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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 #100 on: October 26, 2015, 07:34:03 PM »
Mine is fixed after a couple of refreshes and "click to fix" its.
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #101 on: October 27, 2015, 03:29:16 AM »
Still not working... What do you mean by click to fix...?

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #102 on: October 27, 2015, 07:29:58 AM »
It was fixed for a day. Now not working again.
If you don't care why would you comment?
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #103 on: October 27, 2015, 09:17:31 AM »
It was fixed for a day. Now not working again.
Quote from: https://mint.lc.intuit.com/announcements/1243144
We continue to work with Chase toward a resolution.  As we make progress, you may see your connection begin to work again sporadically.  Again, your continued patience and understanding is much appreciated.
ETA: Personally, got mine working again last night. It showed an issue when I logged in today, but refreshed properly after clicking Fix It once.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #104 on: October 27, 2015, 09:23:13 AM »
Any success on iPhone?

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #105 on: October 27, 2015, 09:41:04 AM »
Any success on iPhone?
It should not make a difference which device you are using.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #106 on: October 27, 2015, 09:51:15 AM »

It should not make a difference which device you are using.
I understand why you would think so, but it has to do with the app itself how it stores/clears old info regardless of what happens at Mint HQs

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #107 on: October 27, 2015, 12:14:11 PM »
I don't have a fix button.. Only a refresh....?

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« Reply #108 on: October 27, 2015, 12:30:52 PM »
Click on edit, go to the account in question.
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #109 on: October 27, 2015, 12:39:32 PM »
OK thank you

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #110 on: October 27, 2015, 01:20:30 PM »

Click on edit, go to the account in question.
Pretty sure the iPhone app has no "fix it" option.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #111 on: October 27, 2015, 11:37:16 PM »
For those of you who use mint.com for actual budgeting/expense tracking:
do you use categories? tags? both?
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #112 on: November 01, 2015, 12:12:39 AM »
is there a way to show more than 100 transactions on a page? (for batch editing - I want to tag all transactions from before a certain date)
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #113 on: November 04, 2015, 12:03:24 AM »
Chase started working!

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #115 on: November 04, 2015, 01:45:21 AM »
Not for me

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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #116 on: November 04, 2015, 02:10:18 AM »
Not for me
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #117 on: November 04, 2015, 07:31:48 AM »
Just tried now. Also error.
my connection to chase just started again this morning by itself
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Re: Mint.com- tracks your finances
« Reply #118 on: November 04, 2015, 01:59:59 PM »
Any way for mint to show me the actual transaction info it gets from the bank, not their horrible renaming scheme?

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