Mint - Cool concept, but doesn’t work for me
A few days ago I read about Mint, a free web-based alternative to Quicken, MS Money, etc.
I thought I would really like using Mint because it was billed as being so easy - just put in your online backing username and password and it will automatically pull data on your spending trends, account alerts and more. This part sounded really cool - all of the software programs I have tried up to this point require a painstaking amount of work to sync with my online banking accounts.
I can’t use Mint, though, because apparently it doesn’t support people like me who manage different bank accounts under one internet banking login. I currently have 6 - checking, savings and credit for both our Utah marketing business and personal use.
I do not want Mint to pull my business banking data at all, but when I put in the username and password for my online banking it is only pulling one account (which happens to be from the business). I don’t see a way to change this so I guess I’ll just have to wait until Mint addresses the issue. I would think that at least having one checking and one savings account would be very common so I’m sure it will be addressed.
As a side-note, it is entirely possible this is a user error which I have been prone to make as well (read zach’s comment to see why my workaround was pointless).
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Never heard of it until this review. I tried it out and it pulled in all my accounts from my bank. I see two problems:
1. It pulls in my credit card balance as a positive number. I would prefer if rather than fixing it, they could duplicate this bug on my banks website.
2. I’m spending way too much on my car. Wow.
Comment by sam — September 22, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
I read about Mint a few weeks ago as well. It sounded interesting, and since I don’t have like 9,000 accounts (or 6), I was considering using the service. Your overwhelming influence on my decisions may have influenced me to the contrary though, Preston.
Comment by Bags — September 25, 2007 @ 12:56 pm