We recommended Mint.com as a good option for keeping track of your finances. Mint recently rolled out Bill Reminders. But this doesn’t compare to beta service Manilla. Manilla, owned by the Hearst Corporation, consolidates your financial statements into one account. It will send email/text reminders to remind you when bills are due, allow you to view full statements through the site. The company hopes to offer a less expensive alternative to paper bills. U.S. businesses send 48 billion account notices statements and bills each year, and this can cost up to 75 cents per bill, which adds up. It’s closest More…
Be One of The People Paying their Credit Card Bills On Time August 17, 2011
Late Credit Card Payments are the lowest they’ve been in seventeen years. This is despite an increase in the use of credit cards. People are cutting back on the number of cards they carry and accumulating less debt in general. Credit cards are great…if you pay them off. It is often too easy to lose track of how many money you have because you can spend much more with a credit card. As long as you pay off the bill by the due date, a credit card is essentially a short-term loan. The downsides only come when you can’t pay. More…
Start with Mint August 8, 2011
We have several different personalities who will be contributing to Dealy Planet, but I wanted to start out talking about my recent attempts to get my own finances organized. Like many, I procrastinated.about this, telling myself I’d get organized when I had some money. Then I realized one simple truth. If I didn’t get organized, I’d never have any money. You can’t instinctively keep track of your finances. Well, maybe YOU can…but I can’t. So, as the title says…Start With Mint. Mint is a web-based personal finance management service available in the United States and Canada, and is a subsidiary More…