It has been a little while since we gave an update to the progress of ClearCheckbook version 3. Over the past few months we've been working very hard to get everything updated and added to the new version of the site. As of now, we only have two more features to rebuild for the new site (Reminders and Reports) plus a few more smaller additions and general cleanup.
We are looking to launch our private beta testing of the site in about 2 weeks and will use that time to fix any bugs and finalize the layout and other things like that.
We're sorry for the slight delay in launching the new version, but we want to make sure everything is there and working smoothly before the launch.
In a couple weeks I will post more information about the beta testing and how to sign up for it if you're interested.
General ClearCheckbook News:
July has been another great month for ClearCheckbook. We had over 310,000 transactions added this month with around 2,100 new members sign up for the site. We also broke the 3,000,000 transaction mark in July!
Donations:
We were about $60 short of our donation goal, but it's still great to see so many people donating.
V3 Development Update:
Many more hours have been poured into the development of V3. A lot of the new ideas are starting to take shape on the site, but we still have a few more to start on. These next few weeks will be very busy for the development of V3.
We also announced in July that we are developing a native iPhone app and plan on launching that along side V3.
There will be some more news about V3 as the launch date gets closer. The estimated launch is still September with beta testing opening up at the end of August.
I wanted to give everyone a little more information about what ClearCheckbook version 3 (V3) means.
V3 is the culmination of over 2 years of comments and suggestions from both users and non-users. We took a lot of those suggestions and applied them to the current version of the site. There were still a lot of updates we simply didn't have time to make or were too large to handle for the V2 launch.
The V3 launch, at current count, will see more than 40 new features and improvements made to the site. Many of these improvements are things that have been suggested to us, but others are some very unique new features that we have thought of on our own. One of these features in particular will make you question how you've managed your money without this new tool.
While we're not going to make public a full list of all the new features and improvements until the site launches, I want to give you an idea of a few of the things we're working on.
- Running balances (the most requested upgrade we get) - Limits/Budgeting histories. - Report improvements (we'll leave it at that for now) - Much improved importing features.
We will probably get a little more specific in some of our new features and enhancements as the time for launch gets closer.
Development has been going very well lately and should continue to do so. We're almost at the point now where we're starting on some of the newer features that haven't been mentioned yet.
