You read right! We at Ionlab have decided to make the desktop app FREE for all our TrackEveryCoin customers starting today.

What is a Desktop App you ask?

Please go through our earlier post on Desktop App to learn what it is all about and how it can help you.

How Do I download and Install the Desktop App?

You can now download the desktop app for TrackEveryCoin for free by following the following simple steps

Please go to our website – www.trackeverycoin.com

Click on the “Get Desktop App” button on the screen to notice a pop up window and then click on the “Install Now” button and follow the instructions to install the desktop application on your computer.

Note: The desktop application is a one way sync, all your data on the desktop application is backed up on your web account. But the data on your web account is not transferred back to the desktop application!

Hope you enjoy using the desktop-app!

Firstly, we wish a Very Happy and Prosperous Diwali to all our Customers!

During this Indian festival season, we are super excited to bring a new pie chart to all Track Every Coin customers.

Track Every Coin team presents – 3D Pie chart with better user interface. You can now hover your mouse on any of the pie to see the amount, category-name and percentage share of the expenses.

Log onto your account and try it for yourself. Let us know what you think about it.

Secondly we have optimized the performance of our mobile website (http://m.trackeverycoin.com) to load faster. It now has a better and more updated backend engine. It is faster and better looking on your phone.

Last but not the least, we have added more options for adding recurring reminders. Along with expenses and income, you can now add different frequency to reminders. Newly added frequency list are

• Weekly
• Bi-Weekly
• Monthly
• Bi-Monthly
• Quarterly
• Half Yearly
• Yearly

Good news for all iPhone and iPad users, you can now add out Track Every Coin‘s  Mobile website as a shortcut on your home screen and have Track Every Coin’s logo displayed on it.

Here is how you can do that. First, open safari browser and visit: “m.trackeverycoin.com”

Now touch the “+” symbol and touch the “Add to Home Screen” option as shown below:

You can choose your own name. Notice the Track Every Coin logo is auto loaded when you do this.

Now touch “Add” button:

This will add the icon on your home screen. You can now access Track Every Coin’s mobile website easily from your home screen.

Feel free to comment on this. We look forward for your feedback.

Firstly, a big thank you to all our customers who have been sending us feedback and suggestions for Track Every Coin. It has given us a good opportunity to further improve the product and to serve you better!

The current release if focused on making changes based on the prioritized feedbacks. This is what in store for the first batch:

1. Many users wanted to add recurring expenses based on the following:

• Quarterly
• Bi-Monthly
• Half-Yearly

Advantages of having these recurring expenses is to enable you to add your Life Insurance premium which could be a Quarterly / Half-yearly payments.

You can now add recurring expenses based on the following

• Weekly
• Bi-Weekly
• Monthly
• Bi-Monthly
• Quarterly
• Half Yearly
• Yearly

2. Any expense marked as a “Reimbursement” is not shown in the Expense graph anymore. In other words, any reimbursable expense is only present in the expense listing and not in the expense graph.

Hope you find these features useful! Kindly continue to send us you feedback and suggestions and enable us to serve you better.

“I recently bought a new graphics card for my computer and realized that it has 3 years of Warranty! Now now… where do I save the receipt for 3 years?”

“My CA has been asking me for all my payslips to file my tax return.. Wish I had saved them in one location!”

If this seems to be your problem, Track Every Coin has a solution for this! Yes you can now attach your receipts under “Add expense” and attach your payslips to your “Add income” feature.

Consider an example where you have bought a graphics card and you have a 3 years warranty. Using your mobile phone you can quickly click a picture of the receipt…

Now login to your Track Every Coin account and click on “Add Expense”

Select the file (can be jpg or pdf) and save it. We are currently limiting the size of the file to 1MB. Once the file is attached, it is displayed in your grid.

Now be worry-free about keeping your receipts handy, for most of us dont find the recepits when we need them the most. Claiming your warranty becomes very easy.

We help you save your documents for life

Do tell your friends about this new feature!

Continuing our update from the mobile framework, Track Every Coin’s mobile website (m.trackeverycoin.com) now has the following updates:

In short, all the features available on the trackeverycoin website currently is now made available for your mobile!

1. Reminders

Add a reminder on the go from you cell phone. You remember something, add it quickly onto your account. This can be a bill payment / insurance payment or even birthday reminders! Track Every Coin will send you a recurring/ a non recurring reminder email when it is due.

