Toshl Finance Blog

Updated Toshl for BlackBerry is here

New day, new update. We have updated the Toshl expense tracker for the BlackBerry platform. Since the previous release was our first on the BlackBerry platform we have focused most on fixing the small bugs with expenses, budgets and syncing all those nuggets to toshl.com and other devices.

It’s not yet on the BlackBerry App World so you can get it right here on the Toshl for BlackBerry site.

It’s full of goodies and features like the other Toshl mobile apps, so you can use all the comforts of expenses, tags, budgets, export options etc.

We’re planning on finally publishing this version on the BlackBerry App World so we really appreciate your feedback and reports on any bugs that perhaps remain. If you encounter any problems please post them to our support site.

BlackBerry Toshl Export

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Toshl is in Top 10 business apps in Ovi Stores! (updated)

We’re proud to announce that Toshl is now number one among the business applications for Symbian^3 in the the Ovi Store. We’re super excited about this and would like to thank you, people using Toshl, for your support and valuable feedback.

Update: Turns out we are not No. 1 in Ovi Stores everywhere. Ovi localizes the store based on the IP and we are only in the No. 1. spot in some of them. We are still in Top 10 in most of them though. I’m sorry for the mixup.

If you have a Nokia Symbian^3 phone and still haven’t installed it, wait no more, grab Toshl at the Ovi Store right now! It’s the leading business app on Ovi you know. ;)

It’s nice to introduce yourself, but… Sign in fix is here.
You might have noticed that the initial release of Toshl 1.6 for Symbian had an annoying bug for existing users, demanding that they sign in each time they opened the app. We’re sorry about that and we have submitted the fix right away. Luckily the update has now come through the Ovi Quality Assurance process. So with 1.6.1 the pesky sign in bug shall bother you no more!

Full speed ahead Scottie!
We’re also working on another update which will bring back the bigger and friendlier action buttons, make the interface faster, more responsive and address some minor bugs as well. We’ll be submitting it soon so stay tuned in the next few days.

We have also properly updated our Toshl for Nokia Symbian^3 features site, so you can tell your friends all about it and (hopefully) make them drool over the screenshots.

Nokia E7 with Toshl saving the Queen of EnglandIt sure seems that the Queen of England could use some help these days. Our best wishes to Londoners and hoping for a quick end to the riots from the Toshl team.

Posted in Announcements, News coverage

New Toshl 1.6 for Symbian^3 preview

There’s a new Toshl for Symbian^3 right around the corner. It’s got plenty of goodies like budgets, foreign currency support for traveling, recurring expenses etc. Try it and you’ll love it.

We have already submitted it to Ovi for quality assurance and we hope it will be online soon. In the meanwhile, you can try it out yourself if you’re the experimentative spirit. The app is finished, but because it’s not verified by Ovi yet, it’s not signed. If you’ve got a way to do that yourself, give it a go.

Update: We have updated Toshl to version 1.6.1 which fixes the issue that required users to sign in each time. Download it below.

Download Toshl 1.6.1 for Symbian^3 pre-release unsigned

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What’s new?

Budgets
It’s easy to get carried away on spending, so it’s good to have a buddy tapping you on the shoulder when you’re going overboard. Toshl can do just that, set up a monthly budget for spending and get reminded to stay in budget. If you go Pro, you can even set up budgets for specific tags and weekly and daily timespans, so all that alcohol spending doesn’t go unnoticed. :)

Foreign currencies
When you go traveling it’s not easy to keep track of all your spending in another currency. Toshl makes it easy. While adding an expense, simply choose another currency to enter the expense. Toshl will already know the correct exchange rate for the day, but you can change it to your own if you wish. You can then add expenses in the local currency. Toshl will remember the expense and calculate it to your main currency as well. When you come home, all your expenses will be noted, gathered & converted to your home currency without the hassle.

Recurring expenses
We all have those pesky monthly bills to think of; rent, gym, electricity, internet. Some of them just keep coming up week after, week, month after month. Now you can add them to Toshl right from you phone and they will automatically get added each week, month or year so you can put your mind at ease in advance.

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How to make expense reports for specific tags you’re spending on

You probably already know that you can export your expenses in Toshl. Users with free Toshl accounts can export to CSV (comma separated values) and Toshl Pro users get a lot more flexibility with export to CSV, Excel spreadsheets, Google Docs and PDF expenses reports. But did you know you can also export your expenses for a specific month or tag?

Expenses by month

  1. 1. Log in on toshl.com
  2. 2. Click export in the top bar
  3. 3. Select whether you want to export all your expenses or a specific month

    The month you can select in the export drop down depends on which month you currently have open in your expenses view. Just navigate to a different month and you can export expenses for that month in the export drop down.

  4. 4. Click on the desired format of export
  5. 5. You’re done. Much rejoicing!

Toshl Finance monthly expense report

Expenses by tag

  1. 1. Log in on toshl.com
  2. 2. Go to the Tags tab, click on the tag you want to export
  3. 3. Click export in the top bar
  4. 4. Select export expenses for the tag you chose before and click the desired export format
  5. 5. You’re done. Much rejoicing!

Toshl Finance specific tag report

Export expenses on your phone
You want to quickly export your expenses data while on the go? No problem, you can export them on your phone as well. The only difference is you don’t have the fine grained options for tags and months on your phone. You can only export the data for all tags and all time.
Go to the export section in the More tab (on iPhone) or export in the menu (pretty much all other platforms). Enter the e-mail you want to send the report to and the file formats you want to attach. Send, and you’re done.

Toshl Finance iPhone report

You own your data
We firmly believe that the data you gather and enter is your own. While the Toshl Pro users get a few more options in exporting, we will always support a way to get your data out for free so you can use it whichever way you want.

Posted in Tips & Tricks, Tutorials

Updated Toshl Finance for iPhone is out and about

Hey diligent finance trackers, there’s a new version of Toshl for iPhone out on iTunes. Don’t get too excited though, it’s a bug fix update, with a few needed fixes here and there but without new features. No need to be disappointed though, we have a few things up our sleeves for later this summer.

Toshl has also been renamed to Toshl Finance in the App Store, to show our aim to become a more complete, ¡but still ultra-easy and fun!, finance management solution.

One of the little things we’ve changed and really restores my inner peace is the Edit button for expenses, so it doesn’t look outside of iOS norms, where that icon is normally used for creating new entries, not editing.

Toshl Finance Before and After

So get the update for maximum stability and up-to-datedness (yes, I’m making it a noun) and please rate Toshl on the iTunes App Store. Much obliged.

P.S.: Android users, We know it’s taking ages to get that proper Toshl for Android update with budgets, but we’re getting there!

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