Enhancement ideas

ming's Avatar

ming

23 Oct, 2009 04:41 PM

As a MS money convert, I miss a few features from that product or never saw in that product that I really wish it had and perhaps MD can incorporate. I haven't seen them discussed either but thought it might be interesting to others as well.

In Reminders: in MS money, you have a few choices on how you want the reminder amount is set. It can be fixed, or variable or variable based on an auto calculation from the last X # of transactions and you can choose the # of transactions. This is helpful for forecasting and more accurately predict what the transaction amount will be.

Shortcut to accounts in the home page I think that speaks for itself. I don't want to have to scroll down 70 accounts in order to get to the most common handful of accounts that I "touch" every day. I see that there's a shortcut reference in the preferences (home page customization) but I have not been able to find anything that references what's in that shortcut "section" or how to customize it.

Shortcut keys: I believe I read somewhere that the shortcut keys will be improved greatly in the 2010 release. I see it in a few 2008 screens but it's seriously lacking in order to make data entry faster, confirming matching transactions after import, etc.

Securities morningstar valuation info, asset class, and risk rating: one of the things that MS Money tried to do but wasn't completely successful was storing this information. Having this information per security per account is incredibly useful for when trying to do asset allocation. I've always wanted to know for each security in each account the following information:

Valuation Size (Large, Medium, Small) - morningstar data is fine from yahoo finance

Investment Valuation (Value, Blend, Growth) - morningstar data is fine from yahoo finance

Asset Class (Bond, Equity, ETF, Mutual Fund) - again, maybe manually updated when adding the security?

Region (Domestic, Global, International, Asia, Europe, South America, etc) - not easy to get but maybe can be updated manually?

Risk rating (can get this right out of yahoo finance off of the morningstar data)

If this information along with # of shares, current price, current value, can be downloaded in excel or csv by security, by account, you can do some pretty awesome asset allocation reporting.

  1. 1 Posted by Angie Rauscher on 26 Oct, 2009 02:56 PM

    Angie Rauscher's Avatar

    Dear Ming,

    Thank you for your suggestions for improvements to Moneydance.

    Our wiki is integrated with our feature request and bug reporting system. Please feel free to use these systems to help improve Moneydance by bringing bugs to our attention and requesting new features. We now also have voting on all existing tickets, which helps us determine which requests have the most demand.

    Please let me know if I can be of further assistance, and thank you for your interest in Moneydance.

    Angie Rauscher
    Moneydance Support

  2. Angie Rauscher closed this discussion on 26 Oct, 2009 02:56 PM.

Comments are currently closed for this discussion. You can start a new one.

Keyboard shortcuts

Generic

? Show this help
ESC Blurs the current field

Comment Form

r Focus the comment reply box
^ + ↩ Submit the comment

You can use Command ⌘ instead of Control ^ on Mac