MilesBuzz! - One place to track ALL miles/programs? Suggestions (merged)

Does anyone know of any one site that you can track the miles and for all of your flight/hotel/other programs? I'm tired of trying to remember all of the numbers and passwords for each site!

I have looked at points.com, but they don't have all of the airlines and hotels that I frequently use.

Other suggestions?

Thanks!

Does anyone know of any one site that you can track the miles and for all of your flight/hotel/other programs? I'm tired of trying to remember all of the numbers and passwords for each site!

I have looked at points.com, but they don't have all of the airlines and hotels that I frequently use.

Other suggestions?

Thanks!



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www.mileagemanager.com

www.mileagemanager.com

I like the option that this reminds you if your miles are about to expire.
Anything like this thats free? Sorry, I'm cheap ;)

My guess is that you need to be a Fidelity customer, but they have a great service called Full View. You enter your credit card, frequent flyer, etc info just once (user names, passwords, etc). Then log onto Fidelity and it shows you a summary for all your accounts. You just click once to Log In and it redirects you to the applicable frequent flyer or credit card website. I have been using it for years and really like it.

http://www.mileport.com/

by frequentflier.com

http://www.mileport.com/

by frequentflier.com

Any free tools out there that keeps track of when your miles are about to expire?

My guess is that you need to be a Fidelity customer, but they have a great service called Full View. You enter your credit card, frequent flyer, etc info just once (user names, passwords, etc). Then log onto Fidelity and it shows you a summary for all your accounts. You just click once to Log In and it redirects you to the applicable frequent flyer or credit card website. I have been using it for years and really like it.

Thanx fti.

I was not aware of "Fidelity - Full View"
I'll check it out now.

I was not aware of "Fidelity - Full View"
I'll check it out now.
This service is powered by Yodlee, and you can get the most recent product (with support for more sites, but also perhaps a few extra bugs) by going direct to the source...

Check out Yodlee's MoneyCenter (http://corporate.yodlee.com/moneycenter/index_postlaunch.html). This allows you to keep track of your miles, hotel points, AND all your financial accounts. Fidelity Full View is powered by an older version of the Yodlee engine - somewhat more stable but with fewer features and fewer accounts supported.

Choose whichever you like!

http://www.yodlee.com is pretty convenient..

Is there any difference between USA TODAY Mile Tracker and MilePort? They appear to be the same.

Is there any difference between USA TODAY Mile Tracker and MilePort? They appear to be the same.

They are very similar, but (IMHO) I prefer MilePort. It seems to support more programs - and it is from FrequentFlier.com! :D

I have both, and like MilePort better! :D

My guess is that you need to be a Fidelity customer, but they have a great service called Full View.
Bank of America has a similar service called My Portfolio (Yodlee is the underlying software). I have it free with my checking account.

Bank of America has a similar service called My Portfolio (Yodlee is the underlying software). I have it free with my checking account.
Many banks license the Yodlee service, actually. HSBC, T. Rowe Price, etc. You can see the full list of banks/brokerages here (http://corporate.yodlee.com/customers/consumers.html). But, the MoneyCenter service directly on Yodlee.com (see link a few posts up) will have the newest version of the software (with the newest bugs, too :)).

When a bank or Fidelity or someone licenses the Yodlee product, are they using Yodlee's servers or their own?

If I sign up for one of these products, it seems as though Fidelity has a lot less incentive to hose me than Yodlee, and might be more apt to reimburse me in case I somehow lose a zillion FF miles to fraud.

When a bank or Fidelity or someone licenses the Yodlee product, are they using Yodlee's servers or their own?

If I sign up for one of these products, it seems as though Fidelity has a lot less incentive to hose me than Yodlee, and might be more apt to reimburse me in case I somehow lose a zillion FF miles to fraud.
AFAIK (I'm not a Yodlee employee), all Yodlee clients use Yodlee servers. However, each client has their own dedicated servers - the databases aren't shared between clients.

As for "hosing" you, Yodlee has absolutely NO incentive to hose you, considering that they're the engine behind all of this. All data is encrypted and all servers are stored in locked rooms - there are multiple levels of security, both physical and virtual, to ensure the integrity of the data. Given the number of financial clients Yodlee has, you can bet they want to maintain security.

