Buxfer

1. CNET

This review evaluates and compares financial management sites Buxfer, Geezeo, Mint, Quicken Online and Wesabe. Reisinger praises Buxfer for its simplicity, noting that it provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions on how to set up your accounts on its website. However, he criticizes its reports as being too basic to be of much help in managing one's finances. He concludes that "Buxfer is simple and responsive. If you're looking for something basic, it's a great place to start."

Review: Manage Your Money Online with These Services, Don Reisinger, Jan. 22, 2009

2. Kiplinger Personal FinanceDetails/Subscribe

Buxfer is included in this review of the six best budgeting sites. Stacy Rapacon notes that Buxfer is most useful for group budgeting and tracking IOUs among friends. According to her, Buxfer is "P]erfect for roommates or group vacations," and she reports that "you can invite contacts to join and track shared bills (you can even access Buxfer via a Facebook application)."

Review: The Six Best Budgeting Sites, Stacy Rapacon, March 2009

3. Generation X Finance

Lauren Fairbanks likes Buxfer's simple layout, as well as some of its features. She notes that Buxfer allows users to set up budgets, add tags (which function as categories) to transactions, receive an email if they overspend their budget in any category and receive weekly reports by email or text. Like other reviewers, Fairbanks enjoys the fact that users can keep track of people who owe them money, or to whom they owe money and pay IOUs from the Buxfer website. The only downside she notes is that there aren't many different types of reports.

Review: Wesabe, Buxfer and Mint: Which Web-Based Financial Management Site Is Best?, Lauren Fairbanks, Sept. 10, 2008