a brief pause in labor
3 Sep 07
Cha-Ching 1.1 has been released. We’ve been working hard to bring you some new features and we hope you enjoy them. In addition we have added a few interface updates. Here’s a rundown of some of the additions:
Untagged Section
We hope this will help users and their workflow and this has been requested by our community. Allowing a quick way to see items that have not been tagged, we hope to utilize this new category in more ways in future releases.
QIF and OFX Importing Improved
This was a big one. We know there will always be comments on what we were NOT able to get into this release (sorry, no ponies) but this took a lot of work. Previous files that simply would not import.. well, they do now. If you continue to have issues I urge you to send us any files you have problems with and we’ll get on it. You now have the ability to select the date format which should really help out.
Export Function
You now have the ability to export your data into CSV format. We are investigating other file formats for future releases.
Updated Interface
Poke around. Do you like it? We had to polish a few things while we were working :)
New Info Panel Added to Accounts and Folders
We’re working on this info panel to provide a quick way to view and edit information and we’re interested in your feedback on it.
New “Due Today” badge added to Upcoming transactions
Pretty self explanatory. Now you know when to worry, or to see what you expected :)
Auto-Complete Enhanced
Finally, we’ve changed a little of the way auto-complete works based on community feedback. You shouldn’t have to.. fight with it so much. So we made it less aggressive.
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We haven’t stopped. Even today we’re working on bug fixes and enhancements. Join our community to give feedback. Encouraging comments are always welcome. We are a two man operation, and trust me, I can’t code. Which means Juan is banging out all this stuff on his own. I understand we still have some growth and features users still want and we’re focusing on them.
We’ll be doing more updates and more beta testing moving forward. We’re discussing ways to shorten development time. Leopard approaching is going to help us show you some really amazing things. We look forward to working with you.
Have a nice holiday.
Matthew
Woohoo! All great changes, and I’m especially pleased (as is my wife) with the autocomplete changes. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more good things with Cha-Ching. :)
I just downloaded the demo to check it out as I’ve been looking for a good financial app. When I try to import an OFX file, Cha-Ching hangs for a minute and then shows a list of check boxes with empty fields beside like it’s importing something, but there’s no data there.
When I try importing a QIF file, it asks me what kind of date format the importer should use (ie: 00/00/2007) but not the case when using an OFX file.
It’s still useless. It can’t handle any other number format other than the U.S. one (a dot as decimal separator, and a comma as digit group separator), which means that the Western European (which is also the ISO 31-0 standard) is not supported at all - you just get weird results.
I’m posting this as a public comment, because I’ve reported this 2 times already now. It didn’t get solved, nor did I ever get a reply.
This isn’t a 1.1 release. It’s a 0.1.1 release.
If a financial app isn’t even capable of auto detecting the number notation, then I consider it alpha-grade software.
Well.. I don’t know what to say. I understand that you are going through a rough time with the separation and everything, but I’m starting to get very annoyed since my license still doesn’t work. I got a license with macheist. I sent three or four e-mails that I didn’t get any response to, and I got a very harsh reply to the sixth one stating that you were working on it.
The first one was sent the 11th of may. I got a reply on the 31th of july stating that “We have received all of your e-mails and there is no need to continue to send more. We are going through our backlog of macheist entries and appreciate your patience, thank you.”.
I have been patient, but now it’s the 7th of october and my license still doesn’t validate. That’s five months! Seriously!