Migration guide · Updated August 26, 2026

    How to switch from Mint to SnapBooks

    Mint closed in 2024 and never handled business books anyway. This guide walks through exporting your Mint history, separating business from personal, importing it into SnapBooks, and ending up with categorized, Schedule C-ready books in about half an hour.

    What you need before you start

    • Your Mint (or Credit Karma) login, or CSV statements from your bank
    • A spreadsheet app to tidy the export
    • Receipts for any larger purchases you want attached
    • A SnapBooks trial — $15/mo after 7 days

    The eight steps

    1. 1

      Export your transaction history

      In Mint (or Credit Karma, where Mint accounts were moved), open Transactions, set the date range to cover the tax years you still need, and choose 'Export transactions as CSV'. You get a file with date, description, original description, amount, transaction type, category and account name.

    2. 2

      Split business from personal

      Open the CSV in a spreadsheet and sort by account. Delete the rows that belong to a purely personal card, or tag them so you can drop them later. If you ran everything through one account, keep the file whole — SnapBooks lets you exclude personal lines after import.

    3. 3

      Normalize the columns

      SnapBooks needs three columns: date, description and amount. Mint splits money out into a 'transaction type' column of debit/credit, so convert debits to negative amounts (or leave the type column in place — the importer reads it).

    4. 4

      Import into SnapBooks

      Start a trial, and on the onboarding 'Bring your data' step upload the CSV. Every row is read, categorized into business expense categories and mapped to the matching Schedule C line. Review the first screen of suggestions — corrections train the categorizer for future imports.

    5. 5

      Fix categories in bulk

      Sort by 'Uncategorized' and by vendor. Recategorizing one vendor applies to every past and future transaction from that vendor, so a handful of edits usually cleans up years of history.

    6. 6

      Add the receipts Mint never held

      Photograph or drag in the receipts you still have for larger purchases. The AI reads vendor, amount, date and category and attaches the image to the matching expense, so an audit request is a search instead of a shoebox.

    7. 7

      Rebuild your recurring picture

      Mint's bill tracking does not export. List the subscriptions and retainers you expect each month as recurring items so the cash-flow forecast knows what is coming.

    8. 8

      Check the totals, then close Mint out

      Compare your SnapBooks profit and loss for a completed month against the same month in your old Mint export. When income and spend match, you are done — keep the original CSV in cloud storage as your archive.

    Try the import before you commit

    Drop your exported CSV below to see the breakdown you'll get — money in, money out, spend by category and top vendors. The file is parsed in your browser and never leaves your device.

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    Columns we look for: date, description/merchant, amount.

    What changes once you're moved over

    Categories
    Consumer buckets become business expense categories mapped to Schedule C lines.
    Receipts
    Photos are read by AI and attached to the matching expense.
    Income
    Client invoices and payments live in the same ledger as your spending.
    Forecast
    Recurring items feed a forward cash-flow view instead of a backward-looking budget.
    Tax time
    One export your accountant can actually file from.

    Questions people ask

    Can I still export data from Mint?

    Mint itself was shut down in 2024 and accounts were migrated to Credit Karma. If you still have access, export transactions as CSV from the transactions view. If you don't, download CSV statements directly from your bank instead — the SnapBooks importer reads those the same way.

    How far back should I import?

    Import at least the current tax year and the prior one. Older history is useful for trends but is rarely needed for filing, and the IRS generally expects records going back three years.

    Will my Mint categories carry over?

    Mint's categories are consumer-oriented (Groceries, Shopping, Fast Food), so SnapBooks re-categorizes each line into business expense categories mapped to Schedule C rather than importing the old labels.

    What about personal transactions in the file?

    Leave them in if it's easier. After import you can filter to personal-looking rows and exclude them in bulk so they never hit your profit and loss.

    How long does the switch take?

    For a solo business with one or two accounts, about 30 minutes: ten to export and tidy the CSV, ten to import, ten to review the categories.

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