Yodlee Moneycenter for tracking your personal finances vs. Mint or Geezeo or Wesabe or Mvelopes or Quicken

January 29, 2008 by Slug · 5 Comments
Filed under: Tracking

There’s been several articles recently about tracking your personal finances online (article 1, article 2). They mention a wide variety of personal finance tracking sites including:

http://www.quickenonline.com/ (which charges)
http://www.mvelopes.com/ (which charges)
http://www.geezeo.com/
http://www.wesabe.com/ (SHUT DOWN)
http://www.mint.com/ (BOUGHT BY INTUIT)

However, none of the articles I’ve seen have mentioned Yodlee Moneycenter, which I’ve been using for almost a year now. There’s no cost for the basic service and there’s no ads.

Here’s the spiel of offerings in Yodlee’s own words:

Key Yodlee MoneyCenter Features:
Account Consolidation – from over 8,000 financial, bill and rewards accounts
Personal Data Reports – such as a net worth statement, cash flow report, and historical account balances
Expense Categorization – for all credit card and bank account transactions
Budgeting – including spending analysis, goal vs. actual and business related reports and charts
Automatic Check Register – includes future, projected cash flows based on scheduled payments and transactions
Bill Pay – including card payments and “same day” payment credit for consumers
Account-to-Account Funds Transfers – the easiest, quickest way to move money between any two financial accounts
Universal Portfolio Tracker – with quotes, company profiles, and historical portfolio performance and asset allocation charts

On Yodlee, I basically track everything I can. Read more

Tags: Geezeo, Mint, Mvelopes, Wesabe, Yodlee

A Review of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union Platinum Cash Rewards Credit Card

January 25, 2008 by Slug · 1 Comment
Filed under: Credit Cards

Meet my new credit card: PenFed VISA Platinum Gas / Cash Rewards Card. The rewards: 5% back on gas, 2% 1% on groceries, and ~~1.25%~~ 1% on all other purchases. Wow, just wow. I'm very pleased. Not only this, but if you want your account set up for autopay, they will automatically pull the cash from your account 5 days after the close of the billing cycle instead of pulling it on the actual bill due date. That's an extra 5 days of interest you're getting on the float! If you're interested in getting this card, I found out about it here.

Tags: Pentagon Federal Credit Union, rewards