I’ve previously written about Quicken Online and Wesabe as these are the best money management sites currently available to Canadians. Well that may all change in early 2010 if Mint adds support for Canadian banks and users. Aaron Patzer, the Founder and CEO of Mint Software Inc., recently told VentureBeat that “Canada and the U.K. would definitely be the first. I would like to say early next year.”
Since 2007, I’ve been looking for Mint to branch out into Canada. It will require some effort for Mint to add the Canadian banks and deal with a different set of privacy laws. On top of that, they’ll have less to gain for these efforts due to our comparatively smaller market. That said, Mint will need to expand to other countries, including Canada, in order to continue it’s growth.
Being Canadian, I can’t give you my own personal review of Mint. However, here are some great articles about Mint.com so that you can see what all the fuss is about!
Mint’s Fresh Take on Personal Finance – BusinessWeek
Mint: A Fresh New On-Line Personal Finance Tool – Get Rich Slowly
Why I Use Mint.com – The Oblivious Investor
Mint.com Review – Personal Finance Software Reviews
Mint and Wesabe: Online Personal Finance Tools Are Gaining Ground – The Digerati Life
- Secrets of the Up and Coming Adsense Guru - Randy Marasigan
- Polycom Redefines Desktop Communications with Launch of VVX 1500 Business Media Phone
- A New Way to Consider Personal Finance
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I am a Canadian living in America and I must say that Mint is unbelievable for me and I can’t wait for it to include Canadian banks. I don’t know if this will allow you to be logged in with both American and Canadian banks simultaneously but if it did, it would be the most incredible thing in the world since I have banks in both countries. Even now, Mint is the best application of this type by far as it tells me in detail (and an easy to read/use format) what my monthly expenses are and breaks them down.
I am aware that Quicken online does something similar but I Intuit formats aesthetically and intuitively less appealing.
To me, it looks like Quicken has somehow struck a deal with mint.com since their online money management tool has the Mint.com branding on it. It may be good news!
Your right Alex. I mentioned it since this article that Intuit has bought Mint. Hopefully this will help Mint become available to Canadians, although nothing has been announced yet.
The acquistion Mint.com offers great promise, but Intuit has (temporaily) locked out Canadians duign the cutover period.
Trying to log in to Quicken Online now redirects me to mint.com which currently does not permit Canadians to register for an account. Although it appears Canadians will eventually (soon?) be able to register for Mint.com, there is no current replacement option for Quicken Online for Canadians.