Bankn Release Notes

Release 3.0 (2024 Jan)

  • Enhancements
    • Named reports are now supported, allowing for creating and selecting custom reports
    • Reports now include chart data, either pie or bar. Pie charts are shown if grouping by category, bar charts are shown if using dates.
    • Date grouping in report and bar charts are monthly if data is 60 days or more, weekly for smaller day amounts
    • Reports have additional date options, ability to ignore non-categorized entries (empty)

Release 2.9 (2023 Dec)

  • Enhancements
    • Basic reporting now available (via button lower left) that allows for reporting across accounts, categories and date ranges
  • Fixes
    • Fixed case where checkboxes overlap in list of scheduled entries for sets of accounts

Release 2.8 (2023 Nov)

  • Enhancements
    • Account summary now shows balance as of end of today (doesn’t include any future entries already entered)
    • Improved scheduled entry chart related to entries that occur today (don’t use timezone for dates, start at beginning of day)
    • Usability change, if you change date on an existing entry don’t re-sort (so stays at same position unless view refreshes)
    • (Internal) use system logging
    • Minimum Mac OS version is now 13.5
  • Fixes
    • Internal issues after upgrade to latest XCode version (15), primarily around default value changes for views
    • If scheduled entry is created without a category, attempting to use that entry would crash (now it doesn’t)
    • Bar, StackedBar charts drop shadow moved to correct location for negative values

Release 2.6 (2022 Oct)

  • Enhancements
    • Made category filter on accounts page ‘sticky’, that is it remembers the categories filtered even when re-opened (via encoded/decoded json of an object).
    • (Internal) Updated logging to add a logError that takes an error object.
    • Updated the application properties code in container to use logError instead of debug.

Release 2.5 (2022 Sept)

  • Enhancements
    • Added overall Account view, showing spending by categories in Bank and Credit Card accounts
    • Added search ability in investment accounts, search for record by text, category and amount
    • Added support for importing QFX files in import of transactions
    • Improved Import of Transactions, determines matching records (records already imported) vs new records and allow user to alter set of match and new
  • Fixes
    • Fixed crash issue when deleting investment entries
    • Fixed issue that prevented export of account entries in a QIF file (export of account now works)
  • Release 2.4 (2022 Aug)
  •       Enhancements
    • Added search ability in accounts to search for a record by text, category and amount.
    • Improved account summary view, providing information if account balance crosses zero in the next 45 days, charts comparing last three months, same month last year and last month, and any upcoming entries.
    • Improved readability of charts with changes to colors and text overlay.

Release 2.3 (2021 Oct)

  • Enhancements
    • Added summary view on listed account type. Now if you select the account type a summary view is provided to show balances, upcoming transactions and projected balances, as well as the ability to select a subset of the accounts.
    • Added tooltips when hovering over account entry fields, includes noting if entry was updated in the last 24 hours.
    • If viewing account scheduled entries and you add a new scheduled entry, it now automatically refreshes to include the entry.
  • Fixes
    • Fixed crash bug when viewing projected balances based off a twice yearly scheduled entry

Release 2.2 (2021 Oct)

  • Enhancements
    • Improved refresh. When viewing an account and its entries as well as the schedule, changes in scheduled entries and any entry changes are reflected in the chart immediately.
    • Improved chart color to use system colors
    • Allow product window to be made smaller than default size
  • Fixes
    • Fixed bug that threw an error when deleting an entry linked to an entry in another account

Release 2.1 (2021 Feb)

  • Enhancements
    • Now includes integrated help, with links to online help and these release notes

Release 2.0 (2021 Feb)

  • Enhancements
    • Now supports Credit Card accounts (via add, import was already supported)
    • When creating entries, use the last date entered as next date
    • When creating entries, warn if date is far in the past or future
    • Added default categories
    • Added sub category to categories, to more easily identify income and expenses
    • Added tax categories to categories, to aid in grouping and sorting
    • Breakdown values are now grouped by tax and sub category values
    • Added ability to update categories
    • When showing scheduled entries that impact a credit card, properly stop entries when balance reaches zero
    • Added stronger link concept between entries that impact multiple accounts (for example if paying credit card from checking account), allows content to properly update when changed
  • Fixes
    • Fixed display issue when editing a Schedule Entry that uses averages
    • Fixed refresh of Breakdown information for an entry when changing or updating values
    • Fixed crash when sorting newly entered Scheduled Entry
    • Fixed a redraw issue when adding multiple scheduled entries
    • When choosing discard for a partially entered entry clear content

Release 1.5 (2020 Oct)

