Comments on: Overview of Mint.com as a Money Management Tool

By: karl reed

karl reed — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:28:15 +0000

I really do not know about mint as I have been using manageME7 from the last 7 months but the above post lookf quite informative.

By: MintUser

MintUser — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:02:31 +0000

FYI, there has been a long thread on Mint forums about missing transaction since mid october to a long list of Credit Unions. Something is up and Mint.com is not being upfront with the issueor what is being done to resolve it. I have been using Mint for about 5 months and like it very much, but I belive that they only import 30 days of transactions, meaning after Nov 20th I will start having a gap in the transaction which will render the software much less useful for me.

By: MoneyNing

MoneyNing — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:16:39 +0000

Joseph: Why don’t you email them and get the accounts they don’t support activated within the system? I don’t know if it’s as easy as that but maybe you should try!

zach: I agree that other countries will have a tough time if they don’t have the web access features. Mint is incredibly simple (quite honestly the review pretty much covered all the features) and that’s what it’s great about it as it’s easy, unlike other complicated money management software.

CD Rates: Quicken is probably much better in terms of dealing with taxes. As far as I know, Mint doesn’t have anything related to taxes right now.

KatieMc: Cash is definitely a problem but I personally don’t use cash at all so I’m okay. Maybe they can get a suggestion box going and we can all pile our wish list on them

By: KatieMc

KatieMc — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:30:23 +0000

I tried a whole bunch of these about 6 weeks ago, and the one thing that stood out as a shortcoming of Mint was its inability to handle Cash. Since I’m in a cash business, I bailed and moved to Buxfer and Wesabe. I like Wesabe best, but they’re less than ideal with budgeting (monthly, fine…but my Travel budget, for example, is annual).

By: CD Rates

CD Rates — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:27:21 +0000

And maybe they listened to you…There is an orange sign-up link right next to the login link on the main page (I used your link above)

cd :O)

By: CD Rates

CD Rates — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:25:43 +0000

So how would you rank Mint as compared to Quicken?

I need to upgrade my Quicken. Quicken also has lots of good reports for dealing with Taxes.

By: zach

zach — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:15:50 +0000

I love mint! i have been using it for about 3 months now as my primarty money management. I also like wesabe a lot for the forums. As well with wesabe since you download your bank statements and upload them to wesabe, it is more secure and allows users from other parts of the world to join, and wesabe has 30 currencies available. Mint plans to go worldwide too, but the way the site accesses accounts they have some hoops to jump through first.

By: Joseph @ Debit versus Credit

Joseph @ Debit versus Credit — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:24:00 +0000

I have been using Mint lately myself and I’ve found it to be a pretty sweet free tool, but it does not offer access to all of my bank accounts either so that is a bit of a downfall.

However the tools it offers (and all for free at that) are really great! Good article!

By: MoneyNing

MoneyNing — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:55:26 +0000

tweedledee: Sorry to hear that. I don’t really know the situation but if a company say has 10 employees and need to stay with 6, they will find the 6 employees that offer the most value to the company and layoff the rest. Maybe it has to do with the choice of her company selection or industry that she’s working in? If you (or her) would like to talk, I’m always available.

By: tweedledee

tweedledee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:20:47 +0000

I am several posts behind in my comment, but your statement “Companies don’t fire good people” is hysterical to me. My sister is 45 and is a good person. She is a very hard working loyal employee. I would go so far as to call her a work-a-holic.
She has been “downsized” 4 times that I can think of.