Yet another of those commonly requested features is now available. You can now change the group of a set of shared expenses - useful when you or your house-mates forget to apply a group to some of the transactions.

You can also settle a bunch of transactions in one fell swoop.

Hope this will make manipulating shared transactions much easier!

We have finally added support for multiple accounts and account balances within Buxfer. Now, you can segregate your expenses into different accounts - e.g., bank, credit-cards, etc. By default, all your expenses and incomes are logged into a “Cash account”. You can also move around transactions between various accounts to your heart’s wish. With each account, you can also see the associated balance (income - expense) which allows you to quickly understand how much money you have left in your coffers.

A thank you is in order for a lot of our patient users. This has been a feature demanded from quite some time. We apologize for taking so long to bring this feature to you. Hopefully, we will do a much better job from now on. So please keep your suggestions flooding in.

By popular demand, the trend line chart is back! In addition, you can view the trend lines for individual categories unlike in the previous incarnation. Enjoy!

We also made some performance improvements which should help Internet Explorer users considerably.

Update [19 Aug 4:07PM PST]: IE7 is working well, but IE6 is still suffering from some performance problems. We are working on this. Meanwhile, IE6 users: please consider switching to Firefox :)

Update [20 Aug 10:15AM PST]: Major problems (crashes) with IE6 have been resolved. We will keep optimizing until IE6 starts feeling very snappy.

• Settle your debts online; never write a check again
• No more excuses for your friends to not pay up on time
• Track all your expenses — debts as well as settlements — at one convenient location

• Absolutely! Payments are processed with Amazon Payments, and are guaranteed to be secure
• Your financial information stays safe with Amazon, and is NEVER made available to Buxfer

• You can send money to any email address for free
• Receiving money is also free until 31 Aug 2007. Read more about the fee schedule

Could it get any better? :)

One of the key benefits of using Amazon Payments is the ability to accrue balances in an online account (similar to your Paypal account balance). Transfers involving Amazon accounts are instantaneously processed, which means no waiting for the funds to arrive at the other end!

Amazon has released a fantastic platform here and we are proud to be their launch partners. Money transfer as a web service is tremendously powerful, and we’re sure there will be a lot more applications utilizing this very soon.

Add bux as your friend on Twitter, and you can start talking to Buxfer by sending direct messages. Oh, and you can get reminders via Twitter too.

Why is this cool?

• US and Canada users can now send SMS to short-codes. 40404 for US, and 21212 for Canada.
• All international users can now receive alerts on their mobile devices. Just make sure you register and verify your device with Twitter.

You can read more about it here.

Kudos to the Twitter folks for opening up such a cool service. Hope you guys will enjoy it as well.