Today I’m happy to announce that IronMoney.com and Iron Money for iOS are now available in French! Support, however, will continue to be an English-only service.
Blog d’Iron Money is also now available; this blog and the French blog will offer many of the same posts as new announcements are made. Any French-specific announcements will only be made on that blog.
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Today I’m happy to announce that IronMoney.com is now available in Spanish!
Iron Money has been an English-only service since its inception. Starting today, you’ll be able to use the web app in Spanish; soon, Iron Money for iOS will be available in Spanish as well, and all future products will be available in both English and Spanish. Support, however, will continue to be an English-only service.
Blog de Iron Money is also now available; this blog and the Spanish blog will offer many of the same posts as new announcements are made. Any Spanish-specific announcements will only be made on that blog (such as when Iron Money for iOS is updated to include support for Spanish).
Join the thousands of others that have signed up for Iron Money and let me know if you have any feedback!
Iron Money’s Terms of Use outline what you are allowed to do with Iron Money and what Iron Money is allowed to do with your data. Today a few changes were made to the Terms of Use.
The clause “The Service will not arbitrarily examine your personal data” was replaced with “The providers of the Service may examine the personal information stored by the Service in a way that does not identify individual users.” The purpose of this change was to make it clear that your data may be looked at while not tied to your identity on Iron Money. In essence, no one will ever look up your personal information, but may look at the entire service’s information. Why? Iron Money can be made better by allowing humans to analyze the data stored. A hypothetical feature that could be built because of this clause is a category-suggesting feature; it might be a lot easier for new users to categorize their transactions if they had a list of categories to start with, and there may be no better way to build that list than to look at how users are already categorizing their transactions.
Additionally, a sentence regarding not using “the Service for acts deemed evil by law or the owner of the Service” was removed. This clause was rather ambiguous (what is evil?) and was not necessary.
Some other changes were made that are relatively insignificant. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about the updated Terms of Use.
Today I’m happy to talk about a few improvements to Iron Money.
First, uploading account data is now up to 60% faster. A number of changes went into this, some of which make different parts of the site faster than before, but the changes are most visible when uploading account data.
Second, the graphs throughout the site have been overhauled to always look great. Previously, the graphs would sometimes have a hard time displaying a lot of data, or sometimes wouldn’t render correctly; these issues have been fixed with a completely new graphing system.
Last, but not least, the design has been updated to look great on small and large screens alike. The site used to have a maximum width that wouldn’t take advantage of larger screens; it now will take advantage of any space you give it. Additionally, the mobile-specific changes are now available on any device that has a smaller screen.
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The following post is an update about some recent improvements to Iron Money. A lot of adjustments have been made in the past month (a few optimizations to the mobile-specific version of the site, the search page has been integrated with the main transactions list, the white quick transaction edit pane now has a delete button, etc.), but I wanted to highlight two major improvements.
First, numerous speed improvements have been made throughout the entire site. The most significant improvement has been on the “Summary” page, which is about twice as fast; most pages that have a table of transactions are faster as well (even with hundreds of transactions). The speed improvements even apply to the API, which means faster syncing for Iron Money for iOS.
Second, each account category page has a table and graph that shows the transaction amount sums by month; these can help you understand how your spending or income is changing over time at a category-specific level (the income and spending graph on the Summary page already shows how your overall income and spending is changing over time).
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Last month, Wesabe announced that it was discontinuing its personal finance tools at the end of this month. Iron Money is a personal finance web app similar to Wesabe (although not as full-featured). I think that Iron Money might be a good fit for some Wesabe users, especially if you manually uploaded your files and/or used Wesabe for iPhone.
Iron Money has supported Wesabe’s CSV and Excel files for a while; today I’m adding support for Wesabe’s JSON files (found in Wesabe’s snapshot file) and more robust support for Wesabe’s CSV and Excel files.
Iron Money will now put any tags from Wesabe into a transaction’s description. Coupled with Iron Money’s robust transaction search, you’ll be able to search through tagged transactions. For example, you can search for “#dining” to find transactions tagged with a “dining” tag.
Wesabe has also started to make its source code available. Provided that they release the source code for their automatic updater and it can be used with Iron Money’s existing infrastructure, I intend to actively participate in the further development of Wesabe’s automatic updater. I don’t expect to actively work on this until next year, but I want to show my support for an open source version of Wesabe’s automatic updater.
I encourage you to join the thousands of others that have signed up for Iron Money and let me know if you have any feedback, especially regarding the new importers for Wesabe data.
The following post is a bit of an update on some recent improvements to Iron Money.
First, numerous speed improvements have been made throughout the entire site. The most significant improvement has been on the “Summary” page, which is about twice as fast. Most pages that have a table of transactions are faster as well.
Second, Iron Money’s location features have been greatly improved. You can now see the location of a transaction when you go to its main page. Additionally, when you add a transaction, Iron Money can use your current location if your browser supports it and you allow it. Furthermore, you can now edit a transaction’s location.
Third, the account category page has received a handy update. In addition to displaying all of the transactions within a category, the account category page now displays a breakdown of the spending if the category has children categories. For example, if you have a “Food” category that has “Groceries” and “Dining Out” as children categories, Iron Money now shows you the amount of money spent in each category.
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Today I’m excited to introduce brand new graphs for Iron Money.
Once you sign in, you’ll see two graphs on the summary page. The first graph shows your income and spending over time. The income and spending graph uses your categories to decipher what is income and what is spending. Your transfers are automatically taken out (as long as you put them in a transfer category). The graph also uses the splits that you add to transactions to accurately reflect your income and spending.
The second graph on the summary page is a net worth graph. This graph shows your net worth over time; it’s the sum of all of your income and spending across all of your accounts. This graph is a great motivator; if you see this graph moving higher and higher over time, you’ll know that you’re spending less than you’re making.
Additionally, on each account page, you’ll find a graph that shows the account’s balance over time. This account-specific graph is handy when you want to see the balance of a specific account over time.
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Today I’m happy to introduce better tools for editing transactions.
Every page that has a table of already-added transactions (the summary, account, category, transactions, and upload pages) now has a new “Edit” column on the right-hand side. Each transaction has an “Edit” button; once you push it, a popover will appear that has the transaction details inside. Simply edit the transaction and click “Save” at the bottom of the popover to save your changes. Once the change is saved, the table will update with the new changes you just made.
Sign up for Iron Money today and let me know if you have any feedback!
Today I’m happy to introduce account exporting. Now, you can export each of your accounts as a CSV, OFX, or QIF file, which can be used in other programs and web services. If you need features from a different program (e.g. custom graphs in Excel), or if you ever want to move your accounts out of Iron Money and into another program/service, the new export options will help you do that.
Iron Money also has an extensive API for developers to use; it’s the same API that powers the recently announced app for iPhone OS. The API allows programatic access to user data (once a user authorizes the application to access their data), which means developers can build whatever they want to on top of Iron Money—the API terms of use are the limit.
Sign up for Iron Money today! If you have any other file types that you’d like to see Iron Money support, please feel free to get in touch.