You can also mark your reminder as paid or add it to expense.

Marking it ‘as paid’ will remove the reminder from the list but will not add it to the expense grid. On the other hand, ‘add to expense’ will mark the reminder as paid and will add it to the expense grid.

2. Who owes me

View all the expenses others owe you. We have added this on the mobile access as it makes it easy to see how much your friend owes you when you meet him!

After the settlement, you can mark them as money received.

3. I Owe

We have also added “I Owe” for mobile access. Expenses shared against you or in case you want to make a note of your ‘I Owes’, you can do the same!

We hope you enjoy these new features. Please feel free to share your comments / send us your feedback.

This feature has been requested by our users and we are very happy to bring this live to you. Yes, you can now keep track of the money you owe someone else.

Just click on “Add” under your I owe block in your Track Every Coin account.

Select the person from your contact list, enter the amount, description and category and save it. This will get listed under your “I Owe” block.

I Owe works in two ways

1. When you add an I owe yourself.
2. When your contact adds an expense against you.

Both this expense against a person will be added up and shown at once.

Complete I Owe:

This is also a new feature we have added. When you click on the tick mark of an I owe, you now have the option of adding it to your expense or just marking it as completed.

When you add it to your expense, all the list of expenses that you owe someone will be added in your expense grid one by one.

Take a case study of 2 roommates. When they share expenses against each other, expenses are shown in their respective I Owes. When they add it to their expense, the whole list is also added to their expense grid along with the categories.

This helps you capture all your expenses!

The sprit of Holi this time gave us new ideas to work on our mobile access site. We have updated the following things on our mobile access site:

• Added colors for better look and feel
• Added expense and income grid for a quick overview
• Bottom navigation to navigate between different screens

So how do you access this?

From any phone, open an internet browser (Eg: opera mini, native browsers) and

visit: http://m.trackeverycoin.com

Hope you enjoy this. Feel free to provide us feedback on the same.

You can now download your financial report by clicking on the download report icon in your Track Every Coin account.

You can download the report for any date range. The report consists of the following:

• Summary for the selected date range
• Category wise expense and income distribution
• Who owes you, and your I Owes
• The complete expense and income data for the selected date range.

You can also search by description or category and generate report for it.

Eg: Search for all your tax saving expenses, generate a report and submit it to your Auditor.

You can also generate report for a selected date range. Eg: If you are on a business trip, you can select your date range of the trip and generate report accordingly.

Do comment about this feature.

We are super excited to have the expense and income graphs live now.

Visit your “Transactions” tab in Track Every Coin and look out for the new graph!

Default month view gives you you expense distribution over the whole month. You can mouse hover on any point to read the value.

Change the date range to quarter you will see weekly totals, and when you change it to Yearly, you will see monthly totals. It is easy to analyze your whole year’s expense pattern.

Similar to expense, you can see your income pattern. Eg: Select year range and see how you have performed month over month.

Find out if you are getting the right increments yearly? How about that bonus you were promised!

Do let us know if you like this graph and feel free to contact us if you have any feedback.

Very small, but very useful feature of Track Every Coin is released. Yes the expense and income grid can be sorted in ascending or descending order to understand it better.

Consider an example:

In the above example let us say you have spend 46K last month and it has kept you wondering what you have spent on. It is now easy to understand your expense.

Just click on the arrow next to amount to sort the grid in descending / ascending order.

Now view your grid to see all your top expenses.

Sorting can also be used with search. Eg: you can search for all your shopping category and then sort it to see all your largest shopping bills.

Go ahead and try out the sorting feature and understand your expenses better!

Continuing from our previous post, you can now split bill, mark as reimbursement and add a recurring expense from your mobile device.

Here is how you can do it, from your mobile browser visit: “m.trackeverycoin.com“, login to your account and click on “Add expense”, notice the new changes:

There are 3 new options:

• Frequency – You can mark an expense as One time, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly and Yearly. Once you mark a frequency to an expense, it is automatically added in future.
• Reimbursement – When on a business trip, it is easy to mark an expense as a reimbursement. You can consolidate your business expenses on your web account and also email the list. Login to your web account at: www.trackeverycoin.com
• Split bills – Click on this if you wish to split the existing expense.

