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Mint.com
Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada

Description
Mint's primary service allows users to track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions and balances through a single user interface as well as make budgets and goals. In 2009, it was acquired by Intuit

price
Free

Security
Mint asks users to provide both the user names and the passwords to their bank accounts, credit cards, and other financial accounts, which then Mint stores in their databases in a decryptable format. This has raised concerns that if the Mint databases are ever hacked, both user names and passwords would become available to rogue 3rd parties. Some banks support a separate "access code" for read-only access to financial information, which reduces the risk to some degree

I saw mentioned here and in other threads that mint.com is secure because it's 'read only'

it is simply not true;

to clarify:
                  Mint needs to access your financial accounts read-only since they don't do any transactions.
                  the user-name and password you provide is decrypt-able since they have to login.
                   if any hacker hacks their database and gets your user-name and password they can make any transaction they want.
unless
                   you provide Mint.com with a read only access token.

Note
the accounts don't have to be from 1 person or the same SSN.
if you have one account displayed in multiple accounts you can hide them in settings (Top left accounts)
you can set what category it should be marked in the future by selecting category > expand "Edit detials" > check "Rules"

Mint-Bills
In May 2014, purchased Check

Description
Get alerts when bills are due and easily make payments online.
« Last edited by yesitsme on May 26, 2015, 03:05:17 AM »

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #80 on: May 26, 2015, 09:36:07 AM »
you need to go to the individual banks and get a read only access password/token/key what ever they call it
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #81 on: May 26, 2015, 09:37:44 AM »
you need to go to the individual banks and get a read only access password/token/key what ever they call it

And once I have that I can instruct the bank to use it on Mint or I input it within Mint?
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #82 on: May 26, 2015, 09:39:02 AM »
You input it within Mint
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #83 on: May 26, 2015, 11:41:49 AM »
Which banks support the access code mentioned in the wiki?
I personally only have experience with capitol one 360, if someone knows about other banks that provide read only code please post them, Thanks.
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #84 on: May 26, 2015, 11:42:29 AM »
First Niagara IIRC

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #85 on: July 22, 2015, 10:41:11 AM »
Mint is having issues with Chase once again.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #86 on: July 26, 2015, 02:11:24 AM »
Is Mint the best application out there to track finances in one place?

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #87 on: August 02, 2015, 11:33:43 PM »
Is Mint the best application out there to track finances in one place?
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #88 on: August 03, 2015, 01:31:58 PM »

the big fish ate the small fish (Check.me, pageonce)
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #89 on: October 11, 2015, 06:55:02 PM »
No more statements. Huge loss.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #90 on: October 11, 2015, 08:49:22 PM »
Hmm. Never knew about this feature. Sounds useful.
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #91 on: October 19, 2015, 07:07:15 PM »
Anyone else having issues with Chase? Mine has not updated in 3 days.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #92 on: October 19, 2015, 07:09:52 PM »
Anyone else having issues with Chase? Mine has not updated in 3 days.

Just tried now. Also error.
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #93 on: October 19, 2015, 07:14:57 PM »
Just tried now. Also error.
Only having issues with one of my business accounts.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #95 on: October 19, 2015, 11:01:30 PM »
Is there a way to have Mint hide all my AU accounts?

It's annoying that I see each amex card twice - once for my main card and once for the AU - each of my online amex accounts is for one person, including their primary cards and their AUs. I can hide each AU account from Mint manually, but...

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #96 on: October 26, 2015, 04:54:14 PM »
Got an email saying it's fixed... But it's not working.... Anyone else with this issue?

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #97 on: October 26, 2015, 06:32:07 PM »

Got an email saying it's fixed... But it's not working.... Anyone else with this issue?
When did you get it?

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #98 on: October 26, 2015, 06:37:35 PM »
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #99 on: October 26, 2015, 06:39:03 PM »
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