online tool to track expenses?

Re: online tool to track expenses?

• na41313 member

  

  January 2014

  We use mint. It lets you categorize every expense and then subtotals them into the budgets. I've been really happy with it so far. We also have an ongoing Excel spreadsheet that my husband keeps. He's a CPA though, so I understand that's not practical for everyone to enjoy. Hope this helps!

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• hoffse member

  

  January 2014

  I'm not a fan of mint, but I did use it for awhile.  Eventually it started miscategorizing and double counting purchases - at it wouldn't let me save any changes I made when trying to fix the mistakes.  It's a pretty common glitch.  You can read about it all over the internet.

  
  

  You can give mint a shot and maybe you'll be lucky with your account.  Mine just got worse and worse, so I finally gave up and went to excel.

  

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• mbecker03 member

  

  January 2014

  Mint has some bugs but that's what we use. You can use it for budgeting but we mostly just use it to track expenses as we don't really have a strict month-to-month budget. I've also heard of people loving YNAB, though I've never used it myself and it's paid and it's really all about budgeting. Mint I think would be better just for tracking purposes.

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• maple2 member

  

  January 2014

  We use a free tool through our bank. You could check if your bank or other financial institution offers something similar.

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• kcircell member

  

  January 2014

  I use Mvelopes, it is paid for and it has an app.  I've been happy with it for the last 7 years.  We were paying quarterly for a while and then they offered a life time subscription for a few hundred dollars and we took the plunge and never looked back.

  

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