Over the past few weeks, many of our users have asked us if our product works on the iPad and/or iPhone.  While support for iPhone is on the way, I'm happy to say that inDinero works quite well on the iPad.  In fact, I find myself using inDinero equally as much on my iPad as I do from my laptop. When the iPad was released back in April, we made some intentional design changes to accommodate future iPad users.  We decided to drop Adobe Flash from the application completely, in favor of html5/canvas.   For example, if you're a frequent user of our Trends functionality, you'll notice that we have a lot of interactive graphs, and that none of them are in flash.  But up until the iPad was released, we had been using homegrown Adobe Flash charts.  In any case, they're all gone now.

I'm confident that over the 18 months or so, other financial apps on the internet will migrate away from Adobe Flash, if only to appeal to passionate iPad users.  The only problem is that so many popular finance sites (Google Finance, Yahoo Stocks, Mint.com) have interactive graphs that are powered by homegrown Flash code -- and if you've invested years into developing on that platform, it's hard to just throw it away.  At inDinero, we were originally reluctant to throw away months worth of engineering time, but we found it pretty easy to migrate everything over to existing javascript libraries that worked equally as well.

Props to our friends at Freshbooks for having an iPad compatible product too.  Keep on the lookout for the inDinero+Freshbooks integration :) 

Many of you probably saw that we launched inDinero.com last week - we've since signed up thousands of new users, and we've clarified our vision for what to build over the next few weeks. I just wanted to share a sneak peak of what we're up to:

1) Freshbooks Integration. We've received dozens of requests to integrate with Freshbooks, so we decided to give it a go. You'll be able to import and track all of your invoices from inDinero, and we'll use that data to even forecast your future cashflow. Any ideas or suggestions for how we should build it? Please send me an email to let me know!

2) Forecasting. Businesses have to plan their future somehow, and lots of big questions frequently come up: how much cash will we have if we spend money on hiring someone? Or... what does our income look like if we get X new customers in Y month? And not only that, but inDinero will automatically predict the future of your finances based on the past. This great technology will also be available in the coming few weeks.

3, 4, 5...) Iterating on the existing product, and giving you a better user experience. We want to make inDinero as easy-to-use as possible, so please continue to send your requests our way. Over the past few days, we've received literally hundreds of emails asking us to add various features, and we read every single one of them. Big thanks from team inDinero for the great launch. Big shoutout and thank you to our friends at TechCrunch, Venturebeat, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, WebWorkerDaily, and the other great blogs that helped us celebrate our first official day in the wild. 

We've finally released the Summer 2010 version of inDinero - with a stunning new financial dashboard, better trends for your business, collaboration with fellow team members, and more.  We released our alpha version of inDinero on July 4th 2009, and a year later, we're  proud to be where we are at now.  The product just works.  You told us that the financial-account adding process wasn't easy, so we made it easy.  You told us that you wanted trends that broke down your income, spending, and even cashflow.  So we built that too.  And since almost the day we released our alpha version, a lot of people have been asking for customized spending/income categories.  As of today, that's now available to our users too. In short, we've done a lot.  Lets take a closer look at each of these updates.

1) Streamlined Dashboard.  A crystal-clear way to see how your business is doing.  Compare this to your ordinary banking homepage, where all you know is your bank account balance. 

2) Intuitive Trends - a lot of business owners (including myself) would have no clue how much money is actually spent month to month.  Since starting inDinero, I'd be clueless of how much we spend on a month-to-month basis unless I looked at our own charts.  In this new release, we also let you see your cash balance over time.

3) Easier than ever to add your financial accounts.  As of today, we support thousands of bank/credit card institutions, not to mention credit unions and PayPal.  We think there's no better way to manage your finances than just have it managed for you.  And our hundreds of beta-users would agree. :)

4, 5, 6, etc... ) Custom Categories, filtering transactions by amount/date/category, and improved alerts.  inDinero is simply more intelligent now.  It monitors your money as soon as its in the system (we run automatic updates on it every 24 hours), and we send alerts or notifications when we see excessive spending or that a big deposit cleared in your account.  One of our biggest compliments came from a user who said that the emails make it so that she doesn't have to scan through her bank account anymore - inDinero brings all this crucial information to her by email, and aggregates all of it in a single place. Updated Pricing Plans:  We know that a lot of our users were just starting up new businesses, and the burden of having to pay up-front was too much.  So we've introduced a free plan that allows any new business with up to 50 transactions the ability to use all inDinero features, free.   Established businesses with more than 50 transactions can use inDinero for only $29.95/month.  So if you're a new entrepreneur who's just getting started, don't hesitate to try the free account.  Check out our plans here.

What's next for inDinero: In the coming few weeks, we're going to flesh out these new features some more and begin to forecast your finances.  Based on your past financial data, and public industry data, we'll help you plan and predict where your business is headed.  If you're interested in being an early user of this, send me an email:  jessicamah [at] indinero.com, and we'll add you to the alpha list. And of course, we're continuously improving the product based on what you tell us.  So don't hesitate to email me personally.  Stay tuned! 

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