Mint.com – Amazing FREE way to Manage Your Money
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I was tinkering around on my iPhone the other day after I heard that Chase Bank now allowed you to deposit checks with your iPhone. That’s right… take a photo of the front and back of the check and consider it deposited! AMAZING!
So I hear this, look up the app on my iPhone and that’s when my ADHD kicks in! From Chase to BofA (when are they going to get this!) to “I saw a commercial for Quickbooks Online, I wonder if they have and app?” to randomly… “What the heck is Mint.com?”
What is it? Picture Quicken online and free! In fact, Quicken (Intuit) bought them in an effort to further push financial awareness.
This one site allows you to access the information to all of your financial accounts (checking, savings, loans, credit cards, etc.), create budgets and set goals. I was skeptical at first and then I began to play with it and WOW! It is so easy! Your data is secure and more importantly so is your money. Mint.com only accesses the data and does not have the ability to access the $$! This means that no one that accesses your Mint.com data will be able to either.
How is it Free? Mint.com will make suggestions based on your financial data. Say your interest rate on a credit card goes up. Mint will see this and suggest another card with a lower rate. That is where Mint makes money.
Bottom line, I love Mint because it is so simple. I believe most people don’t take control of their finances because it feels too overwhelming. This system makes it so easy for anyone to have a financial dashboard that gives them an amazing overview of their financial position in seconds. Mint will also send you email and text alerts for a number of different scenarios (account too low, spending over budget, etc.).
I could so go on and on about Mint.com, and I won’t. What I will do is ask you how much longer you are going to wait to get a guage on your financial health, especially since someone has made it this easy!
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