You can read more about it on Yodlee's website, they have press releases and such. There is also a forum for discussion of such issues.

AFAIK (I'm not a Yodlee employee), all Yodlee clients use Yodlee servers. However, each client has their own dedicated servers - the databases aren't shared between clients.

As for "hosing" you, Yodlee has absolutely NO incentive to hose you, considering that they're the engine behind all of this. All data is encrypted and all servers are stored in locked rooms - there are multiple levels of security, both physical and virtual, to ensure the integrity of the data. Given the number of financial clients Yodlee has, you can bet they want to maintain security.

You can read more about it on Yodlee's website, they have press releases and such. There is also a forum for discussion of such issues.

I shouldn't risked the implication that Yodlee has any such incentive. I should have said that Fidelity, having orders of magnitude more money than Yodlee, has infinitely more incentive to NOT hose me, and would have to pay out a lot more money in case of a breach.

That's all.

Free doesn't always mean free it seems. If you look closely at the threads in this forum, you'll seem to notice ongoing active topics dealing with tech challenges of these free services. Notice there never seems to be any complaints about mileagemanager.com which is actually the oldest and largest of the services - started in 1987 but online about 10 years ago. It's always nice when you don't have to spend your time figuring out why US Airways isn't loading, etc. For some, your time is money and thus maybe not "free." It's not like it is a major purchase, $14.95? And it helps support keeping FlyerTalk free. Seems like a really good deal when you factor all that in. As well, mileagemanger.com does not have advertising which is nice as well.

But there is a product out there for every need and every budget and that's good as well.

Funny thing, the guy that thought mileagemanager.com was too expensive at $14.95 and then bemoaned when he lost 32,019 miles to expiration. Seems to me that $14.95 would have been a very cheap price to pay to have not lost those miles.

You might like this idea that mileagemanager.com is fooling around with. Called the Expiration Manager, it detects expiring miles and puts in a small number of miles into that account to keep it active so the member never has to worry.

I like the option that this reminds you if your miles are about to expire.
Anything like this thats free? Sorry, I'm cheap ;)

You might like this idea that mileagemanager.com is fooling around with. Called the Expiration Manager, it detects expiring miles and puts in a small number of miles into that account to keep it active so the member never has to worry.

Wow, that is a brilliant idea. Good work. I will probably be subscribing soon.

Thanks for the info, one more reason I love this site!

You might like this idea that mileagemanager.com is fooling around with. Called the Expiration Manager, it detects expiring miles and puts in a small number of miles into that account to keep it active so the member never has to worry.



Wow, that is a brilliant idea.

Brilliant is an understatement IMO.

This is THE killer app which any FF will want to use to protect his/her miles. Especially in orphan programs where we don’t always spend a lot of time and attention.

Not sure how the mechanics will work but sign me up as a charter subscriber.

Brilliant is an understatement IMO.

This is THE killer app which any FF will want to use to protect his/her miles. Especially in orphan programs where we don’t always spend a lot of time and attention.

Not sure how the mechanics will work but sign me up as a charter subscriber.

I second that opinion. I tried one of the free mileage trackers because it's free, but the value of the service is just not significant enough for me to deal with the bugs of the free trackers or the price of milemanager. But a tracker that detects upcoming expirations and keeps neglected accounts active? I'd pay for that on day 1.

Hard to imagine how one could implement something like that without the airlines/hotels/etc. shutting it down once they figured out what was happening, though But if you can do it, sign me up, too!

Let's see... If I get a new AAdvantage account, and buy milemanager, and if AA miles expire every 3 years, and if milemanager keeps the account alive by adding just 1 mile, then with $14.95 and, what, about 3 million years, I'll have Gold status with AA! ;)

Any free tools out there that keeps track of when your miles are about to expire?Would you trust one there was one???

Remember, to do what these services do, THEY have to keep track of all your account numbers and passwords. Yikes, you want to trust that to a who-knows-who "nobody" that offers up a free version of it? What would be their point in making it free? Why, to occasionally "siphon off" some of your miles! :td:

There are free solutions, but not as automatic or mile-specific. One example is calendar tools (with settable "appointments" with alarms WAY out in the distance). Obviously, though, you have to remember to "touch" them every time you do have an activity that resets the miles expriation.

