[ale] MS Money Alternative (was error booting XP after dual boot install of Ubuntu 7.10)

Matt Kubilus mattkubilus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 12:20:05 EDT 2008


One thing to watch out for with GNUCash, is that it does not properly
handle duplicate entries.  If you download your bank transactions,
upload them into GNUCash, and then do this again the next day, there
will be duplicates.

This pretty much make GNUCash useless for syncing with a bank account.
 Perhaps it's great for manually adding transactions, but I have other
more important things to do.

-Matt

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:17 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mint and Yodlee use the same authentication system. It is the same
>  authentication system used by most banks. Maybe the two sites have
>  different goals, but I haven't been impressed enough with Mint to give
>  another web based system a try.
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Matt Kubilus <mattkubilus at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > I don't know about mint, but...
>  >  I have yodlee setup with bugdets.  It auto updates my accounts,
>  >  categorizes the transactions, sends me email alerts when i'm nearing
>  >  thresholds.  I can login see what I've spent where, graph my income to
>  >  expenses over time, keep track of my net worth.
>  >
>  >  I think I could setup auto-bill pay, but I guess I'm just lazy.
>  >
>  >  It can take a little bit of setting up, but is far more convenient
>  >  than any of the local options I've used.
>  >
>  >  I'll admit the ms money has better charting options, but that pretty
>  >  much goes for all the other options.  In fact, I could download all my
>  >  transactions if I really needed more charting, but I find the built in
>  >  stuff good enough for my needs.
>  >
>  >  There are other online finance apps, but I would be a little careful.
>  >  Yodlee is the only one I'm aware of that actually is used by financial
>  >  organizations as their portal interface.
>  >
>  >  -Matt
>
>
>
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>
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