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Originally Posted by KevB
Do you find it a hassle to enter all of your transactions, instead of sync'ing via your bank like Mint.com? I'm concerned that my wife or I will lose focus, not enter for several days and then let it slip away.
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Well, you can download/import transactions, but I just enter them. They've got iPhone and Android apps for entering stuff on-the-go which I use a lot. Everything syncs via Dropbox. The nice thing about the mobile apps is that they use GPS and will remember stuff.
For example, I go to the gas station and put gas in the car. Before I leave, I pull up the mobile app and enter the amount, the name of the gas station, and mark it with our budget category for gas. Then the next time I go to that same gas station, when I pull up the mobile app, it knows (via GPS) that I'm at that same gas station so it will automatically fill in the name of the gas station and the budget category. I just have to enter the amount. Takes just a couple of seconds. The same holds true for the grocery store, etc. Really convenient.
Really though, even entering stuff in the software on the computer is easy enough in my opinion. I guess we don't have a LOT of transactions, probably no more than 3-5 per day on average, but it really doesn't take me a lot of time. My wife doesn't enter anything at all. She's more of the free spirit.
But she's liked the results with our money situation though, so she's really good at getting receipts for everything and giving them to me to enter.