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Ready for the next Evolution

Thank you for being a part of what’s becoming a revolution in active personal financial management. I’m excited to say that Mint.com and Intuit are coming together to take personal finance to the next level. Mint.com has entered into an agreement to be purchased by Intuit. Once the acquisition closes, Mint.com will have the opportunity to spread that revolution to more people, more quickly, together with one of the world’s strongest software brands. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of 2009.
What’s not going to change

Mint.com will stay the way you like it: free, easy-to-use and constantly improving.
What will change

As outlined in today’s press release and my blog post, after the acquisition closes, the Mint.com team will contribute to improving the financial lives of tens of millions of consumers and small businesses. I’ll personally be taking on the role of GM of Intuit’s Personal Finance group responsible for online, desktop and mobile consumer personal finance offerings. Joining Intuit enables us to bring our vision of helping consumers understand and do more with their money to millions of Intuit customers. This is a compelling combination of our innovative product, technology, and industry leading user interface design with one of the most trusted brands in software.
I look forward to executing on that vision — for you.
Thanks for your support,
Aaron Patzer
Founder and CEO

Both were really easy in terms of adding banks & credit cards, I didn’t notice one being better than the other.

The issues were 1) the banks required me to store a certificate in my browser and 2) They had multiple security questions, any one of which would be asked during every login. Mint had no trouble with #1, but unless you’ve setup the account properly in Mint, it gets tripped up by #2. Here’s what I did:

First, I don’t use the “correct” answers for any of those security questions. As Mrs. Palin discovered last year, it’s very easy for someone to find out my mother’s maiden name or the city I was born in. So, I have an encrypted database I use that stores the answers to these questions for each place I use them (I use something different at every institution).

If your bank uses multiple security questions, they should have an option for you to decide which questions you want to be asked and what answers correspond to those questions. So, go in and make sure you have all of your question/answer pairs setup right. Then, go into Mint and provide it with that info. There’s an option page for your bank’s properties where you can specify every question they could possibly ask and the answers to same.

Once those were in sync, Mint worked perfectly with both banks that were giving me trouble. My only problem with Mint now is how slow it can be in sending updates. For example, I will regularly get an alert a week after my paycheck was deposited to tell me my paycheck was deposited…

If you go into transactions, click on a transaction that you want to split, click ‘edit details’. There you can split a transaction as many times as you want in Mint.

Taking a second look at Quicken Online, I still don’t see that feature. Give another point to Mint!

Thanks again!

Just select the transaction to split, click the “edit details” button that appears. A new panel will dropdown and on the top right of that panel is a “split transaction” button. Click it and split to you hearts content. You can split a transaction into as many sub transactions as you want.