Yesterday, we released a bunch of cool, new features which many of you had been asking for:

• Income analysis: In addition to analyzing where your money is being spent, you can also analyze how you are earning it. This feature is for the wealthy few who have so many sources of incomes that they want to analyze them :)
• Transaction splits: You can divide the total expense you incurred for a transaction in your bank statement across different tags. Especially useful for those supermarket purchases, where you buy a whole lot of diverse products (clothes, grocery, etc.)
  
• Tag import: Moving towards better, easier and more automatic categorization, we have compiled a list of popular tags alongwith keywords relevant for those tags. For example, the tag ‘Internet’ is associated with the keyword ‘comcast’, and will be automatically applied to any transaction matching ‘comcast’. As and when you enter new transactions (via manual import or auto-synchronization), we match your transactions with this list of tags and recommend relevant ones to you. You can also find the ‘Import tags’ link on the ‘Manage tags’ page listing all of your tags.
  
  The screenshot above shows some tags relevant to the transactions in my personal account, you will get personalized recommendations based on your transactions
• Amount search: You can type in a query like ‘amount:243.92′ to find all transactions with an expense or income of $243.92. Quite useful when you are trying to recollect what that age-old undescriptive transaction in your bank statement really was!

Enjoy! :)

The new year has brought on a lot of accolades, tons of new users and a lot of great feedback. However, we also noticed a consistent refrain: Buxfer is very cool and useful, but it’s slow - particularly for our international users! Well, that’s no good and it can certainly be a show-stopper.

So, we bought a new very powerful machine and we will be migrating to that server on Sunday. The planned downtime is from 9pm PST to 12midnight PST. If you find Buxfer unavailable or behaving erratically during that time, please cut us some slack :)

This is just the first step towards enhancing the performance of our system. We know there are quite a few places where we can optimize a lot. We will not stop until our interface is as responsive as GMail, for example, is.

Update: The migration has happened, folks, and we definitely feel a speed difference. Do you find Buxfer to be faster? Whatever the verdict, let us know so we will know what’s working and what isn’t!