Today we open the official Moneytrackin’ Message board, a place where all our members can meet and discuss about all financial and personal accounting topics.
We’ve created a new thread to inaugurate it: How would you improve moneytrackin? Feel free to write any request on it!
Also check the message board main page
Today we’ve reached another awesome milestone, we have surpassed the 1,000,000 entered transactions mark!
The moneytrackin’ team would like to give a big THANK YOU to all of our users who have allowed us to keep growing steadily by using our app to track their finances day after day.
After a short period of closed beta testing we think it’s mature enough to be released to all our users.
Check the new Moneytrackin’ 2.0 out -> http://www.moneytrackin.com
Here is the press note:
Moneytrackin’, the leading online tool for personal accounting, has launched its redesigned website, improving its usability and adding new community features
BARCELONA, Spain – September 26, 2007 – Moneytrackin’, the leading online tool for personal accounting, has re-launched its website http://www.moneytrackin.com. The new website not only improves the company’s branding but also offers a better user interface. Meanwhile, the team has created the necessary infrastructure to offer its members a new community meeting point for those interested in saving money.
Moneytrackin’ was founded in May 2006 and is supported by important players from the IT, including Martin Varsavsky, founder of Jazztel, Ya.com and FON. Since being founded, 911,114 transactions have been inserted on its online tool, managing up to $208,353,077.
Now almost a year and a half after its founding, Moneytrackin’ has improved its website, redesigning its brand and launching together with the successful existing features, a new online social network, for people who want to save money.
Thanks to the new website, users can continue to manage their personal accounts, but now with an easier and more usable interface, and they can also join the moneytrackin’ community. The community acts as a “wikipedia” for money saving, and its members manage all of the community tips by rating and classifying them, add personal tips to save money, upload their pictures and value the best tips which are included in a savings “Hall of Fame”.
The new Community also offers a geolocalized tip sevice powered by Google Maps. This tool offers members local tips for saving money based on where they live. For example, they can check for the cheapest gas station in their city or town.
All of the tips are integrated into the personal accounting tool, and the system offers the information for saving money according to the member’s geographic location and the transactions included in the tool. For example, if the member has a monthly expense for the gym tracked in moneytrackin’, she will receive tips related to saving money in gym fees in her city or neighbourhood.
Moneytrackin’ aims to become the saving’s “Wikipedia” thanks to its new community generated input, offering this collective “savings” knowledge to people around the world.
We are already sending invitations out to our top users!
if you’d like to give it a try write us to contact@moneytrackin.com
We’ve been working very hard on giving a more professional look to Moneytrackin’, as well as on improving its usage and usability. We have a brand new layout, structure and colour scheme (no more purple&green anymore). Here is our new logo so you can see what’s coming up:
We have also rewrited all the code internals from scratch for speed’s sake. This new version is going to be definitely faster!
We plan to release it in the next couple of weeks along with other surprises. Stay tuned!
We have added the possibility to attach a file to a transaction. For example now you can upload the invoice of that new laptop you bought last week, so you won’t lose it never (and some shops ask you for the invoice before processing any guarantee request!).
At the moment only images and pdf files are allowed, and the maximum permitted size is 3Mb.
Attaching a file is a very simple process:
) of the desired transaction.
) at the left of the chosen transaction. It’ll tell you that the transaction has an attached file, and clicking it you would open/download it. You can also remove the attached file by clicking on the “Delete attachment” icon (
). If the upload process fails the error message would be displayed.
The purpose of the Dashboard is to allow you to keep a quick, ongoing glance at your overall finances through an easy display.
We have created a feature that lets you add external content, allowing you to include and update all your financial information that you want into your own Dashboard.
The menu on the right has all of the necessary content for adding this information into your Dashboard. To add content, just drag the item from the menu into the middle area (below the “Summary” box). If you want to delete an item, then simply do the opposite: drag the item from the middle are to the menu on the right.
In “My Accounts” you’ll find all of the accounts you want. The next section is “Tools”. We will continue to add new tools. For now you have these:
Finally, in the “News” section, we have included some financial news sources that we think will interest you. If you add any of these into your Dashboard, we’ll show you the latest news to get you up to date at all times.
Besides the Dashboard, we have been working on some of the other improvements you have been asking for:
- The Running Balance column on PDF & XLS reports
- A new button to clear the main account (deleting all of its transactions). Many people have requested this in order to fix an incorrect import without having to delete all of transactions one by one.
- Forgotten password recovery
Another popular request implemented: We’ve added a new column on the transaction list view: the running balance. It works just as in almost all online banking sites, we display the accumulated balance next to the transaction amount value for an easy viewing.
You can follow now your balance evolution at a glance and at the same time it lets you make more accurate predictions of your financial situation in upcoming months.
We have been nominated for BusinessWeek’s contest for the best Entrepreneurs in Europe Age 25 and Younger for our work on Moneytrackin’.
Read the full article for further information, there are some encouraging sentences like:
“What unites all of our 16 nominees is a mix of ambition, impatience, opportunism, and derring-do. Plus, gobs of youthful energy.”
And don’t forget to VOTE for us!
There’s a lot of people out there using moneytrackin’ on a daily basis, and many of them told us that they would work much faster if we could add single-key shortcuts to the most frequently performed actions.
So we’ve added a total of 17 shortcuts that should give you a productivity boost while working with moneytrackin (as you wouldn’t have to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse). Just press the key to launch its associated command.
Full shortcut list:
shortcut key command a switch to the accounting tab d switch to the dashboard tab i insert transaction t transfer money between projects p periodic transactions l toggle limits n create a new project b view monthly balance plot o compare tags e export m import r reports c calculator s search transacions u tag cloud Month navigation with the arrow keys (transaction list only) ← previous month → next month
Also remember that you can close floating windows by pressing the ESC key
