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.
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