You may also want to try setting up your spreadsheet to keep track of all your programs. With the right formula, as long as you enter the date of your last activity, and you've set up the expiration time, it can calculate when the expiration will occur and show that to you. You have to enter the data manually, but it is free (if you don't have a spreadsheet program on your computer, you can download a free Excel-compatible one at www.openoffice.org).

But I'm wondering, how many programs do you have that you have a problem with keeping track of expriations?

The "major" airlines all have iDining/Rewards Network programs. As long as you have at least one card for every such program (can be either credit card, debit card, charge card, or even an MC/Visa "gift card" used a placeholder), if you just dine with each program ONCE every year (in most cases just once every two or three years, but to keep it simple do it more often), you'll keep the miles in that associated program alive. You then never have to worry about expiration because you're always far ahead of it.

That leaves just LCC's or foreign airlines that don't participate in iDine (BA does, but that's the only non-US airline I know of). But LCCs other than Frontier tend to have very strict expirations (like a year), and many have few ways of keeping miles alive other than flying (because they have so few partners), so I'm not sure how many of those you can practically keep extending at the same time.

They are very similar, but (IMHO) I prefer MilePort. It seems to support more programs - and it is from FrequentFlier.com! :D

I have both, and like MilePort better! :DHowever, both fail to retrieve a number of my accounts, including Alitalia and a couple of mileage credit cards. Makes them pretty useless for me.

I too am concerned about the security issue related to sites that offer to consolidate all you accounts, for free. They must be using my personal data (even if it is only an email address) in ways that I don't like.
I create my own spreadsheet to track various accounts (miles, points etc...). On that point, would it be neat if airlines and hotels provide a spreadsheet friendly version of statement for download? Something similar to Yahoo Finance.

Just took a quick look at mileagemanager.com, thinking I'd sign-up. Looks good, but from a quick look, the one thing stopping me is that it only tracks one account per program. I was hoping to be able to track miles for the family all together in one place. Any thoughts on a convenient way to achieve this?

Would you trust one there was one???

Remember, to do what these services do, THEY have to keep track of all your account numbers and passwords. Yikes, you want to trust that to a who-knows-who "nobody" that offers up a free version of it? What would be their point in making it free? Why, to occasionally "siphon off" some of your miles! :td:

Yes, I do trust Fidelity Investments, who tracks my account numbers along with a pretty good chunk of change. If I trust them with all of my investments, I think putting my miles/points at risk isn't exactly a huge leap of faith.

With MileTracker, the account info is stored on my PC.

Who exactly are you thinking of as the "nobody" that stores all of your info on their servers? Yodlee?

Any timeline as to when/if expiration manager will part of MileageManager?

Been able to do ok with the other freebies, but expiration manager would be a clear advantage over the others, hands down.
Much easier to justify the $15 a year for people like me that don't have huge amounts of miles, but what I do have I like to protect.
Also, I manage my accounts for the family(eg: wife/kids), is there a family option or would I have sign each one up individually?
When were talking 5/7 year old kids accounts, hard to justfiy an annual -when he flys maybe once a year.

Great program though, for the "right" audience.^






Free doesn't always mean free it seems. If you look closely at the threads in this forum, you'll seem to notice ongoing active topics dealing with tech challenges of these free services. Notice there never seems to be any complaints about mileagemanager.com which is actually the oldest and largest of the services - started in 1987 but online about 10 years ago. It's always nice when you don't have to spend your time figuring out why US Airways isn't loading, etc. For some, your time is money and thus maybe not "free." It's not like it is a major purchase, $14.95? And it helps support keeping FlyerTalk free. Seems like a really good deal when you factor all that in. As well, mileagemanger.com does not have advertising which is nice as well.

But there is a product out there for every need and every budget and that's good as well.

Funny thing, the guy that thought mileagemanager.com was too expensive at $14.95 and then bemoaned when he lost 32,019 miles to expiration. Seems to me that $14.95 would have been a very cheap price to pay to have not lost those miles.

You might like this idea that mileagemanager.com is fooling around with. Called the Expiration Manager, it detects expiring miles and puts in a small number of miles into that account to keep it active so the member never has to worry.

Any timeline as to when/if expiration manager will part of MileageManager?

