I downloaded this program....but it doesn't give me a summary of all my points balance

Anyone know what my problem is?

If I click on "autonavigate", it takes me automatically to my FF webpage....so this part seems to work fine!

I run Windows 98 with IE 5 if that helps

Thanks

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kpc

Yodlee rules. Adding new accounts is a piece of cake if you install Yodlee Assistant, which automatically adds accounts when you log in to them (if you want it to).

I use Yodlee every single day to check on my portfolio and to keep tabs on my credit card accounts to catch any unauthorized charges that may appear.

Oh, and I have 15+ mileage/points programs in there too.

Price: $0

Now, if only there was an iDine multi-program tracker. Let's see, one month I need 8 AA iDines for 2000 bonus miles, meanwhile every month 3 NWA iDines for either 250 or 500 bonus miles, then various UA promos that constantly change (but in general in 2004 25% bonus on every UA iDine if I did the qualification ok), then once I get status at AA 3 AA iDines every month for 500 bonus miles. Then many of my favorite iDine restaurants are 1 visit per month per program, so those I need to rotate among the programs, but do that with all the above bonus earnings in mind.

To me, keeping track of how to optimize all this is much harder than the underlying Frequent Flyer and Frequent Stay programs.

But I've not heard of a tracker for all the iDine-based programs (all of which, btw, I have to log into an airline-specific site rather than iDine proper).

And will any of the mileage trackers let me put in the dates for my hotel stays, the "convenience factor" for each chain's hotel location, the rate for each chain's hotel, and then correlate that to the FF programs I belong to, the complex airline-hotel cross-promotions (like NWA's up to 200% bonus but only if you earn directly to miles), and then tell me how much I can earn in which program or where to stay each night if I want XX miles into this program and YY miles into that program?

If it's not for these kinds of complex promos, I don't have a big problem managing miles/points manually. But boy, when everyone throws a complex promo -- each with completely different rules -- at me simultaneously and I have to balance them out (like HHonors Diamond in 10 stays about the same time as Priority Club 10k + 7.5k for 8 stays in a pair of months when it turned out I had exactly 18 stays to do, and then AA threw out 5k for one Starwood stay into the mix!), THAT'S what I need a tracker for.

But that's not what I understand the trackers to be able to do. Just the stuff (like NORMAL earnings) that's comparatively easy to do manually. Am I wrong?

Stefan--

Your post is hilarious. I think I'm going to print it out to give my assistant when she can't figure out why it takes me 30 minutes to figure out which hotel to stay in (based on bonuses, etc. as you discuss).

I think there would be a market for some sort of help line-- 1-800-LUV-MILE so people could call and get advice from someone to find out which credit card to pay with, which restaurant to eat at, etc.

based on the suggestions in this column i downloaded the miletracker software today. i like it a lot!
i told a friend about it and he suggested using yahoo's travel tracker. have any of you used yahoo to do this? any advantages/disadvantages? he likes it because it syncs with the other yahoo stuff he does, such as email, address book, etc.

Is "Choice Privileges" in the program.
Didn't find it.

I haven't used Mileage Trackers, but they must have some way to track them! The problem with the Choice Privileges program is that there is no automated way for a computer without excellent two-way voice capability to get your points info. You can't get any info on your account at Choice's website, you have to either wait for your occasional mailed statements or call and speak to a human. Neither of the latter two situations are easy for a mileage tracker program or website to deal with...

Miletracker is the best thing next to buttered popcorn. It stores the info on YOUR computer.

As I recall, Yodlee does NOT. Personally, I'd rather have all of my account numbers on MY computer; not someone else's. That is also the reason why lots of credit unions said thanks but no thanks, to Yodlee.