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Use Expensure to manage your Xmas Gift Lists

It's always a mission to keep track of all the stuff you need to pick up at this time of year. Save yourself some pain and let Expensure remember it all your Xmas shopping needs for you. 

Store all your gift ideas and Xmas dinner/holiday shopping requirements safe and securely in one single place. 

If you are sharing the shopping with multiple people you can let then view the list online too and everyone can tick things off as they pick things up (and let Expensure sort out who owes whom what!).

 

You can also use Expensure on your mobile to keep the list with you when you're out and about and tick things off as you go.

Happy Xmas and Happy Shopping!

Expensure gets a writeup in Yahoo News

We're currently over in San Francisco and Yahoo News gave Expensure a writeup as part of a piece they have done on PayPal opening up their API to the developer ecosystem. 

The Innovate 09 conference has been a really cool experience with a lot of interesting people getting together and talking about the next wave of business models and how they might/will be powered.

The conference has definitely given us a lot of ideas of how we can make Expensure even more relevant and useful to our users. 

Expensure releases new multi-person PayPal payment feature

We've just released a new multi-person payment feature that lets Expensure users payback many people at once using a single PayPal transaction. 

Expensure is one of the first ever online services to offer feature this innovative new PayPal payment system, and we're launching this at the PayPal Innovate 09 conference in San Francisco. 

We'll be updating the FAQ shortly for people who want to know more, but all you need to use this feature is a current Expensure login.

We've also added a bunch of highly requested features that we'll be rolling out shortly across the service.

Expensure reviewed by The Next Web

Expensure has just been reviewed by The Next Web, a cool (and highly influential) tech/startup news source. Getting press for bootstrapped startups is always hard, so when it happens it feels great!

If you'd like to write something about the service, its founders or what it is like to bootstrap a startup in London, get in touch. We'll also be over in San Francisco in a few days to help spread the Expensure word. Stay tuned for updates on that too. 

Note to Editors: Expensure is a free to use web-based Shared Expense Management service that people can use to track, manage and resolve the expenses they share with groups of people. 

Mike Evans, Ebony Charlton and Andrew McPhee created the service to solve a problem they had keeping tabs on shared bills and expenses that had when they flatted together. You can find out more about Expensure here.

Expensure invited by PayPal to demo at Innovate 09 Conference in San Francisco

We have been invited by PayPal to demo Expensure.com at the PayPal Innovate 09 Conference in San Francisco. The conference is the first of its kind for PayPal and will take place on Nov 3rd and 4th 2009. 

Billed as the Intersection of Ideas & Money, the conference will have an abundance of labs and workshops on offer, and we're proud to have been chosen to demo Expensure, which as you by now might have guessed will soon be offering the the ability for users to resolve payments via PayPal in an innovative and interesting manner. 

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As we'll be over in San Francisco during the week of the conference and are up for meeting with other startups, entrepreneurs and investors in the San Francisco area during that week (get in touch).

Calling all developers: how could you use an Expensure API?

We've been busy beavering away, working with a stealth-mode start-up in the travel sector who need to keep track of who owes whom what. A natural fit, we thought, for an Expensure API. This got us thinking: perhaps there are others out there who need a bit of debt resolution in their apps too? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch with us and let us know how you might use an Expensure API, and we'll let you know when the beta version is ready to go.

Expensure launches new 'Trends' section: Helping you answer the question of "where does your money go each month?"

There is an age old saying of "if you can't measure it, then you can't control it". This is certainly true when you look at household spending. You may think that you're spending more or less, but it can be hard to quanitify these things when you running a household day-to-day.

Our latest addition to Expensure couldn't have come at a better time. As everyone's attention has recently turned from making crazy money to saving money like crazy we have created a new 'Trends' section that shows you exactly where your money is going each month.

 

You can now assign each purchase to a category (there are a bunch of defaults or you can make your own). As you add new bills and expenses each week/month Expensure plots a couple of helpful graphs that will show you exactly which areas of your household spending are starting to cost you more and more.

And yes, we are aware that it took not one, but two Fridays to get this live, but we think you'll find it was worth the wait...

Expensure to release five new features during next 5 weeks!

As monthly outgoings for UK households "soar by 26%", and with a recent YouGov poll finding that 44% of people in the UK are reigning in their spending, people are crying out for smarter ways to manage their bills, their expenses and their lifestyles.

So after a busy month spent collating your feedback and brainstorming new features to make Expensure even more useful to people who want to simplify the way they manage and resolve shared money and expenses, we've now come up with Five key new features that we will be releasing to you over the next 5 weeks to help you stay in control.

Now as Albert Einstein so eloquently stated: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”, we've split these new features across several areas that will address multiple elements of the social money lifecycle.

Check back every Friday throughout this period to try out these new features and see for yourself how they can help give you even more conrtol over the social aspects of your finances.

Expensure mentioned on Mashable

Mashable just did a list of great expense, accounting and budgeting apps and we got a nice little screenshot in there.

http://mashable.com/2008/08/14/accounting-and-budgeting-tools/

It was cool to see who else is doing stuff as well. Looks like the expense/money category of apps is really starting to grow, which makes sense since spreadsheets suck, banks don't offer you anything to use at all; and we are shown daily how to mismanage our finances at every step by the million credit companies that are out to benefit from us not keeping track of things.

It is also always nice to login to the Expensure admin and see a giant spike in user sign ups. A great big thanks to Mashable for the mention, and for everyone who has been supporting the app!

The Circular Debt Resolution™ algorithm

One of the core features that makes Expensure super useful for people who flat or travel together is the Circular Debt Resolution™ algorithm.

The Circular Debt Resolution™ algorithm helps people who share expenses remove the pain of working out who owes who what by working it out for you.

At this very moment one of my ledgers involves 5 other people and we are all off to Sicily for a quick trip. Everyone on this Sicily Holiday ledger has paid for different shared expenses like flights, car rental, villa rental and pre-booking deposits, B&B rental and we haven't even left home yet!

Right now we would normally be knee deep in a swamp of confusion over who should repay who what amount of money, but no, we are off down to the the pub instead to enjoy a toast to our own ingenuity.

I must admit it feels pretty cool to be road-testing our products and to find that they not only work, but that they really do save us the time, pain and hassle that caused us to make them in the first place (yay!).