Comments on: Best Personal Financial Software

By: William

William — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:38:18 +0000

I used Expenser till it went “must enter bank login details to proceed”.

I usually enter my transactions both from work and home. After quite some looking and trying, I found http://BudgetFix.net – which is simple, fast and ok on usability.

I would also recommend this website for quite a few good reviews on personal finance software and sites: http://personalfinancesoftwarereviews.com/

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By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:13:03 +0000

I stuck with Quicken Online for a while, since I experienced banking account sync problems. I tried a few, including Mint and Quickbooks’ free tool, but haven’t found anything that fully matches my needs. I’m still evaluating products I found on that site: http://www.all-finance-software.com/expense_management/expense_management1.php.

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:48:50 +0000

Excel probably has more functionality than any other financial software available to consumers. The thing is, without proper training, many people only know how to use basic formulas. However, with the help of macros, you can make Excel do anything you want it. I would look into some free courses or even an inexpensive course at a local college. Once you learn how, you can have excel run any kind of statistic or data output based on your finances.

By: Chris @ BuildMyBudget

Chris @ BuildMyBudget — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:40:05 +0000

Why use unnecessary software when you can get what you need from a free program like Excel. Also, the most important part of budgeting is being able to see where you are headed–which is easy to do in Excel and absent from many popular products such as Mint.com.

By: obsolete29

obsolete29 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:12:17 +0000

I’m a MS Money user myself. I’ve tried a few of the web based sites but I couldn’t find any with the cash flow forecast feature that MS Money has. To me, the cash flow forecast is the single more important feature of the software.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:01:42 +0000

I’ve been using Excel for the last 6 years. Enjoy it and don’t see the necessity of going into more complex stuff. You may generate graphs if you want, i don’t. Good luck every one.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:10:23 +0000

We use Mvelopes. We were using Quicken which my husband detested (and the debt management was wrong. it failed to allow for every 2 week payments, didn’t count introductory interest rate periods). Mvelopes is basically the cash envelope system moved to the computer so really good for explaining to your spouse.

By: J Ro

J Ro — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:55:53 +0000

I use Quicken at home and have been for two years. I think it’s great and the more I learn about its potential the better it gets. The next portion will be my ignorant side talking: I get a little skeptical about having all my financial data accessed by a third party website like Mint.com which is the reason why I have never signed up. The second reason was that I was already using Quicken when I found out about Mint.
Some claim that you have to upgrade Quicken yearly but I haven’t had to do that. I download most of my date and input some manually. I customize my reports to track my spending in relation to the budget I have set aside. I can also track my “net worth” (in terms of my finances and not including all assest), my debt repayment progress and my income to date for the year. The list goes on and on…