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Microsoft today announced that it will stop selling Microsoft Money, its venerable personal finance software, by the end of June. While the software will continue to work, users will no longer have access to automated data feeds from their banks, credit card companies and other financial service providers.
If you’re a Microsoft Money user looking for a new tool to help you continue to manage your money, we invite you to try Mint.com.
Mint.com is the #1 free online personal finance service…and it’s free. It makes staying on top of your finances easy, efficient, and convenient. Mint.com shows you all of your accounts in one place, helps you budget, finds you ways to save money, and alerts you to any unusual activity in any of your accounts. Over a million users trust Mint.com with their critical financial information and find it the most convenient way to manage their money.
Here’s why we think you’ll like Mint.com as much as they do:
You’re in good company
Nearly 40% of Mint.com users tell us they’ve tried Microsoft Money — and chose Mint.com. In fact, Motley Fool and Lifehacker.com readers (among others) have consistently picked Mint.com as their favorite personal finance tool.
Mint starts free and stays free
Sign up for Mint.com and you can say goodbye to buying annual upgrades. Mint.com is continually adding and improving its features. And when we do, you’ll get them free.
Mint.com is easy to set up…and the rest is automatic
There’s no need to install software and connecting your financial accounts takes just minutes. After that, we do the work for you, updating your accounts, categorizing your transactions, calculating budgets, sending you alerts, etc.
Mint is online and accessible from anywhere
Unlike Microsoft Money, Mint.com can be used from any web browser on any computer. There’s no need to install anything and you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. We even have an iPhone app and a version of our service for your My Yahoo! personalized home page.
Mint is safe and secure
Your security is our first priority. We never ask for any personally identifiable information. We connect directly to your accounts using the same bank-level security as leading financial institutions. You can’t move money in Mint.com, and neither can anyone else.
Mint saves you money
Mint.com automatically compares your credit cards, bank accounts, brokerage accounts and CD’s to available offers and lets you know if there are better options to consider.
We know that change can be stressful. That’s why we’ve made it as easy as possible to get started with Mint.com. All you need is an email address and password. Then, add your accounts one at a time in just minutes. We hope you’ll try us out today.
Welcome, and please let us know your first impressions of Mint.com.
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leave a commentYou got this long time Microsoft Money user quite a while back. I especially did not enjoy having to make various transactions balance between accounts, as sometimes they really didn’t!
The single most important feature of a finance program (after automating downloading transactions) is the pie chart showing where everything went and being able to click on segments to drill down.
I had resigned myself to having to write my own program as I also switched desktop to Linux and none of the open source programs could download from my institutions, or had a user interface that was anywhere near as friendly as Money. And then one day I heard about Mint and have been happy ever since.
I love mint.com, but I still use Microsoft Money simultaneously for ONE reason and ONLY ONE reason: the ability to enter uncleared transactions. I know lots of users have been screaming for this feature, and I won’t be surprised if Mint delivers on this. The key question is WHEN?! It’s so important to know exactly what my balance WILL be in a day, 5 days, or 15 days. In Money, I enter transactions (such as a debit card purchase) and then reconcile, as well as future bill payments. Do you expect to provide this feature any time soon?
Too bad all the MS Money users will lose all their transaction history, its Buxfer for me until importing is an option.
As a current user of Microsoft Money, I can’t wait to make the switch to Mint. Except, I can’t. My banks are not available yet. Maybe someday!!
It’s really a good news for Microsoft Money users who live in USA. What about those out of USA users? Can they use Mint? I tried mint 18 months ago and was told that it is USA only, too bad…
I’ve been a long time user of Money and I’m a little shocked about this. My world is about to change. Of course, the accessibility of Money was a minor issue, but I could also pay my bills in the program. Does Mint have a way to pay bills? I don’t think they do. I know I can use my banks bill pay service, but that was the point of having Money, everything was in one place.
as much as I love mint, it has its share of shortcomings that I am sure they are well aware of .. bill pay for one.
anyway, the posting is scare mongering.. MS will support Money and the updates through Jan 2011 giving Mint and sites like that enough time to catch up….
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10261742-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
I’ve also been a long time MS Money user (since 98). Both of the major desktop application support the concept of upcoming transactions, and that’s my holdup with mint.com and the others. I need a place to put my bills that I’ve paid (so I pay them ontime), even though they may not have cleared my bank account yet.
I’m another longtime MS Money user that is going to continue to use Mint.com and Money in tandem until Mint improves their investment tracking features.
For me, having automated cost averaging and the complex options tracking are the required features. I’m giving Mint until Jan 2011, otherwise I’m going to use (gasp) Quicken.
But I do LOVE the features Mint.com does have! Keep adding features at your current level of quality and you guys will have all of my business!
It´s possible to import Microsoft Money files?
