I’ve been using Mint.com now for about 2 years. For those who aren’t aware, Mint.com
is a web based financial management service. You connect it to your checking, savings, credit card, retirement, investment, etc. accounts and all of your information (transactions, balances, etc.) is presented to you on one page. The coolest thing about Mint though is that it has a great design. You can make some pretty cool charts and graphs that allow you to analyze your spending and the service will even text you when you’ve exceeded your budget for the month.
But there’s always been one thing that’s bugged a lot of people: No way to manually add transactions.
This was annoying because of a constant reporting delay. If you wrote a check on Friday, Mint might not know about it until Monday or Tuesday when it was finally cashed. The same problem presented itself for cash transactions. The only way to input purchases was to first deposit cash into a bank account and then go shopping.
No more!
They’ve rolled out an update and you can now enter cash and check transactions as you make them. This makes Mint quite a bit more functional for those who use cash and checks regularly.
To check out the new feature, just login at Mint.com and click “Transactions” and then “Add a Transaction”.
Have fun tracking!