Been able to do ok with the other freebies, but expiration manager would be a clear advantage over the others, hands down.
Much easier to justify the $15 a year for people like me that don't have huge amounts of miles, but what I do have I like to protect.
Also, I manage my accounts for the family(eg: wife/kids), is there a family option or would I have sign each one up individually?
When were talking 5/7 year old kids accounts, hard to justfiy an annual -when he flys maybe once a year.

Great program though, for the "right" audience.^

Unfortunately, you have to get an account for each familymember.

Second problem with mileagemanager: they don't support non-US programs. The Amex MR will only work with US based Amex, while it is not difficult to get info for foreign cards...

If there's a thread on this already (I couldn't find one with search) please let me know.

How do you keep track of all your ff programs?

Like many people, I routinely join a program whenever I fly a new airline, and sometimes even before I fly one. As a result, over the years I find that I've forgotten exactly what programs I've joined, I don't know if some of my memberships or miles have expired, and often I have no memory of what my userids and passwords for the airlines ff web sites are.

Of course you can write all this down, and save it with the correspondence you get from the airline in a folder, and then of course you eventually lose the folder. And anyway, a lot of programs seem not to send any correspondence if you're not active (or if you opt out of email announcements, which I always do because most of them turn out to be of no interest to me.)

Keeping email correspondence helps, but it's not perfect -- email can be lost, searches for the proper email can be difficult, etc. Also, I've changed email addresses enough so that I can never be sure what email address I've given all the various airlines in the past.

And if you are part of a couple, of course, then the whole problem is doubled.

Theoretically, an ideal solution would be a meta-site page, sort of a Kayak.com for mileage programs -- you could put in a mileage program on the site every time you joined one, and then use the site to check all your miles and status. But the problem would be security -- the ff sites all require uid/pw, and neither airlines nor most users would want to entrust these to a third party interface.

Does anyone have any tips for physical or automated ways to keep track of what programs you belong to, what email addresses and uid/pw are associated with their web sites, and what your status is with each one? Thanks for any suggestions.

Seems like you'd want to minimize the number of programs you're a member of and concentrate your miles in one or two places if possible rather than join them all and have orphan miles all over the place.

www.Points.com will keep track of some balances but it is far from complete and a little too commercial for my taste. I remember there used to be some other sites that polled the airline's sites (with you password etc) and pulled your miles back in but I think the airlines nixed all of these.

Slightly OT, but a cool site for keeping track of where you have flown and mapping your flights etc is www.flightmemory.com.....

Seems like you'd want to minimize the number of programs you're a member of and concentrate your miles in one or two places if possible rather than join them all and have orphan miles all over the place.

I do try to concentrate on two programs generally, but sometimes it's necessary to fly other airlines too. It takes very little effort to join other programs and it's free, and since you never know when you might take that airline again, it seems worth while to join routinely whenever I fly an airline for the first time.

I've heard that some hotels give you some benefits, either officially or unofficially (at discretion of desk) just for joining their frequent guest programs, but I don't know if any airlines do the same.

just keep a file of the latest statements from each program and review it from time to time....

good luck!

I use Bank of America's "My Portfolio" feature, which is a rebranded version of Yodlee.com. You can add rewards accounts to it which will show the point values on the summary screen.

I have gone the route where I try and consolidate everything into 2 airline programs and 3 hotel programs. It's relatively easy since I live in a hub city and have a lot of leeway when I make my hotel reservations. Makes it much easier that way.

I love Miletracker. Free, easy and efficient.
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for many years already I keep track of all my (and Gisela's) miles and points with my own single Excel sheet, entering the basic informations already when I join (program, membership#, password). Headings are:

date, text (flight/hotel-information, confirmation#), program: status-miles / bonus miles.

Already when I plan (before booking) I start entering what I plan to do.

Different coloring for: planned, booked, done, requested.

I also have the basic informations of an airline/hotel-program in my address-book (program name&number, mail-adress, password (in a 'secret language'), tf-/fax#, email-address, homepage, misc like class-/booking-codes and mileage%, preferred sitting per aircraft type

And I also don't delete the flight/hotel-bookings in my calendar until credited.

Software programs like Miletracker don't serve me, as they don't cover many of my Swiss programs (like Coop Superpoints).

I love Miletracker. Free, easy and efficient.
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I'll second that.

