Hope this post finds you doing well.  Things have been going very well for us here at Midnight Apps over the last several weeks.  We are almost ready to ship the initial beta copy of Cha-Ching 2.0 to our MacHeist Customers and other forum members.  This post is simply to let you guys know that we are still here and in fact thriving.  The new site design is nearly complete (although not without a few issues we are still working through.)

Hope you like the new look and stay tuned for a more in-depth post regarding the upcoming Cha-Ching 2.0 really soon.

Phew, big announcments today. Let’s start with the update:

Today we are releasing version 1.2.3 which include the following features and bug fixes:

- Sorting by Tags now added to Print panel
- Fixed Macheist Registration Issues
- QIF notes are now imported

Fire up Cha-Ching and get the latest! Now here is our new upgrade policy for 2.0 and Macheist users:

Midnight Apps Upgrade Policy

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions regarding upgrade pricing and how it applies to each group of people and we’ve put together the following information we hope is helpful:

Customers Who Purchased Cha-Ching from our Online Store at any point in the product history before March 27th:

All current Cha-Ching customers will receive a special bonus price of $20 to upgrade to the 2.0 version when released. This is our thank you for your continued support through our growing times and to show our appreciation for your patronage.

Customers Who Purchased Cha-Ching from our Online Store after March 27th:

As part of a special promotion, you will receive the 2.0 version of Cha-Ching for FREE. We will keep a record of all purchases and you will be able to get a 2.0 serial number for no additional cost.

Customers Who Purchased Cha-Ching as part of the previous (not current) Mac Heist Bundle :

Anyone who contributed to the charity/bundle promotion through Mac Heist will also receive FREE upgrades to 2.0 as a special thank you. Additionally, as promised, all previous Mac Heist users get entry into our private beta. Help us help you by providing valuable feedback and information on our upcoming brand new version.

If you have any questions or comments, please post them in the comments or send us an email at support@chachingapp.com. Enjoy the latest!

Alright, well, maybe from now on we’ll just say ‘when it’s done’.

We were ready to release the first time we mentioned a date, and then anticipated having issues worked out by the end of (last week) and the fix we attempted didn’t work. We are not comfortable with saying ’sometime in the next 3 weeks’ because we were that confident it was going to happen. We were wrong, we admit that, we’re moving on.

We are under no pressure. When we stated the timeframe, that to us what the reality at the time. The bug wasn’t something that we would be comfortable releasing with and then fixing later just to meet a deadline. We felt the obligation and the responsibility to release when this bug was fixed, and not before. We misjudged the severity of the bug and have been working everyday to get it right.

We were more concerned with the negative impression it would have if we released the product as it was, even as a Beta and the bug completely screwed things up for users. We chose the lesser of two evils, continued development and work, and not worry about saving face. If current or potential customers can’t understand or won’t understand our decision was for their benefit, we have no control over that.

All we can continue to do is work very hard, very long and very steadfastly toward a release that will improve the quality of the application, please users and not worry as much about ‘looking good’. We made a mistake, we apologized, we made it again, sucks, but we had to do it, and now we’re moving forward.

Matthew Arevalo
Midnight Apps

We are aware there are some users having an issue with registration and we’re doing what we can to get it sorted out. Some of the issue appears to be with users that have extended, non standard accents in their names. THis is confusing things because we can’t tell exactly if it is one issue or two.

Juan and I were at Macworld and working the MacHeist booth. We have a great relationship with them, but it was pretty stressful as the bundle has sold an amazing amount of copies and everyone is scrambling with the amount of support e-mails that have been coming in as a result of having a user base spike up so much.

I can say this: We are close to MacHeist, good friends, and we are all professionals. We will have a list of every person who ordered the bundle through the backend MH database. We will try and get everything sorted out ASAP. As far as 2.0 Beta invitations and upgrade/price concerns, we are still discussing this.

We need to decompress from the whole Macworld/Travel/MacHeist thing but we are all home now and ready to get caught up. All I can say is, we’re apologetic for the delays and appreciate your patience.

We are a very small team, working daily on development and support and it can be a little overwhelming. Please try and limit your e-mails to issues and bugs you encounter and post questions/check here for updates on any registration issues. We are up to 50-75 e-mails a day all asking about registration and we’re trying to get it sorted out.

You WILL get your license, your purchase is important to us, bundle or not, we’re not blowing it off.

Blood. Sweat. Tears. Beers. The latest is finished. Here to get it out of the way is a list of changes:

Features Added

- Local Backups now added
- You can now pay a bill from the Master Vault
- Many Leopard Graphical Enhancements
- Budget items are now sorted by tags
- More rules added to Smart Folder Creation
- Transactions sorted by date enhanced
- Can now edit date ranges manually in filter drawer
- Connected shared folders can now be disconnected manually
- Bonjour sharing now show transaction images
- Date range filtering now more precise
- Many more small enhancements throughout!

Bugs Fixed

- attachments popup now reflects files attached immediately after save
- display popup in bill manager fixed
- unlocking issue fixed
- can now delete from the Untagged Library
- Bonjour issues fixed
- fixed issues with Bill Manager filtering
- placing no tags in smart edit now works properly
- online browsing optimized
- smart folder edit now works properly (Leopard Issue)
- currency formatting fixed (Leopard Issue)
- fixed autofill issues in tags field (Leopard Issue)
- Budgets are now drawn correctly (Leopard Issue)
- .Mac Revert now works properly (Leopard Issue)

We hope you enjoy the very long hours (we are Midnight Apps after all) Juan put in, coding and coaxing the the program along and of course special thanks to all the people who assisted, you know who you are. B-Dog, S-Nizzle, uh.. F-Minus, etc.