tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:/discussions/suggestions/629-a-little-more-response-from-the-developersInfinite Kind: Discussion 2015-03-31T16:08:31Ztag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/52964152011-02-12T14:21:22Z2011-02-12T14:21:22ZA little more response from the developers?<div><p>Hi Dave,<br>
Have you looked into setting up a paycheck 'Reminder'? You
<em>will</em> need to enter the repeating deductions (splits), but
only once. You can set it to repeat every two weeks and you can set
it to 'Auto-commit' if you wish.<br>
The Balance Predictor Extension can provide some forcasting. Also
take a look at the Forcaster. <a href=
"http://code.google.com/p/moneydance-forecaster/">http://code.google.com/p/moneydance-forecaster/</a><br>
HTH -Kevin N.</p></div>-Kevin N.tag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/52964152011-02-12T18:20:47Z2011-02-12T18:20:47ZA little more response from the developers?<div><p>Dave,</p>
<p>Thanks for your input, it's important to us to hear these things
from our users, even when it's not pleasant. I'll try to address
your post point by point</p>
<p>1) I can't recreate the "broken help link" issue. Could you
please let me know what browser you're using?</p>
<p>2) The Balance predictor and Forecaster extensions are fantastic
at looking forward to account balances.</p>
<p>3) Entering a paycheck doesn't require a workaround per se, but
it does involve entering a split transaction. To do so, open the
split and enter the gross income as "Deposit", and things like
taxes, 401k contributions, etc as "Payments". This will get the
appropriate amount into your account, as well as accurately
tracking your other expenses. Kevin's correct that using a reminder
greatly streamlines this process.</p>
<p>4) It's possible to enter math expressions in any numerical data
field in Moneydance and Moneydance will automatically calculate the
result. This should remove your need for a separate calculator.</p>
<p>5) The dev team is hard at work on our next preview build, and
we are a small company. As a Moneydance user myself I do recognize
the frustrations caused by bugs, and I look forward to the next
build as much as you do. It's also possible you may not be using
the most up-to-date build- have you installed the Moneydance
Updater extension? The most recent build is Moneydance 2010r3
(751), available <a href=
"http://moneydance.com/other">here</a>.</p>
<p>6) We closed the old tracking system because it was very
difficult for users to access, and required a separate log-in to
vote. We do feel that this integrated system is simpler for our
users and more effective for our developers and support
staff.<br></p>
<p>7) You could certainly set up your car as an asset account and
modify the value. To do so I would create an expense account called
"Depreciation", and reduce the value of your asset as a "Decrease"
to the value of that account. And for some assets it does make
sense to track them as investments, especially if you want to track
ROI upon resale, or if the value of the asset is likely to increase
and decrease (such as with a house, stamps, or precious metals). We
don't currently support and integrated depreciation feature because
from what we hear from our users it's not a high-demand feature.
Calculating depreciation can be a very complex task (MACRS vs ACRS,
length of term, mid year vs mid month, and more), and it's not a
trivial feature to implement. That said, if the demand is there
we'll consider it.</p>
<p>8) Our devs and support staff do all work for a living, and I
use the reminder split strategy I outlined in <a href=
"/discussions/suggestions/3" title="Discussion #3">#3</a> above to
enter my paycheck. And most of us are based out of central
Virginia- I only wish we were lounging in Hawaii!</p>
<p>I hope the info I've provided is helpful, and we do appreciate
hearing from our users. It's not always fun to hear criticism, but
it does help us to create a better experience for our users. Do let
me know if you have any questions about the info I've provided
above,</p>
<p>Angie Rauscher<br>
Moneydance Support</p></div>Angie Rauschertag:infinitekind.tenderapp.com,2009-01-14:Comment/52964152011-03-12T11:33:26Z2011-03-12T11:33:26ZA little more response from the developers?<div><p>@Kevin: I have and use a paycheck "reminder" but it is clunky at
best. My paycheck is divided into 4 separate sections, as outlined
above, and each section is subtotalled. The MD reminder doesn't
have those subtotals, so finding a 1 cent error on the bottom line
is a pain!</p>
<p>@ Angie: my browser is currently Firefox 3.6.15 (upgraded a few
times since I first reported this and the same error is still
there.). I have javascript turned off, through the noscript plugin
- I'm not paranoid, I just don't trust anyone that wants to
download scripts onto my computer!</p>
<p>Entering a paycheck, see my comments above. If my paycheck is
broken out into 4 distinct sections, then why isn't my financial
software able to do the same?</p>
<p>I'm well aware of the inline math capabilities of MD. The
problem comes with the paycheck situation above: I download a
transaction from my bank for a pay credit of, say $1000.00 to my
account. I open the splits to update them for this paycheck, and
each change I make changes the bottom line. If I happen to hit the
wrong key part way through, it writes the revised bottom line back
into the register, replacing the bank downloaded figure with the
error! Now I have to open up my bank account online to find the
real amount that was deposited! and try to figure out where I
fat-fingered it. Using the calculator, I can do this without
changing the bottom line. Also, that "split" group is too
inflexible - I have to add a deduction to it but with the splits I
can only add this to the bottom - I want to put it in the place
where it normally appears on the paycheck so can just run through
them in order, not jump around! (Going to open this as a new
ticket)</p>
<p>I'm already using the updater, so hopefully my installation is
already at the latest and greatest. Sorry to hear you can't get to
Hawaii - never been there myself either! ;)</p>
<p>Trying to be constructive about the criticism here - I'm still
using MD, which says it works, I'd just like to see it work better!
:))</p></div>dave