Mint vs. competition

[ricomyer]

I've just researched 4 similar services as this and here is what I've determined:

1. 1 site had no description of its features...bah forget it!
2. Wasabe is nothing compared to this.
3. Quicken online was comparable...here are the things I liked about both:

Mint advantages over Quicken:
budgeting tools
sub categories
split transactions
free
prettier
connected with more accounts

Quicken advantages:
creating my own categories
enter pending checks not cashed

Problem is those 2 Quicken advantages are biggies. All these "free" checking accounts have HUGE overdraft fees, and if I can't enter pending checks I'm gonna go over.

Mint has been REALLY easy to set up, only 1 account didn't register but it didn't at other sites either. I'll try later.

Couple Mint things that seemed useless:

1. Labels...not explained well what they are for and don't seem very maintainable over time. Better to create own categories as has been suggested hundreds of times I'm sure.
2. Comparing my spending to other cities averages? Sounds cool but people are soooo different I can't imagine this would ever be useful to anyone.

As a fellow software engineer, I'm rooting for you Mint! A couple more features and this will kick butt over everybody else.

p.s. the forums were hard to find too...

[MWWeston]

I am currently testing a few products. Mint has everything I need except....

the ability to enter my own pending transactions. Without this ability in Mint, I ultimately will need to choose quicken.

I really like other aspects of Mint better, but this is a critical feature of any financial software package. Otherwise, you still need to keep a separate check register.