Mint.com UK Equivalent?

tombeverley

Hi,

I work at Confused.com and we're building a Mint.com like solution for the UK. It launches in May 2011. For early access go to confused.com/pfm/personal-finance-software to sign up. We'll send you an early invite in April, all going well.

The product will have most, although not all, of the features people love on Mint.com.

Thanks,

Tom Beverley
Head of Nugget | Confused.com

nottRobin

I took a look at LoveMoney, Xero and MoneyDashboard, but they all seemed to lack something - LoveMoney was a bit too complex. Xero didn't seem special enough to warrant the expense. MoneyDashboard uses Silverlight!

I've settled on https://money.strands.com/ (MoneyStrands). It was really easy to set up to start with. I haven't been using it long, so it might yet suck, but so far it's successfully added all my accounts and credit cards, including Nationwide. So I'm quite impressed.

karlos2009

I've been looking for a UK friendly mint.com type solution for some time now and it seems they're very thin on the ground.

I tried Money Dashboard first - it's the most extensive one I've seen so far but it does have some oddities - it users MS Silverlight, which is painfully slow and clunky. It also shows your passwords etc in plain text, which is somewhat off-putting. Has the potential to be good, and from what I've read it has some big-money financial backers on the board.

Love Money is similar, and looks and feels far more polished and secure. Unfortunately it's let down by poor features - it seems like it's not really being pushed as their main product. It also has issues determining what you're actually spending money on (trips to Sainsburys are oddly classed as 'Life Insurance'!).

First Direct (my bank) also offer their version which allows you to view all your accounts in one place. Sadly, it's terrible, as it doesn't seem you can do anything but look at it!

I noticed the post for moneyStrands earlier on, unfortunately it looks like another US company so I'm a little reluctant to try it out for fear of them losing interest in the UK market (such as the likes of Quicken or the new owners of Mint.com).

So, to summarise. Not a fat lot really. Although this venture by confused.com could be what everyone is waiting for...

karlos2009

Just a quick update on Money Strands, it's a US company but they've recently opened offices in Spain, so promising for the European market. On the downside, their servers went down midway through me signing up and haven't been able to get back on since. Great.

CockneyBrum

Looks like a refresh of Halifax Online banking will finally kill off MS Money support.

So, I'm looking to the internet to replace it.

Does anyone know if any of these cloud services offer the ability to import from MS Money? I have over 15 years worth of account data which I'd like to pull in.

Any help appreciated.

DarkHorse

mbanbrook wrote: »

Looks like a refresh of Halifax Online banking will finally kill off MS Money support.

So, I'm looking to the internet to replace it.

Does anyone know if any of these cloud services offer the ability to import from MS Money? I have over 15 years worth of account data which I'd like to pull in.

Any help appreciated.

I am in much of the same situation as you, as I have been using MS Money for may years. I have been using LoveMoney recently, which is good, but nowhere as versatile as MS Money.

dfw844

DarkHorse wrote: »

I am in much of the same situation as you, as I have been using MS Money for may years. I have been using LoveMoney recently, which is good, but nowhere as versatile as MS Money.

Me too! Been using Money for years, have loads of data in there. I would really like to use Mint! I hope they bring it to the UK. I have been to their help pages and registered my request, as it says above. I would love if you could import Money files. But, to be honest, I'd start afresh if it meant online usage and an iphone app.

spider31

I have used MS Money for years (maybe as much as 10)

Once Nationwide stop background banking I closed my nationwide account and opened a First direct one

I look at web based versions of MS Money.

I had a go with MoneyStrands, it worked very well (used it for a few years) :

Good :
Updates in the background with most banks (does this automatically)
You can create custom categories
*Budgeting (This was added recently)
IPhone Version

Bad :
They started to charge
They stopped the service that allows you to update your account (so technical, its no got at all now, they say this will come back... is this a legal issue as they are now charging ??? )
Its all flash
No IPad version


So... I look at LoveMoney. This is very simple and makes good use of modern web tech.. things like JQuery

Good :
Works on the Ipad (via the web)
Very simply
The category system is very simple.. you just mark a category as : Income, Bill, Disposable, Saving or Ignore.. it uses this for the analysis.
The tech feels right like it will get better as the add to it.
Bad :
Cannot create custom categories (but.... the I am pondering the question of ... do I need this? )
You have to refresh when you login, can take time to see the balance.
No Apps (yet.. I am sure this will come)

A little slow.

I thought... should I just stop with lovemoney ? I google LoveMoney vs and I found moneydashboard.

First off, I agree an early post it does not feel that secure. It has mixed content and the fact that it emails you your password.. that’s just not done these days. but..

Good.
mmmm... thinking...
you can download transactions... but they all do this

Bad

Its silverlight.. now... I do like Silverlight I create apps for this as part of my job but not for public facing content... HTML is the way... HTML5 with JQuery + CCS3

The category system is not as polished as lovemoney
Cannot add custom categories.

nlamont

I've been on Moneystrands for a while. When I first joined I really liked it - I'd tried Moneydashboard for a month or two but found it too slow to be usable. There were some other things I disliked but it was mainly the speed. Moneystrands seemed excellent and I even subscribed to their premium model. However ...

The support they offer is feeble. They have a support forum that has no 'new topic' button or link! The last post on their 'Features Requests' forum was 18 months ago and there's no way to add a new one. So they must have discontinued it. There is an email address to write to, which I did, to ask about the forum, but nobody replied. I was also considering changing my bank account from Nationwide to Co-operative, and had seen various mentions that Co-op wasn't supported so I wrote to them and was told that they'd never heard of Co-operative before! They suggested if I wanted to change accounts I do so and try it out and, if automatic connections didn't work, just use manual connections. Further emails just resulted in no response or cut-and-past responses.


Then a month or so ago I went in and the automatic download of statements was disabled (it took quite a while to find that information, they don't exactly warn you). Although it says it's temporary there are no announcements or updates on their site. I wonder if it's going down the pan as they don't seem to be updating customers at all.

Finally today it was unable to even display my accounts due to an ActionScript error every time I go to that page.

BargainGalore

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