We released a new look for our analysis page, with bigger, intuitive and more interactive charts:

• The pie chart is labeled “in-place”, so you don’t need to roll your eye-balls over to another part of the page to figure out what tag a particular slice represents
• A bar chart beneath the pie chart shows the income v/s expenditure trend for the particular tag you want to dig into
• A slider makes it smooth to go back and forth in periods of time (For those who remember, this slider is a MUCH improved version of the one we had back in June last year.)

Analyzing and understanding where your money is going is the first step towards good financial health. We hope our analysis tools are helping you realize your financial goals, more efficiently than ever before.

We have revamped a lot of our bank syncing code which should result in much more robust data retrieval from a number of banks. Many folks had encountered trouble with National City, Compass Bank, Key Bank and a few credit unions. Troubles with these banks should now be gone.

We have also added support for Capital One Credit Cards and PayPal in response to our vocal users. Enjoy! :)

Given that we had already invested so much time in Buxfer’s iPhone interface, we figured we could easily make a few interfaces for other sites we use frequently on the iPhone. We made one for news.ycombinator.com which people liked. So, we figured we will do one for reddit as well! And the amazing folks over at reddit let us make it “official” in a way too! Thanks, Steve and Alexis!

Here’s a short demo: 

We have added a few more banks to our list of supported banks.

• ING Direct (USA)
• E*Trade (banking and brokerage)
• TD BankNorth

These have been the banks most requested by our users.

We have also made a few important performance enhancements which should significantly reduce memory consumption. This means much faster uploads and bank synchronizations for our users!

Enjoy! And keep the feedback flowing, as always!

Update: [July 1st, 2008]  We have improved our support for Regions Bank, Sun Trust Bank and Citizens Bank. Please check it out and let us know if you still encounter difficulties.

We have introduced two new features catering to the needs of our fast growing international userbase:

• Multiple currency support: Each financial account can be associated with a different currency. If you have an account back in your home country, or if you travel a lot within different countries, this is just what you have been waiting for! :)
• Foreign language support: Buxfer is available in 20 languages – English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, and many more. Login to your account and help us translate the site into your language.

With the iPhone due for a worldwide launch, we have localized even our iPhone app. Check it out at http://i.buxfer.com

A while back, we had released support for international financial institutions with our Firefox extension. Now, with support for multiple currencies and local languages, Buxfer is the complete solution for your financial needs … anywhere in the world!

Folks, we have extensively redesigned the website, in an effort to make it look better and more fun to use. We have a brand new logo, and a pleasing blue color scheme.

We also made several usability enhancements alongwith the UI redesign. In particular, we have vastly simplified entering transactions manually, and being able to search through transactions effectively.

Let us know what you like and don’t like!

We released an update to Firebux, our Firefox add-on, which lets you synchronize with any bank across the world. This update includes several critical bugfixes, which were preventing Firebux from working with certain banks (e.g., Chase). If you have been facing problems with Firebux, please download an update by clicking on Tools » Add-ons » Find updates in Firefox.

To install the latest version, click here.

Just a quick note: we have made a few changes which should reduce response times drastically. Most of our international users and those who are behind slow Internet connections should see response times improved by a factor of 4-6x. Let us know if this is not the case and if you are still suffering…

Until now, we had a very restrictive format in which we accepted CSV files for import. This was a big pain not only because of the strict format, but because one would need to manually convert (into the format we required) a bank-downloaded CSV every single time one wanted to import.

Not anymore.

We now accept almost all formats for CSVs as long as each transaction line contains at least the following fields:

date, description and amount

Each line may also contain an optional tag field.

These fields may occur in any order which we will try our best to identify. We will also try our best to get rid of the garbage that most banks like spewing in their CSV files. If we don’t succeed, we will ask you for help — only one time per account. So once you have set this up, future CSV imports into that account will all be achieved with a single click.

Enjoy!

A couple behind-the-scenes changes:

• Better duplicate detection: Our duplicate detection system is now much smarter. If you report transactions manually (e.g., from your mobile phones) and then sync your bank account, we will correctly identify the duplicates — even when the dates don’t match exactly! There’s also a “Find duplicates” link for those who want to inspect their accounts to search for old duplicates.

  This detection extends to our account transfer identification rules as well. If you mark a transaction as a transfer from account A to account B, we will go looking for a possible duplicate transaction in account B, and get rid of it automatically.

• Better summary reports: We have significantly enhanced our daily and weekly email reports to provide you with more in-depth and relevant information about your Buxfer account. Daily reports now provide a summary of your debts with your friends. Weekly reports provide you with a summary of your account balances as well.