Comments on: Mint, A fresh perspective on your finances

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:12:30 +0000

I signed up for Mint a few months ago and it doesnt update fast and doesnt tell me correct data all the time and all of my accounts are with the same bank. Maybe its just me, but I dont see it as being a helpful tool at all.

By: Nisha

Nisha — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:28:37 +0000

Great post, thanks for the tip. I signed up for a Mint account yesterday and already love it.

By: Brandon Henak

Brandon Henak — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:19:23 +0000

I personally prefer Yodlee ( http://yodlee.com ) to Mint as Yodlee has more features and is actually the technology behind Mint. For more analysis see this post:

http://newlycorporate.com/2008/02/07/3-fast-and-easy-budgeting-methods/

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:11:51 +0000

I’d highly recommend people try Mint. I’ve been using it for a few months and I find it quite handy, especially for checking balances and recent purchases across a number of different accounts. You can check everything from one login.

They just added loan accounts to the service and added investments just a few weeks ago, so there is now a much more broad list of accounts which can be tracked.

Zak is correct that it becomes more accurate the less cash you use. They are working on providing the ability to split up purchases across different labels. So if you spent $100 at the grocery store on a card, but $40 was cash back you could manually split your labeling. I’ve never seen any kind of credit card statement that distinguished cash back in that kind of example, and that is the data Mint uses.

By: zak

zak — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:40:08 +0000

I wound up canceling my account. It doesn’t distinguish cash back when making purchases, thus I was informed I spent triple what I do on groceries, because I use the grocery store as an ATM to fund everything else.

If you commit to a cash free life, it should be a useful tool