Interactive web-based Budgeting Utility from BudgetPulse

Finance, Money May 22nd, 2008

BudgetPulse is a financial management service designed to help track your budget and manage your money. Besides tracking expenses, assets and bills against income, it helps to build an ideal budget by laying down milestones in expenses at regular intervals. This makes BudgetPulse key for smart spending and saving based on your earnings.

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Key Features

  1. Multiple Accounts - Able to manage different accounts, e.g. Saving, Visa, Checking Account.
  2. Money Tracking - Easy transaction recording for Income, Assets, Loans, Expenses and Investments.
  3. Data Analysis and Charting -All data can be analyzed and displayed on interactive charts.
  4. Budget Planning - You can plan your spending budget on a weekly or monthly basis.
  5. Comprehensive Reports - Shows monthly income and expense summary.

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Organize all your receipts with Shoeboxed

Finance, Money April 18th, 2008

Shoeboxed is a free web site where you can store and organize all your receipts. Digital receipts are extremely useful, but scanning all that paper can be very time-consuming. To save you time, we can scan your receipts for you through our Receipt Mail-In program.

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What Shoeboxed do for you
On Shoeboxed, you will find many free tools for organizing your receipts online

  1. Easy aggregation of all your scanned and email receipts
  2. Export functionality for Quicken, Excel, CSV, and PDF expense reports
  3. Automatically generated statistics about your spending
  4. Powerful blocker of spammy emails

Shoeboxed also have an innovative service called Receipt Mail-In

  1. Mail us your receipts, we’ll scan them in to your account
  2. Get your original receipts back
  3. 30 day money-back guarantee - Try at no risk!
  4. $19.95/month, free shipping!

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SmartyPig helps you save for a specific goal

Finance, Money April 18th, 2008

SmartyPig is a simple, smart, fun way to save for a specific goal. Using groundbreaking technology and the latest in security standards, SmartyPig allows you to invite family and friends to contribute to your account, gives you additional incentive boosts from top retailers who sell exactly what you’re saving for AND *4.30% (APY) interest on the money you’re saving.

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Before you start, here’s what you need to know

  1. SmartyPig.com is tested and certified daily to pass the HACKER SAFE® Security Scan. HACKER SAFE® is the world’s leading provider of website security services and probes SmartyPig.com daily for known vulnerabilities. SmartyPig.com utilizes the most trusted and secure option for SSL, VeriSign® True 128-bit Extended Validation SSL.
  2. SmartyPig is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.
  3. Opening, funding and redeeming a goal with SmartyPig is absolutely FREE. SmartyPig customers may also make contributions to other users’ goals or buy SmartyPig gift cards at NO cost if they use their existing SmartyPig funding source.
  4. The minimum requirement for a savings goal is $250. The maximum amount for a savings goal is $100,000.
  5. There is a minimum deposit of $25 needed to start a savings goal. There is a maximum deposit limit of $10,000 in a 24-hour period to any savings goal, including contributions made to other SmartyPig account holders’ savings goals.

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Clever money management service from Mint.com

Finance, Money April 13th, 2008

Mint.com is an intelligent way for you to manage your money online. Not only is Mint free, it saves you money. While existing personal finance software packages require hours to set up, a passion for accounting (is that possible?) and hours of weekly maintenance, Mint is virtually effortless.

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Here’s how Mint can help you:

  1. Eliminate the need to manage multiple Web sites to get a comprehensive view of your personal finances. Mint.com connects securely with more than 5,000 US financial institutions.
  2. Once your accounts are added, Mint.com retrieves new transactions and balances from your bank, credit card and investment accounts automatically, every day.
  3. Mint.com automatically categorize your transactions to make it easy to see how much you’re spending on food, gas, groceries, entertainment, and more.
  4. Cash purchases can be a blind spot when you’re trying to create a budget. Mint users can split ATM withdrawals into categories to show where the cash was actually spent. Mint budget software also automatically detects ATM fees and will categorize the fee portion of the transaction for you.