pay features, or by getting referrals for any sale they land to a 3rd party. From the article it seems they do offer a lot of neat features for free.

Thanks !!

They obviously keep it free by giving the worst customer service ever.

Here's my personal thread
satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/rudest_customer_support_ever?utm_content=topic_lin k&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification]Rudest Customer Support Ever!

Go to their forums and check search the problems people are having. For any given problem there are thousands of people on the forum with the same problem. They all have the experience I have; we email with a problem with the site, we get an automated response, and we never hear from them again.

If thousands of people are posting with the same problem, I can only imagine the percentage of people using the site that have the same problems and don't post on the forum. There must be no one in the world who uses Mint.com and doesn't have significant problems.

I like TurboTax, but this year I'm probably going to switch to Quicken or another company that cares about it's customers.

Don't take my word for it, check out their forum at
satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics?page=1&sort=recently_active&style=topics]All topics for Mint.com

These pages are for ALL TOPICS, not just problems; but what you will finds is thousands of pages with 20 topics per page and virtually all of them are problems.

It's too bad, because it's a great idea for a site. I don't understand why a company the size of TurboTax can't take the time to do it right.

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