

To link your outside accounts, you go through a process of entering the login information and passwords for those accounts.

Setting Up and Signing OnĪll you really need to get started with Mint is an email address, a password and a phone number. Getting Started With Mintīefore you get started, make sure you have your financial information ready to go. Mint does not report official figures on numbers of users, but various published reports peg that number as between 15 and 20 million. Aside from some integrations with Intuit’s software (such as Quicken and TurboTax), the concept behind Mint has not changed much. Since the acquisition, all Quicken online users have been migrated over to Mint.Īt its core, Mint helps people track their money, set budgets, and get smarter with their finances. It was widely reported at the time that Intuit agreed to the purchase because its own software, Quicken, was inferior to Mint. After growing to about 1.5 million users, it was sold to Intuit, the large maker of financial software, for about $170 million. Mint was founded in 2006 in Silicon Valley by entrepreneur Aaron Pratzer.
