That said, Mint is not the right solution to figure out what the balance *will* be five days from now. It’s just a look at past transactions to give you a read on where your money is going and to alert you to changes in your patterns. For example, Mint is all up in my grill about how our “shopping” and “gift” spending is unusual for December. :)

Groceries too. It’s nice that it figures out where the anomalies are and brings them to your attention (even if you probably anticipated the change, seeing the magnitude is important).

@Romal – check my reply to PB and read the link that Benson provides.

@Benson – thank you!

@DeanDMX – sorry, but I’ll ask one of our UK writers to check and comment here if he finds anything.

@Daisy – I have the same issue, but only for a day, maybe two. It’s part of letting go of the need to “manage” everything and just use the service for the trend reporting, budgets and alerts to unusual activity.

@ninom – the only info I could find was a reference to 7500+ financial institutions. Bottom line is this – if the online login system requires captchas, dynamic questions, etc. then it will foil Mint’s attempts to login. My bank rotates a series of 6 personal questions to verify, but Mint knows enough to ask for the answers to all of these when I set up the account. Also, if you’re bank isn’t listed, you can request they add it through their service.

unfortunately, my bank (bank of america) tends to keep a lot of transactions as ‘pending’ for 4-5 days, which means it takes a while for mint to update. i wish there was a way to include these ‘pending’ transactions in mint’s, as they don’t show up at all on the iphone app.