Buxfer is another social money Y Combinator funded company that softly launched last September. It provides the same basic functionality of Billmonk, such as keeping a running total of debts and credits with your friends (only money), but has grown up a little and added some nice data visualization.
Buxfer is deeper than Billmonk, letting you track and tag out your expenses with friends and groups over time. The groups option makes it great for managing debts between roommates or within a club. Billmonk is more geared to managing splitting debts between friends and lending out your stuff. Buxfer goes further, letting you analyze you expenses over time through a Google finance-style pie chart with adjustable time frame. Buxfer has gone to great lengths to make importing transactions as easy as possible. They currently support adding transactions to your account via SMS and the ability to import your credit card statements (.csv,.qfx,.ofx). From there you can tag and divide up your expenses as you see fit.
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will // March 22, 2008 at 7:13 pm
the features at Buxfer are truly remarkable — very quick, very intuitive, very useful. (very web 2.0!) just about everything is right where you expect it!
you can create a hierarchy of tags, rearrange them at will, apply them automatically based on patterns ni your transactions…
Buxfer nabs your transactions right from your bank if you want, which is at least a little frightening… what do we really know about their security? that’s the ONLY caveat i can see.
for features and interface, Buxfer gets a 100% from me.
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