Manage your finances online for FREE
Posted by conducivetechnology on June 25, 2008
If you are still opening 5-6 different tabs to view bank accounts, credit card accounts, and other investment portfolios then the following 2 web apps are here to make your financial life easier to manage.
MINT
Mint.com is a free personal finance service which has over 250,000 users managing over $10 billion in transactions. Designed to be effortless, Mint.com takes less than five minutes to setup. Mint then does the work for you securely downloading transaction data from more than 6,500 bank, credit card and investment accounts on a daily basis. Mint also does a great job of properly categorizing transactions making it easy to see where your money is going. Mint will alert you of low balances, bank fees (no more hidden fees), upcoming bills, and potentially suspicious account activity while providing personalized suggestions for significant savings opportunities. It is no wonder that this service was rated top in its category by PC World, and PC Magazine! Try it out and tell us what you think. MINT.COM
BUXFER
Buxfer, which name is a derivitive of the words bucks, and transfer is another well known online financial manager. They also provide an effortless way to track your money and know where it goes.. It also has an easy way to settle your IOUs with friends. With access via SMS, email, Twitter, and the web it makes staying up-to-date with your finances easy wherever you go. A great feature included with Buxfer is that if your bank account isn’t supported by their auto-sync feature (List of supported intitutions), Buxfer offers a firefox add-on called Firebux which can automate the process of downloading your bank statements and uploading it to your Buxfer account. BUXFER.COM
