Comments on: Welcome Microsoft Money users

By: navyboy3

navyboy3 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:54 +0000

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.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:17:21 +0000

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$.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:25:54 +0000

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.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:05:05 +0000

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$.

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By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:47:20 +0000

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.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:28:11 +0000

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.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:30:52 +0000

Can you use stock symbols to keep track of your investments?

By: Andrea Mac Murray

Andrea Mac Murray — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:02:31 +0000

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

By: Sandie

Sandie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:15 +0000

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?

By: Mr Minty

Mr Minty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:36:02 +0000

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.