Comments on: Mint.com Review: Beautiful Money Management Tool

By: Florence

Florence — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:48:13 +0000

i just got it to take both my credit unions, but i had to enter one with the full bank name (only way it worked) then the other with the web address but just the beginning (www.mybank.org)

By: Florence

Florence — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:46:13 +0000

under food they have a alcohol/bar selection and if you select “edit details” under any beer store purchase, you can change the category and then make a “rule” that applies it every time that transaction shows up

By: Florence

Florence — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:44:17 +0000

Is it not finding your bank or saying that there is a problem. I had both when setting up. For my credit union, I had to enter the banks full name, not the website and that worked. For another bank I had to enter the web address, but not full one when I log in, just the first part (www.mybank.org). If it’s having problems accessing your accounts, then it may be the security questions, I answered ones I was familiar with, but after going to the bank/credit card website, I realized I hadn’t set up all 10 possible ones, it wouldn’t connect until I did and they all matched. Good luck!!

By: dave

dave — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:05:15 +0000

Mint is absolutely phenomenal, and I love it enough for me to change banks. It works for every single account I have except my credit union which I run everything through. I guess I’ll need to find a new credit union.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:27:19 +0000

I agree that Mint is a really slick idea and has huge potential, but the site is extremely buggy.

Mint is unable to maintain a connection to my credit union accounts for longer than a day. When it loses connection (daily), I need to delete and re-add the account. This is not an acceptable workaround. Their Support has been no help with this issue, and it has been reported repeatedly for over two weeks.

Please be aware of this if you attempt to use Mint. I’m on the verge of abandoning it, if they can’t get their site working.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:54:40 +0000

Mariana, glad you are enjoying using it!
Mint has helped me hone my budget more effectively too.
To change it in Mint: Go to the overview page. Then just click directly on the $ amount for the category you want to change. This will pop-up a window allowing you to re-set your budget.

By: Mariana

Mariana — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:30:11 +0000

I’ve been “Minting” for three months, and find the site easy to navigate and very helpful.

I do have a question for those of you longer time users regarding the budget section.

When I originally plugged in my budget numbers, they were very rough. Ninety days later, real numbers are becomming clear and I would like to adjust the budget to reflect reality.

Can anyone help me with how I would go about changing the budget numbers that I originally input?

I have searched the site thoroughly and could find nothing.

Either it isn’t there, or I missed it.

By: NickT

NickT — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:15:48 +0000

ditto

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:18:38 +0000

You must be doing something wrong. Vanguard and Fidelity worked fine for me.

By: stevelindberg

stevelindberg — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:25:50 +0000

Signed up for Mint. I have accounts with Fidelity and Vanguard, hardly obscure. The Mint setup process was unable to download my information, therefore making it USELESS.

By: Slinky

Slinky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:47:23 +0000

I hate how Mint’s “security policy” is so misleading. They say they don’t store any personal information. True enough. But another company, Yodlee, DOES store your user id, password, and whatever other credentials are needed to login.

I’ll accept the risk of online banking. It’s just one account. But having checking, saving, credit card, loans, mortgages, and investment account information all stored on someone else’s servers makes me very nervous. And not only your name, but password as well. It would be very easy to clean you out of every cent you can access in minutes if someone did get into Yodlee.

And Hackers usually come in through the back door, not the front.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:16:24 +0000

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:39 +0000

so finally decided to give it a go almost what? a year and a half after I demonstrated it to the team?
glad you are enjoying it!

By: CUMarketer

CUMarketer — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:04:59 +0000

I just checked out Wesabe but I hate the manual download of information. Can anyone suggest another site, like Mint, that does auto-downloads but will support local banks and credit unions?

By: poscogrubb

poscogrubb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:21:01 +0000

I’ve read about Mint.com before, and it’s definitely beautiful. But I’m still risk-averse when it comes to financial data. It’s a good point that Mint does not request or store personally identifying data. But there’s still the risk of Internet down-time, whether it’s their servers or your ISP.

I’ve been (occasionally) paying for Microsoft Money, and I’m looking into using GnuCash (free and open source).