Today Moneytrackin’ turns 2!

We would to thank everyone involved with our project for helping us improve and grow day after day.

In our 1st birthday we said that we had 147,500 entered transactions. Well, right now we have over 3,750,000 which means that our usage has grown 25x since last year. Same happens with our international (we have users from 28 diff countries) user base.

Thank you very much for your support and keep using moneytrackin!

– The Moneytrackin’ team

Today we are launching two new features that makes moneytrackin’ even more social.

Monthly advise

Every first of month we are going to give you a new automatic generated report with custom advise for you based on your current spending habits.

There you’ll be able to see how are you performing compared to previous months, and if you’re either saving or spending more money than usual. You can compare your spending habits with the community’s average too, and also see relevant tips that will help you improve your money usage and grow your wealth.

Each month’s generated reports are archived and remain fully browseable

Community averages

Here you can compare your spending on any particular subject with the current community average, or find out what is people spending on what just out of curiosity.

Be careful, it’s addictive

You’ll find both features under the Community tab, hope you enjoy them!

We’ve added a couple of features that may help you to stay closer to your money:

Upcoming transactions reminder: You’ll receive a summary e-mail containing all transactions that will occur on the next couple of days, so that you never forget to pay your mortgage again.

Monthly letter: Enable this to receive a monthly e-mail containing all relevant tips entered last month. There’s no excuse for not saving!

E-mail notification settings can be enabled or disabled at anytime from the configuration menu.

Hope you find these features useful! Please don’t hesitate to give us your feedback or ideas.

We’ve launched some improvements that should allow you to better visualize your transactions across all the different accounts you may have. A couple months ago we already added the ability to view transactions with a specified tag for all the accounts at once, and now we’ve added it to several other resources:

Reports and charts

New Balance chart, now you can select which accounts do you want to see reflected in it: a single one, a selectable set or all of them.

The same applies to the pie chart , and the date selection controls have been placed at top for easy filtering.

Compare tag graph has been fully reworked too

Reports also lets you to select which projects do you want on it.

Same with the tag cloud:

Limits

Finally now you can also define limits for various projects at once, so for example now you can define a global budget for ‘restaurant’ and be warned once you reach the limit 80% threshold, no matter which account you are paying from.

Enjoy it and don’t hesitate to contact us if you discover any bug

We’ve added some cool improves on the saving money world map:

• User avatar marks: Local tips are now represented with the current author’s avatar. Far better in order to locate the people who is helping us to save money!
• Draggable marks: When two local tip marks are overlapped, drag one of them to another area and magically it will show a cute blue arrow targeting the original location of the tip. Nice feature, isn’t it?

We’re at the office celebrating that tonight we’ve reached another awesome milestone, our 2 millionth transaction!

Here is a chart showing our growth since we launch Moneytrackin’ back in May ‘06:

Greetings to everybody who find our app useful, and very specially to all those users who help us improve each day by sending bug reports or contributing with new ideas

– The Moneytrackin’ team

We’ve uploaded a bunch of new cool features that our users had requested through the How would you improve Moneytrackin’? message board:

• Rename main account: Rename the “Main account” to fit your needs (Bank, Cash, Credit Card….)
• UTF-8 tags: New tags support international characters (cyrillic, chinese,…) and punctuations (ç,ñ,ü…)
• Sorting headers: In Accounting tab now you’re able to sort the transactions table as you prefer (just click on the header of the row you want to sort with)
• CSV Export: From now on you can export your moneytrackin’ data into a open csv format. Compatible with all operating systems and most office suite’s spreadsheet.
• Chosing accounts at Dashboard plot: Now you can select manually the projects you want to show into the Dashboard’s Project Balance Plot

We hope you enjoy these new features and keep suggesting on the forum or through the Contact Form

From now on Moneytrackin’ is even more social with the new features we’ve released:

• Every user can create a custom signature that it will appear on all his community contributions. It can be setted up on Configuration page
• A new Invite friends tool where you can tell your friends to join Moneytrackin’ community and start saving money!
• Improved Hall of Fame. We’ve created a new user’s rating system based on a mathematic formula that scores up community contributions, friend invites sent, fauvorited content and many other parameters. Be sure you’re the number one money saver on moneytrackin’ community!

• Moderators needed! We’ve created a new Admin tab where new moderators can check in real-time all user’s contributions and report inappropiate content. To be a moderator only is requested a fluent english level and love for Moneytrackin’. Write us through the Contact form and tell us why you wanna be a Moneytrackin’ admin

Hope you enjoy the new features and as usually send your own requests to the message board thread How would you improve Moneytrackin’?

We are very proud to announce that we’ve developed a fully working iPhone/iPod touch native client that uses our public Rest API. Now is very easy to track your money on the go with it!

The only requeriment is that your iPhone/iPod touch needs to be jailbreaked, once it is you can easily install the Moneytrackin’ client from AppTap

Currently this client has the same features as the mobile version, if you need to access to advanced features such as browse all community tips or filter transactions by tag you can still navigate to moneytrackin.com. Full version works well on the iPhone’s Safari browser.

Screenshots:

From today you can split a transaction into different ones. That’s very useful for example to track where did you exactly spent some cash you got from an ATM machine withdrawal.

To do it you just have to click on the “ Split” action of the desired transaction’s dropdown menu. It will bring you to the Split transaction form:

There you can enter all subtransactions. Please note that they are just for informative purposes, subtransactions doesn’t have neither data not tags, and they also don’t affect any balance (only the parent transaction does). This is the same behaviour as on the desktop software Intuit Quicken.

Once you’ve saved the split it will inmediately show on the transaction list as well as on the reports:

Hope it helps you to have a clearer view of your finances and don’t hesitate to give us feedback