Category: Announcements
Easier Upgrades to Toshl Pro with AliPay, Qiwi Wallet, UnionPay, PaySafeCard…
Toshl Pro is an upgrade to the free Toshl which enables many nifty features like adding receipt photos to your expenses and incomes, multiple financial accounts, use of more than 2 budgets and some upcoming top secret features which Toshl monsters are still hiding jealously in their labs.
While Toshl Pro has been around for a while, enables us to pay the bills and keep developing the Toshl services, we’ve recently made some updates to how you can get it.
Until now, you could upgrade using in-app purchases on Android, iOS and Windows Phone and on our website with major international credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners, Discover, JCB…) and PayPal.
With our latest update in Toshl Pro upgrades, we’ve added some payment options which make upgrading a lot easier in countries where credit cards list above aren’t exactly in everyone’s pocket.
You can now also upgrade to Toshl Pro with:AliPay – our most popular payment method in China
International bank transfer (IBAN) – for all the old school banking fans. To be honest, this one might be a bit pricey, depending on how much your bank charges for such transfers.
Maestro cards – debit cards most used in European countries. MasterCard’s debit brother.
Paysafecard – one of the greatest advantages of Paysafecard is that you can simply buy these cards loaded with credit in local stores all around the world with cash.
Qiwi Wallet – very popular payment method in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan…
SafetyPay – in Latin America and elsewhere
SEPA Direct Debit – payment that can draw from bank accounts in the European Union.
UnionPay – Chinese credit card standard
If you don’t see one of these payment methods on the list when upgrading to Pro, make sure you have your country selected in the Settings, as some payment methods are only available in certain countries.
If you have any questions regrading upgrading to Toshl Pro, please don’t hesitate to contact us at Toshl support, we’ll be happy to help.
Update 2.0.3 for iOS – Set Your Own Default Screen
Today we released a new update for the iOS app, version 2.0.3 which brings quite a lot of fixes and a larger change as well.
Here’s the quick list of changes:
– Expenses list is the screen that opens when the app is launched
– New setting for selecting the default screen
– Icons for 3D Touch quick actions
– Added “left per day” info to budget details
– Fixed “my financial month” time span display when using a custom financial month starting day
– Bug fixes & stability improvements
The largest change is certainly the first screen that opens when you first open the app. The app now starts with the expense list so you can quickly see what were the previous expenses you’ve entered so you don’t forget about adding any in between. The monthly overview is still available in the top of the menu. For new users of the app, the starting steps will become a bit more optional, part of the exploration of the app to do when extra time is available.
We realise though that the first screen is also a personal preference, depending on what your personal financial goals are. Some prefer to see the ledger of all the entries right away, then again, others would like to see the full monthly picture of their finances that the Monthly overview or River flow graphs provide. Then again, some might want to focus even more on saving and display the budgets immediately.
Whichever your reasons, you can now freely select among the screens to start the app with in the Settings.
The app should update automatically in most cases, if not you can download it from the App Store.
The Toshl 2.0 Android and Windows Phone apps are in the making and are scheduled for release in the first half of the year.
Toshl Finance 2.0 is here
Today we launched Toshl 2.0 for iOS and the web app. It’s a major upgrade, in fact a rethink and rebuild of what we have been offering so far.
There are so many new features and improvements that it would be hard to list them all here. Most of them come from the feedback you, the users of Toshl have been giving us throughout this time, coupled with our vision of how we can help people improve their personal finances.
Among the features we’ve added are multiple financial accounts, adding of photos, locations, reminders, paid markers to expenses and incomes. We’re proud of our new data visualisations on Monthly overview, River flow, Budgets, Locations to name just a few. Budgets can now adjust automatically to your monthly incomes, the time periods for budgets can be completely customised and they play much nicer with other graphs.
We’ve introduced a much better structured system for categories, tags and accounts. We now suggest most of the categories and tags you’d ever need so you don’t have think up your own system if you don’t want to. But all of these are still fully customisable if that’s what rocks your boat.
Filtering by account, category, tags and locations is available across the web app and by accounts across the iOS app. Months and time spans in general are much simpler to navigate and offer more options than before.
Such major changes take some getting used to. We realise some of you will be unhappy with the changes, but we kindly ask you to give this new version a chance. Explore a bit, see what’s new and how some of the new things work.
In the following days we will be publishing a lot of tutorials to help with this task and explain all the functionality. Your feedback and questions will be crucial to help us improve the functionality as well as the discovery of it going forward.
We haven’t forgotten about our dear Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 (Android port) users. Sadly it was impossible to launch all the apps at once. We are continuing to build these apps and they will soon be making the transition to 2.0 functions and design as well. It’s difficult to say exactly when they will be available, but we plan to release them in the first half of 2016.
Such large changes can be troublesome and difficult to coordinate. Some transitional problems thus remain at the moment. Sync with the v1 apps does not yet travel in both directions, reset, delete account functions are unavailable and payment methods for Toshl Pro need to be greatly expanded. In some cases the migration of tags and budgets from v1 can be somewhat problematic as well. We will resolve these issues in the upcoming days.
If you encounter any problems or have questions about the new apps, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@toshl.com and we will do our utmost to help.
We are thrilled to have the new apps finally released. This is a new solid foundation we can build on and bring on improvements at much greater speed and quality than before. We can’t wait to see how the things we’ve built can help improve your lives and make personal finances a bit less scary and dare we say, fun?
Quick update on the 2.0
We’ve been making constant improvements to the web app Beta as well as the general back end of the Toshl ecosystem and the mobile apps. Thank you to everyone that’s helping us with Beta testing. With your help we’ve discovered and fixed a bunch of bugs, as well as made some usability improvements.
The web app is now also translated into: English, Slovenian, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and German. The latter two are not 100 % yet, but will be soon. Chinese, both simplified and traditional are on the way. If you speak any of these languages, please switch to it in the Settings and please let us know if you encounter a strange translation.
The iOS app is progressing well and is in internal testing, but we want to make sure we’ve covered everything before adding more test users.
We still need to do a bit more on the Toshl Pro payments side, fix some minor quirks, get all the tutorials ready, translations into the mobile apps… All in all it’s going well and the final release is not far off.
We’ve made the Beta web app more accessible. If you sign up now, you should get the invitation automatically in a few minutes.
Keep in mind that the Beta is meant for tablet and desktop screen sizes and above, mobile phones will be served by the native apps. Sync is also just one way with the beta at the moment. V1 -> Beta. That means that what you add in the current mobile apps will show up on the Beta, but not vice-versa.
Android and Windows Phone apps are also in the making, coming a bit later this year. Thank you for your patience.