Over a year ago I brought up the possibility of Mint coming to Canada. Then this summer Mint added Canadian banks but some accounts were missing and they still needed to add relevant information for Canadians like RRSPs and TFSAs. Well the official launch of Mint.com in Canada is coming soon!
So what’s new? Is anything still missing? To be honest, I don’t know yet, but that might be where you come in. Since I only have so many bank and credit card accounts I can’t have a look at everything. The account is free, so why not sign up for Mint and try it for yourself after launch and let me know in the comments below what you think of it and where you would like to see improvements.
This Thursday, I’ll be sitting down in person with Aaron Patzer at the Intuit head office (Intuit bought Mint last year) here in Edmonton to ask him about the Canadian launch and what we can expect in the future. So if you have any comments or questions, post them here over the next couple days and I can try to get them answered directly from the founder of Mint and now VP & GM of the Personal Finance Group at Intuit. I’ll excited to do this interview and will post it here on Canadian Finance Blog next Monday!
The other bit of news with Mint’s arrival into Canada is that I’ve agreed to be a writer on the MintLife Blog, where I plan to add some Canadian specific content on a monthly basis. This should be a great opportunity to increase exposure for Canadian Finance Blog and provide Canadian Mint users with blog posts that will apply to them. So check out MintLife this week for my first post!
By the way, this is the 500th post on Canadian Finance Blog, thanks to all the readers that have kept me going since February 2009! Now go try out Mint and let me know any questions you’d like me to ask Aaron!
Update: The official launch didn’t happen today after all, but I’ve heard from the Mint team and it will be coming very soon! I’ve changed some of the wording above. Please continue to let me know what you would like to see added and I’ll bring it up in my interview with Aaron later this week.
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Congratulations on the MintLife writing gig! I can definitely see why they would request your assistance. I look forward to reading about your Intuit interview.
It seems it does not handle ING Direct Checking account. Sad, I’m considering moving away from KMyMoney.
Frédéric, Is that the new Thrive account? I’d also like to know about that one. If PC Financial won’t work for me, I might be interested in moving my chequing to ING.
Still no way to add CIBC accounts, at least that I can find.
Does not handle PC Financial – not impressed for a hard launch.
CIBC and President’s Choice Financial have not worked to date, but I see that PC Financial is now listed and you can try to add it, but it shows an error and won’t load. Can you ask him what’s going on with that? From what I understand, CIBC and PC Financial do not want to allow Mint to download customers’ transaction data. I’d be interested to see what Mr. Patzer has to say about that.
A few of you have mentioned CIBC / PCF, which I’m interested in too. As you mentioned Stewart, this may have more to do with CIBC. It did work for a week or so when they were first added and then CIBC cut the data off. Hopefully some sort of agreement is in the works. I would be happy to sign some sort of release if CIBC is simply trying to protect my privacy.
My question is: what do we as consumers have to do to encourage CIBC and PC FInancial to get on board? Call them, email them, protest?
I was on board to try out Mint – I started adding dozens of accounts then I got to a point where some account I added caused their server to error everytime I pull up my Accounts list. I’ve tried emailing support, they ask for screenshots of very simple errors and even after providing them the shots they stop replying or looking into the issue.
It’s been 2 weeks now and Mint is completely unusable until they remove the offending account that is causing the error.
They need a much better support system that actually responds in a timely manner.
Mint seems to be a great tool… I’d use it more, but it’s missing some of my credit cards which makes it fairly useless since the majority of my purchases occur on my cards as opposed to my bank.
I’ve submitted requests to get the cards added, but all I ever receive are the standard “Canada is not supported by Mint” emails. Oh well….
Now that it’s coming to Canada, I might finally put my Excel spreadsheets into the archives.
Congrats on the writing position over at Mint! Bring some Canadian representation over there for us!
Still does not support BMO Master Card Accounts without a BMO bank account. Long standing problem that has not been resolved.
Just an update to say that PC Financial *is* in fact working, as of today.
You need to make a new account on the site and indicate that you live in Canada when you sign up in order to have all the Canadian stuff available.
I wasn’t able add President’s Choice account in Nov. But, after the official launch, I can successfully add my chequeing account.
Although I can add Sun Life Benefit Access account. The balance is shown as zero.
Can’t add Scotia iTrade Canada.
Can’t add Ally Canada
Can’t add CIBC Visa
Naynesh
Yes, I was able to add PC Financial.
i had an account and now trying the Canadian system i will not let me log in. Resetting my account sends me the link but will not actually reset my password. Trying for two days to get in. cannot find link to real help or email to let them know
Congratulations on your writing gig! That’s exciting.
I just got setup with mint.com now that it’s in Canada and I am quite please with it so far. If it could provide custom accounts (I can’t seem to be able to create an account without an institution), I could almost ditch pre-historic Quicken and move to the cloud
Hi,
Has anyone played with this in the last few weeks? I have CIBC credit card and Scotia bank accounts. Just wondering if they might work now or not.
Thanks in advance,
Just as a follow up.
I signed up to Mint and found CIBC, Scotia Bank but I can’t find Investors Group and from what I can see, you can’t set up a blank account or custom account.
Just as another follow up.
Spent a bunch of hours working with Mint and the biggest issue I found was missing transactions and information that Mint was not able to suck into their application. No point in looking the information if it is not accurate. Also, many people in for forums have issues with disappearing data that was once there and now gone.
Mint also does not have a mass import for past month / year information and only provide a single transaction entry for 1 item at a time.
Read the help forum if you are considering using Mint. Many issues that don’t seem to be resolved.
I don’t recommend it at this time.
Yeah, I just signed up. The site is great in what it provides. Amazing graphs, etc, but I also can’t seem to add my investments from Investors Group. Bit of a disappointment there. I’m sure it will take awhile to get it fully working. I’m looking forward to seeing what else they offer.
I have been using Mint since late 2010 and have noticed a significant problem – they randomly lose transactions. Meaning, one day the transaction is there, the next day, it’s gone without a trace. There has been VERY little in the way of support, I have 3-4 support cases open and no resolutions yet. Without being able to trust the budget data Mint displays, the whole budgeting solution falls apart. Now I have to manually reconcile Mint’s transaction list with my bank’s records (I do this at month’s end) and then I have to add the lost transactions manually into Mint so that my “last month” budget and trends calculate correctly. I am at my wits end because this seems like such a straightforward fix. If you speak again with any of the Mint/Intuit folks, feel free to bring this up. I would like nothing more than to be a happy Mint customer. I, like many on the site, would be happy to pay for this service IF IT WOULD ONLY WORK.
Thanks for letting me rant.
For God’s sake, leave the date and time when the article is written…. so we know whether this article is relevant at this point of time… I spent more than 5 minutes inspecting this page to “find” the date and time – nothing at all…. even the comments dont have a time stamp…. Sorry, but I think its pretty dumb to see that on a finance blog….
i want read in canada