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FrugalFan

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Question about Mint
« on: October 27, 2015, 08:27:37 AM »
I've been using Mint for a few months and I love the net worth tracking and that all of our accounts are linked together so it is easy to see everything at once. However, all of our transfers out of our main account to our savings accounts or investment accounts show up as an expense. So it's hard to get a general quick picture of expenses (I do my own tracking in Excel but would be nice to have a quick snapshot). Has anyone found a way around this?

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2015, 08:46:00 AM »
You can change those to the transaction type of "transfer to savings" and that should fix your problem. It should offer you the option to do this for all future transactions like this one and then they'll automatically follow the same rules. Good luck!

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2015, 09:38:35 AM »
Thank you! Can't believe I couldn't figure that out.

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2015, 10:51:15 PM »
the problem i have with mint is that the investment section is all over the place... one day it shows i have made 247 million the next it shows i lost 36.9 million... next day i have 646k then next -2300....

I DON'T EVEN HAVE MILLIONS!
none of the numbers are ever right despite on the acct over view it has the right total acct value.

I wish i could cash out the 247 million.... :)

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2015, 08:40:00 AM »
^reboot. I dont have any of those problems. Mint..well is kinda Mint!

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2015, 09:52:39 AM »
the problem i have with mint is that the investment section is all over the place... one day it shows i have made 247 million the next it shows i lost 36.9 million... next day i have 646k then next -2300....

I DON'T EVEN HAVE MILLIONS!
none of the numbers are ever right despite on the acct over view it has the right total acct value.

I wish i could cash out the 247 million.... :)

Mint does that exact same crap for me too, so now I use Personal Capital for investment info and Mint for spending tracking/trends.  Seems like the Mint dev team is still working on the investment section to me.  Also I'm assuming the previous comment was talking about the phone app version instead of the webpage, but since we both see issues with their investment section that points to an issue with mint rather than an issue with our devices.

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2015, 11:34:52 AM »
I've never had that problem either, but I haven't tried the phone app. I wish I could use personal capital, but it doesn't seem to work for Canadians. Bummer.

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2015, 03:55:40 PM »
my issue is on the website... i dont generally use the phone app.

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2015, 04:51:02 PM »
I've had some problems with Mint also.  One time it actually counted one investment account twice!  I just deleted one of them.  I also sometimes have a problem with some accounts not updating.  I usually just use it to kind of keep track how my investment accounts are doing at a glance.  I guess because it is free, I can't complain too much.

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Re: Question about Mint
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2015, 05:16:03 PM »
I use it for expense tracking and the budget function, but don't actually track investments. Tried that, but there was always a connectivity issue with this and that. More trouble than it was worth. I keep an Excel Worksheet that does all my Net Worth, Investments, projections instead.

 

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