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    Mint.com Online Finance Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by -, Jun 25, 2009.

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    Mint online financepromises all the essential household-budgeting functions of Quicken -- but for free. In fact, Mint's success and appeal has been cited as one of the reasonsMicrosoft discontinued MS Moneytwo weeks ago. Can a web-based application that gives away its services actually replace the heavyweights of personal finance software? We put Mint.com to the test in this review.



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    Umm... I saw this thread title and thought "spam".

    Interesting, but I'm not sure if I would want to put all my financial records online.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jun 25, 2009
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    Interesting review. So the overall plan is that we give Mint access to all our bank accounts, all our spending. The review says nothing about privacy.

    Not a word about who started the site, their track record, their conflicts of interest.

    The software is free? So how do they get paid? This seems unlikely to be charity (see point #2). Perhaps the business plan is to sell data?

    I'll speak only for me, but when it comes to financial transactions the first thing I want in a review is coverage on security and privacy. Without security and privacy I don't care what the features are or how easy it is to use.

    The author needs to review the Mint privacy policy with a good lawyer and someone who knows how the data industry works.
     
    T61Dumb, Jun 25, 2009
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    I've been using Mint for a while, kinda as a better UI for my crap Online Banking from my credit union. This review is pretty good and hits on some of the things that I hope they'll implement soon:

    I really, really, want to be able to do transfers from within Mint. It would just be one less thing to have to do after checking my account balance.

    Being able to deposit checks through the UI would be cool too, I know one area credit union does this so perhaps it depends on the bank....

    A Windows Mobile app would be nice in addition to the mobile apps they already have.

    But so far, for what it is, it's pretty decent. :)
     
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    I use Yodlee. Thought about using Mint. Just seemed that Yodlee has more features.
     
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    I thought this was spam too. And an administrator with 5 posts posting this? What's finance got to do with notebook review? Being free I can only see them selling your private information or at least grabbing info such as email to send you newsletters, offers and try to sell you other stuff or to other companies offers.
     
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    NBR also does software reviews, they also did one on Money in the past. :)

    I was a bit concerned about email spam, but so far I've only gotten my weekly summary of my accounts, just like I do with Quicken Online. (which for a while, I used instead of Mint) If stuff like that does happen in the future though, I wouldn't hesitate to move to something else.
     
    booboo12, Jun 26, 2009
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