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Rudder - navigating your personal finances in your email
The nice thing about Rudder is you can add multiple accounts like your credit cards, checking/savings accounts from other banks and roll them into your Rudder account so everything is all in one place. Each morning, you get an account update of all your finances in your email.
Rudder also reminds you when your bills are due and tells you to pay them. If you heed the reminders, you might be able to stave off those $39 late fees on your credit card bills.
Each daily activity report provides you with reminders of which bills are due, an activity feed of account transactions, account balances, and then tells you what's left. The What's Left feature looks into the future and does the math based on your upcoming bills, future paydays and calculates the statement balance for your credit cards. You then get a nice picture of your what you can spend or save after your bills are factored in.
Rudder isn't Quicken or Mint.com. It doesn't have cool categorization features or fancy pie charts and it doesn't compare your spending with others in different cities. It does, however, provide a nice way to keep tabs on your personal finances all in a nice email delivered daily to your inbox.
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Daniel said 10:24AM on 9-13-2008
all these money management website seem great (like Mint.com also) but they are always restricted to US residents, as they never work with other banks abroad... Maybe someone can tell me of something similar which would work with German banks for example?
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THE11thROCK said 12:40PM on 9-15-2008
Yeah, that would also be true for Philippine residents too. Why restrict it to US only?
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willy said 2:27PM on 9-15-2008
my guess because a lot of the banking data can not be store in an oversea data center, or can not access by 3rd party. I know some company in Canada/German doesn't allow data store/access in US.
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Paul said 5:58PM on 9-16-2008
Mint.com is great. I will check this out too.
I'm not really sure why they don't offer these for other country bank accounts. I would love to check my swiss bank account from one of these sites. haha.
I'm not sure why the US doesn't do email money transfers either. My Canadian friends swear by it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Money_Transfer
I'm sure we will see others jumping on the bandwagon.
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opersai said 11:29PM on 9-21-2008
Sounds like good service, but I'm concerned about security of sending and storing my financial information via email. Could the editor or reader here tell me, how safe or dangerous that would be? Thanks.
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