The site is now running on a temporary server while we upgrade our main server. We hope to have everything moved back to the upgraded main server soon. I will keep everyone posted on that status.

We will be transitioning to the temporary server on Saturday July 25th at 11:00pm central time. The site should only be down for 30-60 minutes maximum while we transfer the database.

While on this temporary server, you may notice a little bit of a slow down for a few days while we get our real server set up again. The specs of the temporary server are a little weaker than what we currently have.

I will keep everyone posted of any updates.

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that we will be upgrading and moving our server soon. There are a few reasons for this update.

1. We will be upgrading the server itself by nearly doubling the RAM to 12 GB and putting dual 1.5 TB hard drives in it. This will help really speed things up on the site.

2. We are going to be rebuilding the software side of the server to speed things up and eliminate all those random crashes that were occurring.

3. We are physically moving the server from Las Vegas, NV to Los Angeles, CA to a new hosting facility that provides much more bandwidth than we currently have.

All three of those combined will help make the site much faster and reliable.

Some time over the next few days we will be moving the site to a temporary server where it will remain while we physically upgrade and move the server. We shouldn't be on this temporary server for more than a few days and it has enough power to handle our traffic in the mean time.

There is no expected downtime during this transition and I'll keep you posted on the progress.

I have had a few people email me asking why their balances are wrong and it seems like the site is calculating a transaction twice. What seems to be happening is people enter transactions with 2008 instead of 2009 and then don't see it at the top of the list and add it again, this time with the correct year... thus giving you two transactions and throwing off your balance.

This is mostly happening for transactions that are taking place at the first of the year. Some people are entering January 1, 2008 instead of January 1, 2009. The transaction then gets placed way back in the beginning of 2008 transactions and they don't see it... so they add it again, throwing things off.

So to sum it up, if something seems off, go back and double check that you didn't put the wrong year in when you were adding transactions.

If that doesn't seem to be the issue and you know everything else is correct, try clicking the "Refresh Balances" link that's located under the Account Overviews on the Dashboard and Summary pages.

ClearCheckbook is proud to announce the launch of Version 3 of the site. This version upgrade comes with many new features, an updated look, and the ability to become a Premium member.

To start, we'll tell you about the Premium Membership. A Premium Membership gives you access to some new and exciting features such as the ability to view all transactions that were edited and deleted and gives you the power to restore them. The Premium Membership also displays the running balance on the Account Summary page and gives you the ability to estimate Future Balances. The Premium membership costs $4 per month, but you can also purchase multiple months at a time at a lower cost. We do want to emphasize the fact that the site will always remain free for you to sign up and use. However, we believe that offering a Premium membership is a great way to help grow the site and keep the site competitive for both free and premium members. To learn more about the Premium Membership, check out the premium information page.

Some of the new features added to the site are the new Dashboard that replaces the Account Summary page. Here you can quickly add transactions, view reports, check out your spending limits, view upcoming reminders and recurring transactions and more. Rather have the old Account Summary back? That's fine too, it's as easy as clicking a link on the Summary page. You can now add transactions from any page without actually leaving the page. This will make it easy to quickly enter your transactions while browsing other parts of the site. The reports have also seen an extensive overhaul. The look of the reports have been greatly improved over the previous version of the site. You can also dynamically compare your spending categories against each other in a new report. We now give you the ability to mass delete transactions by clicking on a checkbox next to each transaction you want removed. If you're a premium member, you can also use this method to mass edit transactions.

If you're curious about how to use some of the new features of the site, check out the tour page. We have some videos that walk you through some of the key features of the site.

The iPhone and iPod touch webapp has also been upgraded and now has the complete set of features the normal site has. You can learn more about the mobile site by going to the mobile page.

There are still a few things we will be slowly launching over the next few weeks. One of the main new features will be the ability to view the site in different languages. We have several people helping to translate the site into various languages and when we receive those back, we will put them up.

We encourage you to check out the site and see all the new features first hand.

Thanks!

The ClearCheckbook Team