Patzer has other ideas for connecting Mint and TurboTax as well: "What I want to do is to take your stock transactions and everything you've tagged in Mint as a medical expense or business expense and push that over to see if you should itemize deductions. If we pull in your 1099s and deductions, we have done half your taxes for you. We could reduce the time it takes you to do your taxes to 20 minutes or less."
"Mint's Aaron Patzer: "We Will End-Of-Life Quicken Online" In Six to Nine Months" [TechCrunch]
]]>@qwerty001984: I thought e-filing was made free last year.
]]>Mint would be amazing IF you could adjust your "month" to begin when you ACTUALLY GET PAID. My husband and I get paid once a month (close to the end of the month) and we basically pay all of our bills the last week of the month. So, our month begins on the 21st, for example and extends through the 21st of the following month. Mint doesn't begin to calculate our "monthly" expenses until the first and this function CANNOT BE CHANGED. The graphs, spending habits, etc. were useless to us because it would calculate half of what we would spend at the end of the month and then reset our allowances on the 1st of the month.
People have complained about this on the mint.com message boards to no avail.
]]>Having said that, I'm optimistic about this entire mash up of companies. I've heard nothing but amazing things about Mint, and had such good experiences with Quicken Online, that I believe they are going to be able to deliver a solid product.
As someone stated a while back in another posting about this - the biggest downside is the lack of competition. This could hurt progress and innovation.
]]>I miss Microsoft Money
]]>All of the information Mint sucks in from your banks is available to you through other means, i.e. from your bank's website or the statements that they mail you ever month. They wouldn't be holding anything hostage other than perhaps the benefit you derive from using their service, which you could say of any paid service.
]]>I wouldn't mind paying a couple of dollars a month, it's such a great tool it'd be worth it. Nothing has ever worked as well for me as Mint does.
]]>Possibly because I'm a sucker for pretty colors. Yep.
Quicken could also teach Mint a thing or two about auto-renaming, though I haven't used QO enough to know whether it's any good at that.
]]>I prefer Quicken's checkbook-like feature that let's me track upcoming withdrawals, but Mint has a much smoother interface and better transaction recognition.
Let's hope it's a best-of-both-worlds scenario.
]]>@zandar:
I pay for online submission of my taxes. If doing it with quicken and my mint accound makes it easier I would certainly do that.
I think it is a great idea to be able to use what you tag in mint and automatically do your deductions.
I mean, other than an increase in sales of Turbo Tax. (I'm guessing their deductions piece would only work electronically with Turbo Tax.)
Mint email offer to sign up for a "premier" account subscription in 3..2..
]]>and uncle murphy told me that they'll use Quickens web app and Mint's iPhone app.
]]>Good things about Mint:
Better web app
Can they please merge these lists for me?
]]>It'll be interesting to see what happens to that site. Intuit seemed to eff up quicken online pretty well, so we'll see if they do the same to mint.
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