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“Keep the Change” in PocketMoney

Hardy Macia — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:09:44 +0000

I’ve had numerous requests for Bank of America’s “Keep the Change” feature which transfers the change to a designated account to help with your savings. Here is a video tutorial on how to use the new “Keep the Change” feature in PocketMoney.

“PocketMoney Offers Nice New Update”

Hardy Macia — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:18:37 +0000

“PocketMoney Offers Nice New Update” – appadvice.com

Not only was the review favorable, the first two comments were also extremely nice. I really appreciate you all!

PocketMoney (LITE/FULL) 3.0.8 approved by Apple

Hardy Macia — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:29:07 +0000

Apple has approved PocketMoney LITE 3.0.8 and the Full version.

The updates to 3.0.8 are in this post.

Download PocketMoney LITE 3.0.8 from AppStore now

Buy PocketMoney 3.0.8 from AppStore $4.99

Pocketmoney for the iPhone/iPod; always at the tips of your fingers

Hardy Macia — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:50:23 +0000

“…This is a tremendous app that will put all your financial date in the palm of your hand….” – The Examiner.com

PocketMoney 3.0.8 submitted to Apple for review

Hardy Macia — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:38:04 +0000

I decided to release 3.0.8 to fix a few of the bugs that were causing some users some issues, and not rush the 3.1 release, although 3.0.8 is getting a few new features that I was planning on being part of 3.1 – Keep the Change, Month-by-Month report for Chart IAP owners, and Document downloads through Safari and Mail from your banks.

New stuff:

“Keep the Change” added to transfer the change of the current transaction to a specified account.
Option to link/unlink the id field of transfers.
Operators are shown for calculations in amount fields when using calculator keypad.
Update icons and graphics for Retina Displays
Options for clearing splits and not filling in the amount during auto-competes of transactions has been added under PocketMoney’s Settings > Miscellaneous.
Photo receipts are backup when using SyncDocs.
Download QIF/OFX/QFX files through Safari or Mail and open them with PocketMoney, no longer requiring a desktop computer to download you bank statement before you import it into PocketMoney.

New stuff for purchasers of the Charts In-App-Purchase:

Added a month-by-month report so you can visualize your spending by month. A good way to use this report is to first run a Category Report, then drill down into a category like Utilities, then run the Month-By-Month report and look at your monthly spending over the course of the year. Spikes in your spending will pop right out at you.

Utilities Month-by-Month for 2010

New for PocketMoney LITE:

Ads have been added to help generate some additional revenue.
The Pie chart display is now available to Lite users in the Reports section.
Plus Keep the Change, and Document downloads through Safari/Mail features the full version has received.

Fixed bugs:

Password screen engages correctly on multi-tasking devices so your data can’t been seen.
Importing amounts in QIF files fixed.
OFX import matches more existing transactions.
Calculator keyboard back for iOS 3.1-3.1.3 users.
Other minor bugs fixed.

Buy PocketMoney now on the AppStore

Test out PocketMoney Lite from the AppStore for free

PoketMoney 3.1 delayed

Hardy Macia — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:30:46 +0000

I told several people I was going to be submitting 3.1 of PocketMoney to Apple this week, but an issue came up with the syncing to the desktop version of PocketMoney that needs to be fixed so it is delayed for a little longer. More news to come.

Apple’s AppStore review process better, but still takes too long — harms customers

Hardy Macia — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:45:36 +0000

PocketMoney users recently experienced one of the negative side effects of Apple’s long AppStore review process… which recently happened after users upgraded to iOS 4.0 and installed version 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that among other things fixed some issues related to iOS 4.0, but a very serious bug was also introduced in 3.0.6.

This bug that caused transactions to switch accounts is my fault, and version 3.0.6 should have never have been released with this bug, but it was released and now I need to learn from my mistakes.

The mistakes that are in my control can be fixed to a certain extent with the proper testing, and I plan on adding notifications to my applications so I have a way to directly communicate with customers when serious issues happen.

What I don’t have control of is the AppStore review process, and it is something that after 16 years in the software industry I still trying to adapt to. Typically if a serious bug arose in any of my apps on other platforms I’d release a fix immediately and very few users would ever be affected. But, the AppStore’s “review lag” takes a serious bug is turns it into a disaster for not just a few customers, but for multitudes of customers.

Requesting Apple to expedite the process helps, but still isn’t fast enough. It must be immediate. I’m willing to pay $10k or something to Apple to be able to instantly approve updates. Yes, make us send new apps through the review process to make sure they conform with all of Apple’s guidelines, but put updates post-approval process so we can get urgent updates out immediately.

PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved

Hardy Macia — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:45:37 +0000

PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved – fixes the transactions switching accounts bug among other things. (see this post for details)

PocketMoney on AppStore

PocketMoney 3.0.7 submitted – fixes transactions moving between accounts

Hardy Macia — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:44:49 +0000

I have submitted 3.0.7 of PocketMoney and PocketMoney LITE to Apple. I have also requested a priority review for the full version of PocketMoney. Apple doesn’t like giving apps priority reviews often, and hopefully they will grant one for PM 3.0.7 even though they recently gave PM 3.0.6 a priority review due to the keyboard issue. I will have 4 other apps in the review queue at the same time so I made it clear I only need PM with priority review and not any of the others.

Fixes in 3.0.7 of PocketMoney

• Fix for the auto complete transactions switching the account of transactions (See this post for full details and workaround)

• Fix for email partner feature causing a crash

• Fix for deleting a split entry causing a crash

• Backwards compatibility for iOS 3.1.3 devices.

• Sub-sub-categories rollup in reports (along with a preference > display > reports to disable subcategory grouping)

• Fixed mime time on PocketMoneyDB.sql backup file when emailing.

Auto-complete transaction issue in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney

Hardy Macia — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:20:52 +0000

There is an bug in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that many users will experience. It’s my fault for rushing to get the fix for the keyboard released for iOS 4.0 and one of the features I added at the last minute was sufficiently tested.

If you are entering the payee to autocomplete a transaction, and PocketMoney finds a transaction that matches the payee in a different account than your current, it will pull the info into the new transaction like always, but the transaction that it matched will have it’s account changed to your current account too. This will cause both your account balances to become screwed up.

There are two workarounds to this until I get 3.0.7 out.

1). Enter the transaction. Then go back to the transaction that got moved to your current account and move it back to the original account. This can be bothersome if the transaction it matches happened long ago or if you don’t know what account it came from.

2) Probably the better solution is to create a new transaction and modify the category field first. This will cause PocketMoney not to try to do a transaction lookup and then you can enter enter the To/From and the amount.

3) If you duplicate a transaction and then modify the duplicated transaction it will also not try to do the transaction lookup.

I’ll have this bug fixed in 3.0.7 and I will also have 3.0.7 backwards compatible to iOS 3.1.3 so that original iPhone and iPod Touch first generation users can continue to use PM.