ER: Account Statement PDFs

[Cdespinosa]

I've almost totally eliminated paper account statements from my banks, brokers, utilities, and credit card companies. Each month every one sends me an email, I go to their website, and download the account statement as a PDF.

Wouldn't be cool if Mint did this for me, and just kept a bucket of PDFs in my account for me to view? Even better -- download them all at once in one big zip file, so I don't have to visit 19 websites every month?

[EDALBNUG]

It will add tremendous amounts of bandwidth and storage cost to Mint for sure. Maybe just consolidate all the links to one place would work too.

[janie_super@yahoo.com]

congrats on going paperless CD!!

now try going pdf-less!

I am mostly paperless and pdf-less. I rely on the transactions in mint to tell me whats going on, as well as my own mind. If ive had a very busy time with one credit card, i download that statement but i don't file it. I don't need each pdf each month because I dont use every card each month, just one or two. When i pay my bills online, i monitor my statement but i never download it. Once I look at it, why would I need it?? Keep in mind that when you open your statement to look at it, it will download to your temp file unless you save elsewhere. So there isnt much more work in downloading it and viewing it, if you do it right then and there.

your banks will keep your statements ready to download for at least 6 mo to a year, and if you need earlier you can just request it.

I think you are asking mint to do too much, and in fact creating a situation where mint can fail and potentially lose confidential information.

so im sorry but i have to vote no on this suggestion

J

[mburdsall]

I agree with the others that this should not be part of the business model for MINT. There is no real value added by Mint providing this feature. There are more important areas that Mint should focus there resources for a greater return to the users. Manual transactions would be one area.