Using Wesabe heavily. Love Wesabe. Want to see it evolve even more, particularly the data visualization.
howardlindzon
· 2 years ago
Although this service Is not something I use yet, I do believe you are right and the young people love one of these three services. This is a big market at least in terms of potential acquirers
digiSal
· 2 years ago
Be nice to be able to tell if my bank is available before i sign up. I signed up with Mint only to find out I couldnt use it for checking. :(
Marc Hedlund
· 2 years ago
Hi, digiSal,
I'm one of the founders of Wesabe. We support any bank or credit card that provides a data export in one of the formats we support (currently OFX, QFX, QIF, and OFC). If your bank isn't listed we'll add it immediately. You can always drop me a line at marc@wesabe.com if you need a bank or credit card added right away.
Hope this helps.
digiSal
· 2 years ago
ah, i thought wesabe would pull the data from my bank automatically like Mint is supposed to. Dont like this aspect since i have to download and upload all the time, but my bank was listed.
dan routman
· 2 years ago
It would be great if Wesabe would allow users to segregate information and create reports by tax year so that we can easily access relevant tax information for ourselves or accountants. This is one of the reasons why I used Quicken for the last 16 years. I've switched to Wesabe, but I have (I'm afraid to say) hundreds of entries amongst checking accounts and credit cards. if the only date on which I can segregate 2007 information is January 1, 2008 (i.e. before any 2008 information is downloaded), Wesabe is less useful than it could be. I need to be able to segregate 2007 information in March and April when I'm working on tax returns.
Thanks
Marc Hedlund
· 2 years ago
Hey, dan,
We do already allow you to do this, although it's not obvious how to do so. Our API allows you to get data in any date range you want. You can, for instance, get an Excel spreadsheet containing all of your transactions for the year by putting this at the end of the URL for one of your accounts:
.xls?start_date=20070101&end_date=20071231
As an example, if your American Express card is account number 1 on your Wesabe list, this is the full URL to use:
Thanks for the reply. I may have known about the Excel option but was hoping you would add the date range capability to the website itself. Any chance of that prior to April 15?
Thanks,
Dan
Marc Hedlund
· 2 years ago
Hey, Dan,
Absolutely. We'll add it now.
dan routman
· 2 years ago
Thanks!
Marc Hedlund
· 2 years ago
Hi, Dan,
We've added this. You can now export any date range from the accounts index page, into any of our supported export formats, including Excel. Hope this helps.
Marc
davemc500hats
· 2 years ago
>>This is a very big market opportunity and we think there is room for more than one large company in this category. >>we are very pleased to be an investor... because the things that make the web great; transparency, community, utility, and usability are going to transform the way people manage their money
i absolutely agree fred :)
- dave mcclure
Nathan Bowers
· 2 years ago
It's time to break Intuit's back and assign it to the scrap heap. Best wishes to Wesabe, Mint, and everyone building financial management software that doesn't suck.
Anyone heard about the latest Intuit nightmare? An bug in the update to the Mac version of Quickbooks irrevocably nukes all files and folders on the Desktop. http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/17/update-on-the-qu...
matt
· 2 years ago
Wesabe sucks. Big-time.
It's counter-intuitive, documentation is is sparse, and the uploading/mouse-tracking garbage feels like Quicken '99 on mushrooms. Why can't I just give you my info? Ridiculous!
Mint is better, but the upsell opportunities ("lower your interest rate!") are worthless to just about everybody and feel like some mediocre direct marketer went apeshit.
I still cannot fathom in this day and age why people aren't all using Yodlee - it's simple, powerful, links to EVERYTHING (and when a bank changes their website login procedure the Yodlee team updates their functionality usually within a day).
The social aspect is interesting, but the big question for me is is there really any wisdom of the crowds when it comes to personal finance or it is a function of deeper things like personal discipline? Choosing which DVD to buy is a hell of a lot different than getting debt-free.
sawickipedia
· 2 years ago
Tried wesabe earlier this year and found it wanting because if you're bank isn't in the in-crowd your stuck having to use plugins and hacks for importing your data. In the age of mashups and api's I much prefer Mint's solution. Yes Mint is using login's and scraping data ala Yahoo Money circa 2000, but as a user the point of these apps is that they automate and reduce my workload - not increase it.
On a personal note - interesting to see how bets are being placed amongst friends - David Cancel's on Geezeo's board and McClure's an investor/advisor to Mint. I just need an insider at Wesabe to complete the circle.
fredwilson
· 2 years ago
That's me!
pglyman
· 2 years ago
Okay I'll jump in...congrats to Wesabe on the LH post and some of the cool new features recently rolled out. Although I hardly think they've been in the "backseat" from a visibility point of view :-) Probably just mean they're heads down building something cool. hmmmm...what could it be?
It's a great market and I think we should all be pretty fired up about how we're shaking things up. Lets face it, the days of expensive, feature bloated financial software in a box are fading fast and we're all part of the reason why. That's pretty damn cool.
Alright, enough with the mushy shit. See you at the top guys!
All Comments
I'm one of the founders of Wesabe. We support any bank or credit card that provides a data export in one of the formats we support (currently OFX, QFX, QIF, and OFC). If your bank isn't listed we'll add it immediately. You can always drop me a line at marc@wesabe.com if you need a bank or credit card added right away.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
We do already allow you to do this, although it's not obvious how to do so. Our API allows you to get data in any date range you want. You can, for instance, get an Excel spreadsheet containing all of your transactions for the year by putting this at the end of the URL for one of your accounts:
.xls?start_date=20070101&end_date=20071231
As an example, if your American Express card is account number 1 on your Wesabe list, this is the full URL to use:
https://www.wesabe.com/accounts/1.xls?start_dat...
We'll make this a lot easier to find.
Thanks for the reply. I may have known about the Excel option but was hoping you would add the date range capability to the website itself. Any chance of that prior to April 15?
Thanks,
Dan
Absolutely. We'll add it now.
We've added this. You can now export any date range from the accounts index page, into any of our supported export formats, including Excel. Hope this helps.
Marc
>>we are very pleased to be an investor... because the things that make the web great; transparency, community, utility, and usability are going to transform the way people manage their money
i absolutely agree fred :)
- dave mcclure
Anyone heard about the latest Intuit nightmare? An bug in the update to the Mac version of Quickbooks irrevocably nukes all files and folders on the Desktop. http://www.tuaw.com/2007/12/17/update-on-the-qu...
It's counter-intuitive, documentation is is sparse, and the uploading/mouse-tracking garbage feels like Quicken '99 on mushrooms. Why can't I just give you my info? Ridiculous!
Mint is better, but the upsell opportunities ("lower your interest rate!") are worthless to just about everybody and feel like some mediocre direct marketer went apeshit.
I still cannot fathom in this day and age why people aren't all using Yodlee - it's simple, powerful, links to EVERYTHING (and when a bank changes their website login procedure the Yodlee team updates their functionality usually within a day).
The social aspect is interesting, but the big question for me is is there really any wisdom of the crowds when it comes to personal finance or it is a function of deeper things like personal discipline? Choosing which DVD to buy is a hell of a lot different than getting debt-free.
On a personal note - interesting to see how bets are being placed amongst friends - David Cancel's on Geezeo's board and McClure's an investor/advisor to Mint. I just need an insider at Wesabe to complete the circle.
It's a great market and I think we should all be pretty fired up about how we're shaking things up. Lets face it, the days of expensive, feature bloated financial software in a box are fading fast and we're all part of the reason why. That's pretty damn cool.
Alright, enough with the mushy shit. See you at the top guys!