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   trevort
   Member

   I have worked with the budget tab a fair bit trying to adjust to how the new version lays things out, and I must say it is MUCH better than I originally thought.

   However I find that there is One key feature that it needs added back to make it complete:

   When you look at your budget tab, you can set your custom view to whatever you like. For me thats a biweekly budget that starts on a specific date (A friday) and turns to a new budget two weeks later. When I look at a category in budget and I get the lovely new graph, it does not go by that custom period. I have added in budgets but then when I am looking at the main budget the numbers don't add up just right. I am not looking to plan day by day but two weeks at a time.

   So the only option that really needs to be added, is a start date when you choose your period for the budget. So I can choose "Period: 2x Weekly" and a starting date for that period of March 12, 2010. That would make everything come in to line. If i had a single yearly transaction, I could just make a budget for the pay period it comes out and everything would work. Same with monthly. So really we want weekly, monthly yearly just like you have it but with the ability to set when those periods start, not just being restricted to sunday or the first of the month/year.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Akhat
   

   Replying to @trevort's post:

   Hi, I see your point, and thank you for appreciating the budget tab :) There is one reason why we've designed budget periods in this way: most customers need it simple, and if we add more features, it benefits some users, and confuses more of them. So, we've decided to stick to a wise decision, and keep it a bit simpler than it could be, but easy to use. So, I'd suggest to think about Budget not in terms of days at all. If we think of weeks, it generally does not matter, which day a week you expect a transaction, should it be March 12 or March 8 - it is week March 8-14 anyway. Try to work with budget with this approach.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   I do think of my budget in terms of weeks, EXACTLY as you say. EXCEPT my weeks do not start on a sunday! It is kinda useless when your budget has to overlap two financial periods.

   I have been a Money users for over a year now and bought it back when it was $9.99 on the app store because of the advanced ability it had.

   Now Your saying you have taken out a very basic feature (that most other apps support) because your users are not capable of understanding it? Yet you have left custom periods in for viewing the budget tab and transactions tab. Why would you allow custom periods at all then?

   It seems pretty poor that you do a major upgrade to your app, remove a whole bunch of features from your paying customers and then start telling them they are managing there finances wrong.

   Do any other users have this problem?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   And just to help clarify just a bit more, you wrote:

   "If we think of weeks, it generally does not matter, which day a week you expect a transaction, should it be March 12 or March 8 - it is week March 8-14 anyway. Try to work with budget with this approach."

   The reason why this DOES matter is that the 8th of March is in one pay period with one budget, the 12th of March is the start of my next pay period and my new budget for the next two weeks until March 26th when I get paid again. So looking at it just by calendar weeks mean that I have to start my budget 2 days after I got paid, and I get paid again 2 days before the end of my budget period.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   mhgmike
   Member

   Yes, I'm having the same problems with this that trevort is talking about.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   Bipp
   Member

   Me 2, I would like this added!

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Akhat
   

   Replying to @trevort's post:

   There is one point that I noticed that I did not know before. You said that your week in the application starts on Sunday. In fact, my week starts on Monday. The case is that the app loads your iPhone regional settings, which determine when your week starts. If you want your week to start on a different day, you need to go to your iPhone settings, and change your region.

   Please let me know whether that helps.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   trevort
   Member

   I took a look into this and did some googling. I am in Canada so our weeks start on Sunday, same with the US. If you switch to another region, such as UK English then your week will start on Monday.

   Unfortunatly thats the only options available. No friday, and also it would have changed the calendar and everything else on the phone that uses that setting (which I would have been ok with).

   Thank you for the suggestion though. What if you were to add this to the iBearMoney preferences in Settings? It would be available for your power users, but nicely tucked away as to not confuse your new users.

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   Akhat
   

   Replying to @trevort's post:

   I think this would be a useful option, but let me discuss this tomorrow with the team, and I will summarize it here.

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    trevort
    Member

    Thank you. I would even be willing to pay an extra buck to get this as an in app add-on if thats what it takes.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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