Monitor and Save Save Money With MoneyTrackin'

If it has to do with money, there’s a good chance you’ll find it on MoneyTrackin’, a budgeting and financial planning community that boasts it is “accounting for real people.”

At the core, the Web site lets you log all of your financial transactions (expenses/income) and tag them. This will allow you to better organize, monitor and learn from your spending habits. You can import information directly from your bank or from other popular financial programs.

Recently hitting its “1 millionth” transaction, you can stay informed of your financial situation, knowing at any time, from anywhere, where your money is going.

I can almost hear my wife crying.

Businesses should also take note. MoneyTrackin’ makes it possible to share budgets and collaborate on the same project.

A feature that was recently added is a community map where registered users can mark places that help you save money. Here’s an example from the MoneyTrackin’ Web site:

For instance, there’s an Aldo’s shoe liquidation store not too far from my house, where everything is 50% off the clearance price. We fondly and lovingly refer to it as the Promised Land. It would be the perfect type of store to place on MoneyTrackin’s new map, so others in the area can check it out and save money too.

A public API allows the integration of this feature with third party applications. We can see this coming in really handy for the gazillion FatWallet type sites out there.

There’s also a “moneyhack” element to the site with community members sharing tips and tricks with each other and then voting them up or down.

So find bargains, spend money and track it all – MoneyTrackin’ makes it possible – though not necessarily in that order.

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