Comments on: Budgeting Tools

By: Mr. Debtbeater

Mr. Debtbeater — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:38:59 +0000

I’m definitely an Excel guy too, but I’m not opposed to eventually getting on board with one of the online sites as a secondary tool. I mostly like Excel because I’m pretty good at formulas from using it for so many years, but I’ve also had a couple of multi-day Internet outages that would have made exclusively online budgets very annoying. I think at best I’ll end up looking at reporting that they can do and/or look for things I can mimic in my spreadsheets.

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By: Future Millionaire

Future Millionaire — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:53:35 +0000

Personally I’m a Wesabe fan. I used to use an excel sheet until discovering Wesabe and now I’m sold. I love being able to set the rules so every thing’s already categorize, I love being able to access if from any computer, I like being able to re-categorize in a second and look at the same info sliced and diced ten different ways, and I really like how you can keep track of how much money is left in each of your budget categories.

As for the safety concerns about your financial data being accessed, I was really worried about that too, and did a lot of research before signing up. Wesabe unlike the others (mint etc) don’t access your financial institute, you manually create the data for import and it does not retain your account numbers, your passwords or any other personal data. It only keeps track of your transactions.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:39:02 +0000

I just checked out the Billeo web-site and looked at the tour – I’m definately going to have to try this out. Thanks for tip Money Maven!

By: Money Maven

Money Maven — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:01:21 +0000

You might want to also try Billeo.com. Billeo is a free service that keeps track of your online transactions and passwords. I use Billeo for every online payment or purchase i make. They keep records of every transaction online with one click, so you don’t have to print out pesky confirmation e-mails. I was able to use these records for my taxes this year too – as i pay most of my monthly bills online.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:41:32 +0000

I agree with you 100% – Excel all the way. It’s tailored to your needs, it does exactly what you want it to do, you know exactly what’s going on. It’s perfect.

I’ve tried Quicken before – what a hassle.

I am signed up for Mint – I like to look at it now and again, but it too is a hassle if it doesn’t know how to categorize things, but it does have rules that you can set which makes it easier. But in the end, it’s nothing more than some graphs to look at. And you also can’t have loans included in Mint yet.