Mint is a free online service that lets you keep tabs on where you’re spending your hard-earned cash. It differentiates itself from other personal finance tools because it’s free and it automatically aggregates your banking and credit card data in an easy to use and up to date view that runs the gamut on your financial situation. It even goes as far as suggesting money-making scenarios and everything is accessible via your mobile phone or Internet machine.
It seems a bit like Quicken, but way better. It tracks your spending habits and lets you know where your money is being allocated and alerts you when you dip below a certain balance. You can even compare how much money is spent between shopping and dining. Everything is up to date, so you’re always in the know. The best part is that it can alert you to promotions from companies who you already pay bills to so that you can take advantage of said promotions or it alerts you to other VoIP providers with better rates. The same goes for credit cards so you can get rid of that high-rate card for a lower one. Awesome. I’m signing up right now.
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Peter Ha
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September 18, 2007
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i signed up to check it out.. I really like it.. eye opener on how much coffee i drink from the coffee shops vs. my home coffee maker.
one think i would like to see them introduce is forecasting. It gives you great ideas on where you’ve spent, where you are now. But as you are planning future purchases and are trying to figure out if you can make it work, you currently have no tools for this. I’d like to see recurring transactions you could input that once paid would be wiped clean with the real transaction from the bank. Anyway to input fixed income sources and fixed expenses to better track your future financial situation.
Perhaps those are in the cooker already!
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dude. i’m sitting here at TC40 trying to share the coolest stuff here. There’s a lot of stuff that I didn’t post out of deference to the “service-phobia” of you, our dear readers. Besides, you posted about the Zimbra sale, Andrew, and I go to your site solely for pictures of your cat.
Not trying to be a prick John, but I read TC for that stuff and Crunchgear for well gear…. My feed reader is filled with TC40 stuff. I suggest you have a CG40 symposium – so I can post the same thing on TC when they double cover it.
Wow – You’re one of the 10 readers “my cat included’ that I have. Nice to be noticed.
PS – where’s my headset?
its scary putting your online banking logins in and it not working…