Indeed, as some had mentioned, us Canadians are out of luck with Mint at the moment… If there are plans for this to change, we’d love to know about it
MS Money had a feature in budget where in you can group categories together and put a budget limit for that entire group. For example, I don;t care if I spend more for the category “Restaurants”. But I want to make sure that I stay within limits for a group called “Fun” which contains categories “Restaurant”, “Entertainment” and “Travel”. This is something mint lacks and I hope they’ll bring out something like this. But other than that, mint is great!!!
You can set up your own categories to mirror what you want and then add that to the budget. So what you mention, you most certainly can do. I’ve only been using mint for 1 week and already I’ve done exactly what you want.
I haven’t seen the features in Mint that would be required for migration. My assumption is most users should consider Quicken instead, especially as they announced supporting migration. In particular Mint does not support:
1) importing MS Money history – not even as qif.
2) accounts that don’t sync automatically (e.g. enter transactions manually).
3) accounts in foreign currencies.
The biggest hurdle for me to switch over from Money to Mint is the ability to handle cash accounts and make manual entries. Mint doesn’t allow this. I cannot create a manual account and make my own entries and track the money there. If (or when) I can do that, I will jump in. In fact, Yodlee lets you do that already!
I probably will stick with MS$ even after 2011. May be I am too concervative, but I prefer applications downloaded and running on my laptop and not depending on internet. Especialy those ones which I am using daily.
Are any other alternatives besides quicken ?
I’ve recently switched from Quicken Premiere to MondeyDance, because I’m fed up with Quicken’s 3 year “sunset” policy. MD isn’t as flashy as Quicken (graphs are limited, etc), but it has most of the practical functionality … and there are some nice features that Quicken doesn’t have (online bill pay is free, it’s cross platform / open source design, etc.).
I may use Mint to fill the gaps lacking in MoneyDance.
I am very open to Mint, however i echo some of the needs others have said.
1) Need to track future transactions (for budgeting/end of month reconciliation purposes)
2) Very similar to last item, but i need to be able to enter recurring bills. I need to be able to track taxes paid, and to have to manually split each paycheck is very cumbersome.
3) split feature needs to be more intuitive. Primarily when i do a split i still want to see the total transaction amount so i can match that up with bank statements. I suggest indenting split transactions and showing a rollup one with the original total.
If the first two are added i am definitely switching to mint. However if they are not, i am going to have to look elsewhere.
I have been a long time MS Money user that switched over to an iMac in 2007. I had been using Boot Camp and VMware just keep using MS Money. It is the only reason I use windows at home. I wanted to switch to a Mac native program, but I refused to pay for an outdated Quicken 2007 and none of the other software (iBank, iFinance, Moneydance, etc) really enticed me to get aggressive with a switch.
Intuit announced that an all new Quicken for Mac was coming soon, so it gave me another excuse to wait and work in virtualization. As my job demanded I travel more, I saw more and more of a need to use a more cloud like application. Mint started getting a lot of buzz and after trying it, the site is truly impressive. They really have some good design philosophies. But sadly, it lacks the forecasting features that could allow me to depend on it as my sole financial manager.
Now that Microsoft announced that they are giving up on their software, I feel desperate to make a move. I went into my already existing Mint account and updated it easily and assigned categories. I cant believe how easy this application is to use, but without the forecasting feature, I still can’t depend on it.
I checked out Quicken online because I already have a TurboTax Online ID and there you go. It has forecasting and it made suggestions on my recurring transactions based on the transactions is downloaded. The interface is ugly, the categories dont seem to have the ease of use, but it has the functionality that I require to manage my finances.
If Mint would just give me a hint that this feature would be available in the future, I would figure out a way to keep using MS Money until it arrived. But sadly my gut tells me that this request screamed my many users will go unanswered and I will end up spending a lot of time setting up Quicken Online. Once that happens, it will be very hard for me to make a switch back, because I will not lose my investment in making this transition.
Any news either way would be better than none. Mint?
Man reading these comments is like looking in the mirror or my own little support group. I too am a Mac user that only keeps a Window machine in the house to run MS$. Now that Mint has been purchased by Quicken, I bet that we will see better integration of the two services in the future. I am a long time MS$ user and have data going back to 1996; I would hate to loose all that history.
In the meantime, I am waiting to see what happens with the merger and if Quicken will be able to easily transfer over data from MS$.
I have been a Msft Money user for 12 years and love it: pay bills, reconcile, and see all my accounts on one screen. I am very frustrated that Money is not being continued and do not know where to go. I like the idea that I see all my accounts, but I cannot pay bills from here. Breaking down my credit card bill will be a hassle in Mint – it is so easy in Money. Also, when you pay bills on line with Money you see the category; when you download into MInt it shows a check number not who you made the check out to. This is extra work- why not show the Pay to?
I started using mint, and I think this would be optimal for me, but my checking account is with a small bank in IA, and mint does not support them. I have sent several requests, and have not gotten an answer. So please add smaller banks in the Midwest and I can guarantee you, you will add a lot of users.
