March 7, 2010

What’s New in CommonCents 3.0?

We are very excited to announce the release of CommonCents 3.0!

For starters, here’s a shout out to the users of CommonCents 2.0 who shared many ideas and suggestions to make CommonCents even better. You spoke and we listened and CommonCents is much better because of your input. We encourage you to continue offering your feedback and comments on this new version. Thanks for your continued support and encouragement.

Some things haven’t changed. CommonCents continues to offer a common sense approach to finances to help you see where you’ve been, know where you are, and plan for where you want to be. CommonCents 3.0 still uses the same time-tested envelope budget approach. It still has a user-friendly layout which provides a complete view of your finances on one screen. And…we still think it is simply the best budgeting and personal finance software available (don’t take our word for it – try it for yourself).

Like many of you, we like consistency so you’ll find the basic look and feel very familiar. On the surface, the main things you’ll notice are a few more icons on the toolbar and the Budget Envelope Balances section now employs an expandable/collapsible “tree structure.”

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find many other improvements. While we can’t list everything, here’s a short list:

1. Graphing and Improved Reports
We added the ability to generate customizable pie and bar graphs so you can visualize your financial data. We’ve also greatly enhanced the text-based reports. Here’s a list of the new graphs you can produce:
- Asset Graph
- Average Expenses Graph
- Envelope Balance Graph
- Goal Progress Graph
- Income Allocation Graph
- Income/Expense Graph
- Income/Expense Trend Graph
- Liability Graph
- Spending Analysis Graph
- Total Expenses Graph

2. Goal Setting/Tracking
Now you can set and track your financial goals for accounts and envelopes. CommonCents can even tell you what you need to do to reach your goals by your target date. Your goal progress can also be easily graphed and printed.

3. Reminders and Notifications
You can now set reminders for activities and events so you can stay ahead of your financial obligations and activities. CommonCents can also notify you when your scheduled income sources or memorized transactions are automatically entered.

4. Enhanced Importing
We’ve significantly improved the importing process and can better match transactions that were already imported or manually entered.

5. Exporting
We believe the data you put into CommonCents is your data to do with as you choose. So now you can export your data into several popular formats such as CSV, TXT, and QFX.

6. Archiving
In addition to being able to backup/restore your data, you can now archive old transactions so your data files are easy to manage. Should you need them in the future, restoring archived data can be done in a few simple steps.

7. Sort by Column in the Registers and Windows
Now you can sort transactions in your registers by just clicking on the column headers. This isn’t limited to just the registers or the sections of the main screen. You can do this in almost every window in this release of CommonCents.

8. Tagging
You can now add “tags” to each transaction or to each line item in a split transaction. This allows you to better track those deposits and expenses that are of particular importance to you.

9. Multiple Document Attachment
Sometimes you need to attach several documents to a single transaction. With 3.0, we’ve added that capability and it is easily done with a few simple clicks.

10. Automated Transaction Triggers
For power users of CommonCents who want to automate their finances, we’ve implemented a Trigger Manager that can run a sequence of scheduled or memorized transactions according to “triggers” that you define.

And there is more!

*IMPORTANT*: For current users of CommonCents 2.0, we’ve taken steps to make your conversion to the new version a smooth process. Before you install CommonCents 3.0, be sure to review the Instructions posted on this website.

To those who haven’t yet tried CommonCents, we encourage you to download your free 60-day trial today and put CommonCents to work for you.

Warm regards,

The enDevelopment Team
The makers of CommonCents software.

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