  • Enhancements
    • When showing amounts on bar chart, include date
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issue where next date on scheduled entry that shifted from end of month to next month causes skip forward (skipping the next entry)
    • Fixed issue attempting to sort entries in a case where no sort description was provided
    • Fixed issue attempting to set category name for entries in a case where none existed

Release 1.4 (2020 Aug)

  • Enhancements
    • Updated entry based on scheduled entry, no longer recorded as ‘today’ but instead recorded as the date that is scheduled
    • Added ability to breakdown a new entry before saving
    • Adding scheduled entry ‘frequency’ now allows type ahead regardless of case
    • Added ability to skip scheduled entry even if not older than today
    • Added sort for breakdown entries (via click on category/memo/amount)
  • Fixes
    • When adding a new transaction to the same day (scheduled entry or otherwise) the updated balance calculated didn’t start with where the entry was inserted
    • Fix issue where weekly scheduled entry was off by one day
    • Fix refresh issue where adding scheduled entry while viewing account scheduled entries doesn’t show until you move and come back (now it refreshes immediately)
    • Fix error when deleting a scheduled entry (crash)
    • Fixed issue where editing a scheduled entry that has no breakdown and editing breakdown and choosing cancel, amount goes to zero
    • Creating scheduled entry from discovered entry should include correct breakdown categories from discovered entry
    • Creating scheduled entry should use currency rounded to 2 places
    • Account scheduled chart: Future account entries should not be the starting balance but included on those days on scheduled entry chart

Release 1.3 (2020 July)

  • Enhancements
    • Turned clipboard and edit menu on, allowing for copy and paste
    • When viewing accounts scheduled entries, default sort is by next date
    • Improved usability when there is a partially entered entry in an account
    • Ability to export single account as QIF file
    • Ability to import single QIF account and merge
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issue where scheduled entry is connected to an account, and doesn’t record transfer between accounts
    • Improved refresh when restoring from backup
    • Deleting linked entry (category is another account) should delete the corresponding entry
    • Refresh when after entering a scheduled amount, date and balance

Release 1.2 (2020 July)

  • Enhancements
    • Improved creation of categories
    • Accounts now have ability to record description in summary
    • Improved layout in breakdown view.
    • Account names are now sorted
    • Improved flow when using New, Backup and Restore
    • Improved Account view of projected balances
      • Date range on x-axis
      • Hover over changes shows the details
    • Ability to see additional projected balance ranges
      • 3 Months, 6 Months, Year
  • Fixes
    • Fixed issue when starting with ‘New’ and you have existing data (error removing old data no longer occurs)
    • Fixed issue where sort was still indicated on Scheduled Entries list, but is no longer sorted
    • Fixed issue calculating next date on Scheduled Entry and taking business days into account
    • Resolved issue where breakdown entries would show difference “-$0”

Release 1.1 (2020 July)

  • Enhancements
    • Improved category lookup by not taking case into account (so groceries is the same as Groceries)
    • Improved account lookup when adding scheduled entry by not taking case into account
    • Users can now sort scheduled entries by description, frequency, next date, account, category, amount
    • Any scheduled entry whose next entry is in the past will be highlighted with a yellow background color
    • Scheduled Entries in the past now have the ability to skip / skip older
      • Skip moves scheduled entry to next date
      • Skip older moves next entry to next date after or equal to now
    • Entries can be created from Scheduled Entry
      • When done, the Entry is created and the Scheduled Entry moves its next entry date forward
    • Scheduled Entries can now be edited
  • Fixes
    • Changing amount in breakdown and clicking save doesn’t include the amount being modified
    • Account Entries new entry would show a random category value
    • When scheduling entries, don’t allow or require ‘Business Days’ when choosing Weekly/Daily scheduled entries
    • Account Scheduled view was not showing all combined scheduled entries
    • When scrolling in Scheduled Entries text color was not refreshing correctly (would be blue instead of black)
    • When entering an Account Entry and then viewing the Account Scheduled Entries, chart values were not updated

Release 1.0 (2020 July)

  • Features
    • Import QIF files (migrate off of other Commercial Products)
    • Backup and Restore
    • Create, read and update accounts
      • Activate, deactivate accounts
    • Create, read, update and delete account entries
      • Create duplicate entries
    • Create, read, update and delete breakdown values for entries
      • Create duplicate breakdown entries
    • Create, read, hide and un-hide categories
    • Enter scheduled debits and credits
    • Discover scheduled debits and credits
    • Create schedule for debit and credit
      • Range of frequencies (from Yearly to Daily)
      • Amount can be fixed (with breakdown values) or an average of entries
    • See projected account balances
      • 31 Days
      • With max/0/min on y-axis
      • With value at top/bottom of bar
    • Account summary
    • Create entries that track transfers between accounts
    • Mark entries as cleared
    • Filter clear/non-clear entries