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.