More of What You Want From Mint

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Joel

mint.com is a fantastic program that I have used for almost a year now. I particularly like the once a week report that you send me. Following is an added feature to your program that I feel would make it even better.
Every week I save your weekly reports in a special file. Then I save the weekly info in an Excel worksheet. Now after 10 months of saved data, I can track how my net worth has changed over time. Is it more or less than it was 3, 6 or 9 months ago. How has my cash position vs. investments changed over a time period. How have my individual stocks fared over a certain period vs. my mutual funds. Have my credit card debts been rising or falling over time. It would be wonderful if mint.com could incorporate this data in the program, so that I would not have to input it in my Excel spreadsheet every week.
Tom Murphy
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More of what I want from mint, to actually make proper use of all these newly released features is the option to TURN OFF SIMPLIFICATION OF THE TRANSACTION DESCRIPTIONS! What good are ANY of these transactions when they are not correctly described and categorized? Until you have a accuracy rate better than 50% you should give us the option to turn off your simplification. It doesn’t work. And it takes MORE time to fix transaction descriptions than it does to fix a category; does that make since? Its easier to re-categorize something than it is to re-describe it. I don’t want to create 500 different rules for every transaction, I just want to see how my bank described it – which even though it doesn’t look as nice, it’s at least correct.

An example:

Someone would know who “POS 3000 184 ST./3000 184 ST. SOUTHWESTLYNNWOOD 0408 M” but trying to guess from your simplified ” St St” is ridiculous.

We still use checks, believe it or not. Can any of these be categorized automatically? Or can you pull up the check image to be able to categorize it thus?

Nice app!

How do I total amount in my tags?

Great program. But: 2 features that are sorely needed:

(1) Export a csv spreadsheet with much more information:
— show all categories and subcategories
— show month-by-month
These levels of details could be checkboxes that people could select if they want them. It should be easy to automate this, but at present the only way to get the info is to hand-type it from mint into a spreadsheet.

(2) Hand-add items that are not in any of our accounts that you monitor.

Thanks!

I would like to have the ability to delete CATEGORIES that I do not want or use. I can add new ones but can’t delete the standard ones that I don’t use or want. This is a major flaw in the program in my opinion. Otherwise, I love Mint.

I love Mint. It has been a HUGE help in managing all my check and savings accounts, credit cards and mortgages. The more I add, the more accurate the overview is. I love the new features. I have been using mint for about a year, now and it has saved me a huge amount of time (and money).

I love the export feature. This is a huge time-saver. My only request is to have the ability to limit the time period from: date to date. Currently, I need to export all X number of transactions and then delete the old to avoid duplication. Then I import the records into my favorite program in order to have more control over the data.

Being that this is a free service, I am always worried that some of this data may disappear someday. So, I continue the export on a regular basis, just in case…

Thank you, Mint!

Can I download the expense transactions from Mint to excel?

In Transactions, there was an icon named “Rules”. I never knew how to use it. No matter what line item I highlighted, Rules started with “Services”. I assume Rules is meant to consistently rename a category when it comes in from a credit card or bank, so that I do not have to continually rename that category each month? I think the most important part of your service would be to get the categories right or what’s the value of the service? And if you don’t get it right, that’s fine. But you should provide more information and tools to your users so that they can. A “Rules” icon with no information or instructions that disappears is not a good start.

Is Mint.com ever planning on fixing the bug where budgets for ATM withdraws never indicate any money as been withdrawn ($0 of x). I’ve been using Mint about as long as it has existed and have contacted technical support on at least three occasions with nothing to show for it. This is where a lot of people lose track of their spending and would be very helpful to know.

I’m a newbie to Mint- comfortable with Quicken functionalites- any way to manage investment portfolio on Mint – being abel to taga nd generate reports by asset type or grouping?

Love the app – but I have a question. I get paid once a month, at the end of the month. This month, for example, we were paid October 30th. For budgeting purposes, this is when my month starts, not November 1. I know that I had expenses on 10/31 that I’d like to account for in this budget, but November shows empty (including my paycheck).

Ideas?

Why isn’t there a payment calendar where I can enter the date that a bill is due with an alert system that would remind me to pay the bill? Why not just have a “due date” entry box in the details of the “planning” area?? This function is somewhat there for irregular payments where you enter the frequency of the payment and then the month it is due. I would think this is something that is not only simple to program, but also essential to a basic budget. Come on guys, get with the program. You have a great start on something that could be even better – but why ignore a fundamental part of regular budgeting. Also, I know I’m not the only user with this comment as I have seen it posted many times before. Let’s get on this one!!!!

Still waiting on the ability to enter upcoming transactions and/or checks that have not posted yet. Can’t have an accurate picture of your account balances if you have a few or several hundreds of dollars worth of checks hanging out there that you have to manually account for in another program.

I agree that “Planning” should include upcoming bills that Mint deduces from our transaction history like Quicken does with the ability to remove the ones that are bogus. We should also be able to enter upcoming bills manually. This way we can truly “Plan” and forecast our money left over.

What a better way to save than to see that you have some extra money ’til pay day that you can transfer to savings.

WE WANT FREE MINT IN UK PLEASE!