I recommend using one or two 'master' accounts and consolidate - pick a STAR alliance and One World carrier - that covers most of the world. Don't open new accounts on airlines that you can consolidate. Even if they're not officially part of the two or three major partnerships many smaller airlines have relationships with them.

MileTracker is a popular one, but I use Yodlee MoneyCenter (http://www.yodlee.com). alanh mentioned the Bank of America-branded version of this, and there are others (e.g. Fidelity FullView, HSBC EasyView, etc.)... but it's my preferred tool.

Just took a quick look at mileagemanager.com, thinking I'd sign-up. Looks good, but from a quick look, the one thing stopping me is that it only tracks one account per program. I was hoping to be able to track miles for the family all together in one place. Any thoughts on a convenient way to achieve this?

Great question. Which program is best to keep track of the balances of many family members?

There's at least one other recent thread on this subject in this forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=595419

(Perhaps the Mods could consolidate these?)

Well, one more thing learnt. Never knew there was one place to see all the 30 or so programs that I have miles on:D

My guess is that you need to be a Fidelity customer, but they have a great service called Full View. You enter your credit card, frequent flyer, etc info just once (user names, passwords, etc). Then log onto Fidelity and it shows you a summary for all your accounts. You just click once to Log In and it redirects you to the applicable frequent flyer or credit card website. I have been using it for years and really like it.

Thanks for the heads up on this. Just set up all my accounts and really like it so far.^

My guess is that you need to be a Fidelity customer, but they have a great service called Full View.Yep, as I mentioned in my previous post, this is their branded version of Yodlee's service, similar to Bank of America's MyPortfolio or HSBC's EasyView. If you are not a Fidelity customer, you can still access the Yodlee service either through one of the other branded partners (e.g. BoA, HSBC, etc.) or directly through yodlee.com. It's definitely a great tool.

Many banks license the Yodlee service, actually. HSBC, T. Rowe Price, etc. You can see the full list of banks/brokerages here (http://corporate.yodlee.com/customers/consumers.html). But, the MoneyCenter service directly on Yodlee.com (see link a few posts up) will have the newest version of the software (with the newest bugs, too :)).

could someone direct me to how you use BOA "my portfolio" to track airline miles? all i can find is money management.. ?

could someone direct me to how you use BOA "my portfolio" to track airline miles? all i can find is money management.. ?


I just found it myself and am enjoying it. After logging into your account, there should be a link for it on the summary page. By the way, I believe that a bank of america checking account is free under some circumstances, thus the my portfolio tool is essentially free too. great deal. especially, if you already use bank of america.

boa's "my portfolio" is a great tool! But I cant seem to link Frontier Airlines or Starwoods account to my other airlines - its not in their database? is there a way to add these?

On BofA site, I can go to My Portfolio -> Add and Manage Accounts tab -> Add accounts and search for "Starwood" to find it. However, I don't see Frontier.

Frontier is NOT listed under My Portfolio. However, after 30 minutes on the phone with BOA, I was able to submit a request that it be added! So hopefully it will show up in the near future..

I had spent some time working to build up all accounts I figured I did not really want anymore to levels that equalled some redemption level (for example, my US Airways was at 22k so I got it to 25k and used it to fly on a UAL flight once, and a family member's AA account was 8k so I got it to 10k and used the miles to fly inter island in Hawaii, and my DL account had only 2k in it so I redeemed them for mags leaving about 50 miles in there...) things like that.

I then burned up said accounts and used the free space in my mind to be free!

Since it is all a hobby anyway, I still periodically check the balances of my few remaining accounts and since there are not too many of them, I find checking on my own is faster and cheaper than any service out there. I pretty much added some miles into each of them around the same time so I can quickly figure out the expiry date in case it comes time to do activity. No account is under 17 months right now.

I find manual is often better than automatic for many such things.

Thanks for bumping this up ^^^

I've had a fidelity account for years and while I've seen the full view option, I never actually clicked on it to see what it was :eek: :eek:

I just did and quickly was able to add all my miles & point accounts and can see each of them, with details, in one place.

hi,

does anybody know how save this tool is?

i am thinking of moving it to an encrypted partion and only let it run if i have entered the password as this tool doesnt have any protection features.

any tips hints?

dp