Ben... you had the option of going to USAA before and you didn't?

Excuse me, I'll be off in the corner laughing.

BTW, USAA isn't a bank. It's a state of mind, of incredibly awesome service and great rates. I loooooooove USAA's service.

there appears to be numerous apps out there that'll convert a .qif (Quicken file) to a .csv file. Seems easier.

Hey, Ben,

Thanks for the mention. (I'm the CEO of Wesabe.) We've made export much easier since that post. You can export an Excel or Google spreadsheet (or CSV, OFX, or QIF file) from any account on the Accounts index, or from any account, tag, or merchant detail page. Just click the "Export" menu at the bottom of your transaction list.

Hope this helps.

Marc Hedlund, Wesabe

USAA actually has a pretty good website (for what I consider to be a credit union on steroids). Most traditional credit unions have pretty horrible websites.

@BuddyGuyMontag: Ditto- for me it's like having an extra parent. They give great advice and do everything but give you hugs and stroke your hair saying, "I'll make it all better, don't worry". I call them for anything financial or insurance-wise in nature.

Don't try using mint with paypal though, I tried it and paypal locked down my entire account with them until I did a verification. Needless to say before doing that I removed it from mint to prevent a recurrence and soon afterward stopped using mint since if they're triggering security alarms even at paypal which is paranoid at best then I don't want to be using them.

@LindsayC: Love Love Love USAA. I bet that if you asked them to give you a hug and stroke your hair, they would. They are that awesome.

@marcwesabe: Hey, do you guys work with Key Bank? I'm currently using Mint, and it keeps locking out my key bank account, currently I get around it by not letting the two talk to each other.

@BuddyGuyMontag: One time USAA rescued a cat for me. And it wasn't even my cat! That's how great they are.

Key Bank does not allow mint.com to access your data. In fact, when mint tries your online access to key.com gets blocked.

Just an fyi for those of you using Key Bank.

USAA is definitely the way to go, you can call them any time, they'll work with you to fix anything, Deposit@Home, mobile access, what else can you ask for? I've moved all my accounts to them except for my mortgage which I will if I ever re-fi...

Losing the .xls function temporarily is a small price to pay for the awesomeness of USAA. Note I said temporarily because I bet they'll see this post and add the function in the near future... just wait and see

Hey, it's great that USAA is great and all, but are there any good banks that don't require you or a blood relative/spouse to be in the military? Or do you just get a kick out of talking about how wonderful it is to people who aren't eligible?

@JTK: I share your concern. I just can't bring myself to share my online banking info (which is surrounded by its own layers of strong security) with a new web site where I know little about what's behind its curtain. Too much risk. An "oops" will be too late.

Ben, are you sure that you've never been able to get account data from USAA in an open format? I have the option of exporting a "Comma-Delimited (CSV)" file underneath the list of transactions in my checking account using the "Export Account Activity" feature, along with QIF for Quicken and Money. You may want to look again.

Once again I'm going to strongly recommend "Yodlee MoneyCenter. I've been using it for a while now (year and a half or so). It has access to everything mint.com has plus some (plus quite a bit from a quick search). Yodlee is a service provider to mint to some degree, I'm not exactly sure what their role is though, maybe the backend?)

I just tried to export to Excel, and it worked perfectly, and all I had to do was click the "Export" link on the bottom of the page.

Definitely worth checking into!!

@12-Inch Idongivafuck Sandwich: That wasn't supposed to be a reply to "youbastid"...stupid new comment system

@B: We do support KeyBank, but we don't yet have automatic upload for them, and you'll want that. You have three options with Wesabe: (1) just manually upload a file every time you want to update, which works but is a pain; (2) use our Firefox Uploader to record an upload once, and it will do that for you automatically from them on; or (3) drop us a line a support at wesabe dot come and say, "I have KeyBank and I want to help add support for it to the auto uploader," and we'll take care of it with your help.

Hope this helps.

USAA recently expanded it's membership deal, but yeah, it's pretty much military families.

I also love, love , love USAA. Customer service is awesome. It's too bad that it's only open to military and families.
I hear that the military is hiring right now....

Huuuuge USAA fanboy here. Love everything about them. Especially love my prime + zero credit card rate and deposit @ home. I pity those who are USAA eligible but don't take advantage.

I've had a USAA account (mutual funds) forever. I'm not in the military. And I have access to all the perks that USAA offers.

I found Mint to be about useless.

I got notifications of things in my bank account almost two weeks after they had occurred. For doing other things Mint might be great, but for relying on email alerts, it's garbage as far as I am concerned.

The Best decision I ever made was to switch to USAA, I have never had a problem other than mistakes I have made. Do wish Mint could sink with it.

I've had a USAA checking account for a few months now, my car insurance has been with them since I was 16 and called to talk to them and they convinced me to open a checking account, but I didn't use it. I had been using Wachovia, but since I'm not sure I can trust their board members or Citi's I am going to start using USAA.

I like the fact that they actually give you the option to talk to a person when you call them about anything.

USAA... I love USAA. I've been with them since 1997 and when they had the old PC based online banking. I was one of their beta testers on their web access banking a year before it went into production.

Their customer service and everything about them is just terrific. I hope they never do anything that changes their current practices/focus.

I also have Wachovia and a Citibank Credit Card. I only use Wachovia for small dollar budget based accounts (e.g., groceries, gas, etc.) so I'm not too concerned about the takeover, but if Citibank messes up the terms of our accounts, I'm leaving them.

@BuddyGuyMontag: USAA is the greatest company ever. I have my home, life, and car insurance through them as well as my IRA, HELOC, and two car loans. The only thing I don't do is bank, but they claim they refund ATM fees, so that is tempting.

Not impressed with Mint at all. Tried loading in my USAA accounts (one of 6 worked!), PNC (1 of 3 worked), Chase (0 of 1 worked). I seem to be on a roll here.....