Split bills:

To split bill, select the name and add the amount. Click on Add to add more people to the bill.

The drop down shows the list of your contacts. Click on “Add New Contact” to add a new contact to your account.

Add new contact:

Enter your new contact’s name, email address and mobile number. Invite him to Track Every Coin so that he knows about your split.

It is this easy to share an expense with a friend / roommate.

Do let us know what you think about this feature. Spread the word if you love it!

And yes, the mobile access works on any phone!

The long awaited mobile access for Track Every Coin is done. It doesn’t matter which mobile phone you have. Right from a Nokia, i-Phone, Android, Sony, Micromax to an I-Pad, you can now access your Track Every Coin account on your mobile device by just visiting http://m.trackeverycoin.com

You can click on “Remember me” on the login screen, so that next time you will be taken to the summary screen directly (saves time when you are in a hurry).

Just click on “Add Expense” or “Add Income” and save the corresponding expense / income.

We have kept the UI very simple so that you can enter expense on the go at a lighting speed.

Going forward we will be adding more and more features for the mobile access like sharing expense on the mobile, adding contacts on the mobile site etc. Keep an eye out for it and do give us your feedback.

Go ahead and bookmark “m.trackeverycoin.com” on your mobile devices and create shortcuts on your home screen (i-phone and android phones) so that you can access Track Every Coin at a flash.

With the start of a new year we are happy to announce our most exciting feature called the “Social Networking of Money”.

So what do we mean by social networking of money?

Imagine you go out with your friends and share some drinks. One person pays for it and others are to pay back later. We have all been there, done that – it gets increasingly harder to followup with friends on the money they owe you. Here is how Track Every Coin makes it simple for you and your friend…

Step 1:

After you login to your account, click on “Contacts” tab on the right corner of the screen (just below today’s date)

Step 2:

In the contacts tab, add your contact by adding his/her name and email address…

On clicking “Add”, the system will add your friend and send an invite automatically if the “Send an invite” is selected.

After adding your friend, he/she is added to your contacts list…

The “invite” button on the grid disappears after your friend has accepted the invitation. If your contact has not accepted the invite yet, you can send a reminder by clicking on the “Invite” button.

Step 3:

Upon adding someone in your network, you can quickly share expense against them…

After you share the expense, an email is automatically sent out to the person you shared the expense with. The expense shows up under his/her “I Owe” block and you can track it under your “Who owes me” block.

This networking feature is a hassle free way of sharing expenses with friends.

So now with Track Every Coin, you can not only track your own expenses but also split bills with friends.

When we launched Track Every Coin’s Dashboard, we also launched out bill reminder feature. In this blog post we will explain how our bill reminder feature is different and how to make best use of it.

Two most important feature in bill reminders are:

1. Be able to add recurring reminders (Eg: Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, Yearly)
2. Know all your future bill reminders

To be very effective in bill payments and not forget the due date, you need to add all your bills with the payment dates as a couple of days before the actual due date. Make sure you select the frequency so that you dont have to do this ever!

Eg:

• Electricity bill -> Make sure you select monthly.
• Car insurance -> Make sure you select yearly and forget about it!

Once you have added all your bills, we will send you an email reminder when the bill date has approached.

After you have paid your bill, make sure to mark the bill as paid. This will help you keep your list clean and it will automatically add future bills.

Eg:

Consider the case where we have to pay our Car insurance premium every year.

After you have paid your bill, hover your mouse on the reminder and click on the “tick” mark. This will give you two options:

You can fill the amount and add the bill to your expense on a click of a button or just mark the bill reminder as complete.

When you click on either one of the button, the current reminder is removed and the future reminder is added. In this case, the car insurance premium is due once a year. It will be added for the next year so that you don’t forget the next payment.

Note: the car insurance is now added for the next year and it is the last recurring bill on the list!

Consider another example: Say you have to pay your phone bill and you have added it as a monthly recurring bill reminder

Once you have paid your phone bill and you mark it as complete, it is automatically added to the next month and it is shown in the list…

When the next month’s bill date approaches, we will send you an email reminder!

This way you will never lose track of your bills and at the same time you are aware of all your future bill payments.

Go ahead and make the best use of the bill reminder feature of Track Every Coin.

Let us not miss any bill payments starting 2011!

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in Advance!