I'm having trouble getting my savings to show up correctly on Mint. If I make a category in my budget it marks it as an expense which throws off my net in vs. out. I can't make a new goal unless I open a new savings account which I don't really want to do. Any of you Mint experts have any tips? I don't want to just exclude transfers to the savings account because then I can't see the savings...I don't know, I feel like this should be easier than I'm making it.

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Posted by Teddy Ruxpin

Member since Oct 2006

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Posted on 4/25/12 at 11:04 am to MediTiger

You are kind of hard to follow, but what I'm thinking you are saying is that you are moving money into a savings account that isn't connected to Mint, and therefore, right now the money you put into that account shows up as an expense.

If you don't want to add the savings account, I guess the next best thing to do is just use the "Exclude from Mint" category for money you put into that savings account.

It appears you could also indirectly track that amount by doing a search of your transactions on that category and get a total amount excluded from Mint.

This post was edited on 4/25/12 at 11:06 am

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Posted by rickgrimes

Member since Jan 2011

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Posted on 4/25/12 at 12:14 pm to MediTiger

Post hijack:

I travel quite a bit for work so a lot of time I end up using my credit card for expenses on the trip which get reimbursed later. And I use the same card that I always do, so my personal expenses and work expenses are mixed together. Does Mint handle reimbursements well?

I am thinking unless I use a different credit card for travel, I will end up doing a lot of these expense classifications/categorizing manually. Not to mention the handling the reiubursement itself, when I get the check where I will have to classify it as not income or something