AotW: XS Finance

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

AotW: XS Finance

This week's app is XS Finance from xcite Software.

It's great to see applications like this coming out for Smartphone... I think as the platform matures we will see more of these 'power apps' coming over from the Pocket PC platform (and even the desktop)!

So, of course, we have asked xcite Software to talk about their application!

Hi and thanks for speaking to MoDaCo! Please introduce yourself!

Hi, we are xcite Software and specialise in financial applications for your Smartphone, Pocket PC and Symbian devices.

Describe XS Finance in your own words

XS Finance is a complete personal finance solution. A comprehensive multilingual, multi-currency and designed to remove the necessity for an equivalent desktop product. XS Finance has amazing functionality allowing comprehensive graphs and reports to be created, all in the palm of your hand.

What makes XS Finance worth buying above other Smartphone applications?

XS Finance is totally unique on the Smartphone and offers numerous features that other applications lack such as:

- Support for multiple personal files

- Foreign currency support; updated via the Internet

- Password protection on personal files

- View all transactions for an account

- Overview of all accounts on a single screen

- Categories for organizing your transactions

- Quickfill data entry

- Multiple languages (English,Spanish,French, Italian and German)

- Built in calendar

- QIF import. QIF&CSV export

- Scheduled Transactions

- Charts

- Memorized transactions

- HTML Reports

- Transaction split support

- Budgets

- Multiple account reports

What can we expect to see next from Xcite Software?

xcite Software also produces XS Portfolio, a leading Stock Portfolio manager package with full accounting facilities and amazing graphs. Check out the rave reviews on our website.

Plus in the next few months we will be releasing Symbian (Series 60) versions of all our products.

If you would like to check out XS Finance, visit the xcite Software home page.

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[Guest Alex_le_brit]

Paul, just a quick comment, when you post apps of the week would it be possible to put which OS it works on, with WinMob 5.0 out soon-ish we'll have 4 potential OS's out there, so it'd be good to know whether any app shown will work on the various OS's

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Will do that when 5 is out!

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[Guest nickcornaglia]

Does this app sync with MSMoney/Quicken by itself? Or is it a manual effort? Lack of this functionality for anyone who uses either PC app to electronically pay bills makes the mobile application not a FULL replacement for the desktop app. I NEED THAT SYNCHRONIZATION! (I havn't licked a stamp or written out a check in a very long time...isn't that the way we are supposed to be progressing?) ;)

I currently use SBH Finance on the PPC and it works great to keep my finances current. Lack of Smartphone apps with this kind of synchronization is one of the reasons that made me move back over to a PPCPE device.

Now if you're not using an online bill payer service...this app looks very nice and feature rich.

[Guest rvd420]

it works awesome, but i searched my ass off but couldnt find a serial for the 2.2 version. can anyone help me with this ?

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Sure...go out and buy it, thief!!!

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Official warning issued.

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