Have you ever had a small panic attack caused by missing transactions just to realize a few moments later that the transactions list was filtered?

At the center of Finance41 is the transactions list. You can filter this list by selecting an account, selecting a tag or selecting a transaction type (expense, income, transfer). You can combine these filters of course.

We’ve added a “Remove filters” buttons which gets rid of all these filters so you can go back to the full transactions list in one click. It also doubles as a visual reminder that the list you’re seeing is filtered.

Cheers!

You can now select the day, not just the month, for charts date interval. More flexibility for more insight.

Speaking of date interval picking, choosing a custom date interval is also possible for the transactions view.

Cheers!

As our confidence grew stronger, we’ve gradually enabled the import feature for more and more people. Today it is enabled for all!

Again we’ve set the bar high: unlike most personal finance apps, we don’t want to throw on you the work of converting the file to be imported to a certain format. Who has the time to convert each file they want to import, week after week, month after month? We want the app to do the hard work, not us.

So we’ve enabled the app to learn from you the meaning of the imported data. It learns once, it never forgets.

Let’s have a look on how that works:

1. The “Import” action can be found in the main menu:

2. Pick a file, and it will display it. Then the learning process begins:

3. You’ll need to set 5 columns: Date, Account, Credit, Debit and Details. If there’s only one column for both credit and debit, set that column to “Amount”. Pick “Ignore” for all the rest, to get them out of the picture:

4. Most bank statements come with a header row, we’ll need to ignore it:

5. Then we need to teach the app to convert account numbers to the names we’re using for them in Finance41:

6. There’s no tracking without tags, so we’ll need to teach it to spot transaction details which define the tags:

7. Lastly, some transactions are transfers from one account to another. We’ll define a rule for it:

The first time it will seem like a lot of work, but all the rules are saved. The next time it will apply them automatically and it will be like magic.

We’re super excited to end the “all manual input” era. We’re dedicated to make this feature work with world wide formats, so please sent to us any files that fail to import.

As always, the greatest improvements come from you, so we want your feedback on this. Please write to us if something goes wrong or right at hi@finance41.com

Have a great week!

Hi,

We’ve developed a feature which enables users to import transactions from csv or Excel files, as exported by banking applications. This is a huge deal for most of us, but it was not easy to achieve. Banking applications export transactions history in many formats around the world. And even though it does a decent job with the samples we’ve provided, we’re sure it will run into troubles with some files from the real world.

So we need your help. We’ll push this feature into an “open beta”. If you want to try it, give us an email at hi@finance41.com, with the email address you’re using for your Finance41 account, and we’ll activate the feature for you. The open beta starts January the 4th.

The app does not keep any of the information found in the uploaded files, and there’s no automatic errors report system, we’ll rely on your feedback.

Importing hundreds of transactions instead of adding them one by one is great, and we want to bring this feature to all users as soon as possible.

Cheers!

Good is never good enough when you can do better.

We’ve redrawn all of Finance41, stripped it of its distracting bits, keeping and emphasizing the essentials.

Hope you like it.

Edit a transaction, grab the corner of the description input and make way for as many details as you like to fill in.
If you want to add some info to accounts, you can do that too, see the screenshots.

Cheers!

We all love Finance41 and many of you have spread the word to your friends, letting them know how easy it is to manage personal finances and how secure it feels to know exactly where every buck is.
That’s a good deed that should not go unrewarded. Starting today you’ll receive a free two months subscription extension for every friend who subscribes and points you out as the one who introduced him/her to Finance41. And they will gladly do it, there’s an extra month reward for them too.

We thank you for helping this start-up grow.

Expense Tracking is the key to your financial budget. For this reason, make sure that your finances are handled very well.
Our free expense tracker – Finance41 – offers professional features like:

– add transactions quickly
– categorize with tags
– analyze your spending
– maintain control of your finances

Most business gurus see the importance of using metrics for finance in their company’s growth. Now you can implement expense tracking also in your personal life. We have build a free expense tracker that will boost your savings.

This helps to cut down on the lengthy paper work which was earlier involved in the management of financial transactions. Moreover, conducting finance related work with the help of our app makes the process more accurate and efficient, thereby increasing the total productivity and stability of your life.

The management of personal finance just got easier with the use of expense tracking applications.
With Finance apps one can now :

-prepare monthly budgets
-keep bills in order
-set alerts for bill payments
-manage miscellaneous expenses.

Security is a primary concern of this type of applications. Therefore it’s our duty to keep your private data in a secure environment.
Once you are secure and stable, you can begin to think about building your future.