Thanks
Andrea Mac Murray
Can you use stock symbols to keep track of your investments?
Over a decade of financial information kept in MS Money, bank accounts in four different currencies, budget structure I’ve customized to my needs.
Mint looks interesting, but until it ads a true import for MS Money files, support for foreign currencies, non-automated transation upload (for banks it can’t presently handle) and possibility of entering manual transations, it simply isn’t a realistic alternative.
Have never really liked MS Money but have never found a real alternative. Looks like this isn’t it. Hopefully not yet, but someday.
I love Mint although I just started using it about 2 months ago. But I still use money for uncleared transactions as other people have noted. It’s great that I know exactly how much money I have in every account at the moment (Money was really bad about this because it dealt with investment accounts really inefficiently and required a lot of manual data entry). Now all I have to do is tweak a few entries when they come in (the checks) and the category matching is nearly flawless. But Mint won’t stop me from writing a bad check, only Money (or Quicken) will. Mint will just tell me I already have. With things tight all over for lots of people this is a make or break feature. Also, I still haven’t figured out a way to enter cost basis on my investments. My accounts don’t have this info and everything is logged as having the value it had when I started using Mint.
Perhaps that’s never going to be what Mint does. Now that Intuit has bought Mint, if Quicken wants to provide support for Mint, and allow people to seamlessly do their bookkeeping with Quicken and their tracking on Mint, I’d go for that. That’s definitely a service worth paying for, and I don’t see anyone complaining if standalone Mint continues to be free.
I too have been using MS$ for 12 years and I’m looking to switch over. But after reading all these post I’ll just wait. If I can’t import my 12 year history I’m not going no where! Also, another biggie is entering in unreconciled transactions and upcoming bill pays…There is no way I could live without that.
Also, how safe would my data be from loss? MS & T-Mobile just lost everyone’s Sidekick data and I would have never thought that was possible in this day and age.
I have used MS$ for years and am addicted to it. Once I heard it was going away, I looked into other options (after I cried) and I am using Mint but I’m not really sure what for. Other than giving me a big picture, it doesn’t pay my bills or give me my cashflow forecast. I will still use Money as a check register and to see my forcasted cash flow. As to those who think you’ll have service until 2011, think again. You have 2 years from date of activation to have the automatic updates work, a week ago, I was notified I had 30 days until it was done for me. I scrambled to set up auto pay where available and the rest bill pay through my bank. This loyal customer will miss MS$.
With MS Money’s departure, a void has been left. Mint does some things well, actually Quicken Online has a better feature set in my opinion however neither do it all compared to Money. The balance outlook in Money was much more advanced than the rudimentary one in Quicken that only looks ahead 2 paychecks. Mint with all of its hype doesnt even have a balance outlook. Nevermind that Money also allowed you to pay bills and that provided a one stop software. Until quicken and or Mint does the balance forecasting and hopefully bill pay it will be only one of the tools I have to use to managee my finances in the absence of MS Money.
Please offer a phone number for those of us having difficulty adding accounts???
Upcoming transactions should be added to Mint. I’m coming over from QuickenOnline, and I really miss this feature. I’m trying to understand Mint’s budgeting system, but it’s not as well suited to my needs as upcoming transactions was in QuickenOnline.
Also a Money orphan, I have now tried both Mint and Quicken. Neither have what I would consider very basic features:
1. Support for on-line transactions in multiple currencies.
2. Support for banks that can provide OFC/QFX files for import but who are not officially listed as “supported” by either Mint of Quicken.
It is said really that Quicken, the market leader, is so short in such a basic area. There are millions of people in the US with foreign accounts (so says the IRS), and I’m certainly one of them.
I actually could live with Mint’s other shortcomings (I really don’t need to enter future uncleared transactions, etc.) if it would only support non-US financial institutions and multiple currencies (at one bank I have both CAD and USD checking accounts, and both a CAD, USD, and pound sterling Visa credit card).
What Mint can’t do that MS Money can it to post checks you’ve written in order to know your true account balance. Mint only tells you what has cleared, so if you have checks outstanding and you rely on you Mint balance, you are very likely to bounce a check and incurr severe penalties.
I agree that with the exception of Microsoft Money, all programs, Quicken included, miss the Cash Flow forecast feature. I find this to be the single most signficant feature I’ve ever used in personal finance management.
With Microsoft Money, I could tell you nearly to the penny exactly who much money I would have 2 weeks, 1 month, 6 months or 1 year from now. It also helped me to understand the impact of purchase decisions assuming that there would be no increase to forecasted income.
Quicken Online has a rudimentary version of that, but I can’t interact with it or use it for modeling nearly as well as I could with Microsoft Money.
If you could deliver that, as a number of people in this thread have requested, I would be a zealot for your app.