New: Operate via e-mail
We have finished the operating via e-mail feature, that will be very handy for all those brackberry / mobile email users out there.
Each user has an unique and easy-to-remember random email address showd up on the user preferences window. These address should be kept private, and it can be regenerated at any time if you think that someone does also know it. You can see it on the user preferences window, and you can also get a new one from there if you think that someone else knows your address.
Making a request
You need to send a text-only (no html) e-mail to your private password specifying your username on the subject (this is for security reasons), and the request itself goes into the message body with the following format:
| Insert transaction | Get Balance | Help request |
| insert | balance | help |
| project name (or “main”) | project name (or “main”) | |
| description | ||
| amount | ||
| date (dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd or “now”) | ||
| tags (space separated) |
For example, in order to make a valid insert request we would send an email to our private address with our username as the subject and then we would entere the following text in the message body:
insert
main
Car repair: disc brake pads replacement
-587.23
now
car unexpected
Important: For security reasons we only reply at correct “get balance” requests. We don’t reply with any message neither if the operation has finished successfull or not.
Edit: We think that the private address - username pair is strong enough so anybody couldn’t guess it randomly, so now you’ll get an info reply just after your request had been processed.
May 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
[…] Но, пожалуй, самое интересное - это управление своими финансами по электронной почте.Пользователю достаточно направить письмо по специально предоставленному для него адресу и указать в сообщении команды почтовому роботу. Подробнее о языке запросов можно узнать в корпоративном блоге. За состоянием своего “кошелька” можно наблюдать и на стартовой странице Netvibes - для этого потребуется установить специальный модуль. […]
March 14th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
hi
I want to kow how this works
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Is this feature mandatory? I would prefer not to use it.
July 24th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Of course not! It’s completely optional, you may use it only if you want
July 30th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Is there any way to send multiple transaction in one email?
October 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Congratulations!
It’s a great feature. I’m going to use it.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:30 am
What happens if what’s emailed in doesn’t match the format specified?
I really just need a place to “keep notes” so that once I do get here it’ll be easier to figure out what I need to log, etc.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Всем привет! Я тут новичок. Примите в вашу компанию?
January 6th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I agree with Mark
January 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
can you add a SMS feature???
it will be very usefull!!!!