My husband and I are really starting to like Mint.com. There are a lot of features that have come in really handy. One of the things that I didn’t realize before was that it will email you a weekly view of your account status. It will also send you the status of your budget. You can set up additional alerts that will either email or text you for things like low balance, over budget and deposits.
I also am learning to really like the automatic download of my account status every time I log in and the amount of accounts that Mint seems to have access to. (Much more than my standard Quicken Software). This software, for being free is really one of the best out there.
I don’t pay any attention to the services that they try to sell me on, the better interest banks and CDs and other items like that. If those links and services are needed to make this great site free for the user then I’m all for it. I do my own research when it comes to where my money goes and it helps to have such a quick picture of where I stand from anywhere I have an internet connection.
While I’m still not ready to completely change over to Mint I am patiently waiting for them to add the one feature holding me back. Import of old data. Mint is great if you’re just starting out but for those of us that have been tracking our data for sometime there is still no way to import all your old data…YET! They are working on that problem.
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