Import from Mint

How to import your historical Mint transaction data into Forbidden Finance using a CSV export.

Overview

If you used Mint before it shut down, you can import your exported transaction history into Forbidden Finance. Mint provided a CSV export option that included dates, descriptions, amounts, categories, and account names. Forbidden Finance auto-detects the Mint format and maps the data automatically, including Mint's "Transaction Type" column that determines whether an amount is a debit or credit.

How to Export from Mint

Mint's export feature was available before the service shut down. If you already have your Mint CSV export file, skip ahead to the import steps.

Locate your Mint export

If you downloaded your data before Mint closed, look for a file named transactions.csv in your downloads folder or wherever you saved it.

Check your email

Mint may have sent a data export link before shutting down. Check your email for messages from Mint or Intuit about downloading your data.

Verify the file

Open the CSV in a text editor or spreadsheet app. The first row should be a header row containing column names. If the file opens correctly with rows of transaction data, you are ready to import.

Expected File Format

Forbidden Finance recognizes the Mint export by its header row:

Date,Description,Original Description,Amount,Transaction Type,Category,Account Name,Labels,Notes

Column	Mapped To	Notes
Date	Transaction date	Typically MM/DD/YYYY
Description	Merchant name	Mint's cleaned-up merchant name
Original Description	Preserved as metadata	The raw description from your bank
Amount	Transaction amount	Always positive; sign is determined by Transaction Type
Transaction Type	Determines amount sign	"debit" becomes negative (expense), "credit" becomes positive (income)
Category	Category	Matched against Forbidden Finance categories by name
Account Name	Not imported directly	Use this to determine which account to import into
Labels	Tags	Imported as tags on the transaction
Notes	Description	Preserved as a note

Mint exports store all amounts as positive numbers and use the "Transaction Type" column to indicate direction. Forbidden Finance handles this automatically: "debit" entries become expenses (negative) and "credit" entries become income (positive).

How to Import into Forbidden Finance

Open the import screen

Go to Transactions > Import in Forbidden Finance.

Select your Mint export file

Choose the CSV file. Forbidden Finance detects the Mint format automatically.

Choose the target account

Select the account these transactions belong to. Since Mint exports may contain transactions from multiple accounts (check the Account Name column), consider filtering your CSV by account first or importing all to one account and reorganizing later.

Review the preview

Verify that dates, amounts, merchants, and categories look correct. Mint categories are matched to Forbidden Finance categories by name. Unmatched categories import as uncategorized.

Confirm the import

Tap Import and monitor the progress. The summary shows imported, skipped, and errored rows.

Common Issues

All my amounts are showing as positive or all as negative

This usually happens if the Transaction Type column is missing or misread. Check your CSV file to ensure the header row includes "Transaction Type" with values of "debit" or "credit" for each row.

My Mint categories did not match

Mint uses its own category names (like "Fast Food" or "Auto & Transport"). Forbidden Finance matches by name and maps common Mint categories to equivalent categories. Any that do not match import as uncategorized. Use the uncategorized filter to clean them up after import.

The file contains transactions from multiple accounts

Mint exports include an "Account Name" column but Forbidden Finance imports all rows to one target account. For better organization, split the CSV by account name before importing. Open it in a spreadsheet app, sort or filter by Account Name, and save each group as a separate file.

I do not have my Mint export anymore

Unfortunately, if you did not download your data before Mint shut down, the data may not be recoverable from Mint. Check your email for any export links Intuit may have sent. If you have bank access, you may be able to download transaction history directly from your bank and use the generic CSV and JSON importer.

Tips

Mint's "Labels" column is imported as tags in Forbidden Finance. If you used Mint labels to organize your data, those labels carry over and are searchable.

Mint export files can be large if you had years of history. The import processes in batches of 100, so large files may take a minute or two. Do not close the app while the import is running.

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