We had an unusually intense spike in server usage late last night / early this morning. This was causing some of you to get an error message telling you to contact us. The issue that was causing the spike has been resolved and everything is back to normal.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I'd like to take a minute and give a status update in regards to the ClearCheckbook iPhone app. The developer we hired has been working extremely hard to get the app working to the specs we requested.

Pretty much all of the features are up and working in the app now. We're just getting the finishing touches put on it now (making the app look visually a nicer and fixing some formatting and bugs). We hope to have the app ready to submit to the App Store in 2 more weeks at the latest.

Here are some screenshots of the app as it stands right now:


Login Page


Account Overviews


Transactions Page


Spending Limits


Reminders Page


Reports Page

We have posted 4 new video tutorials to our Tutorials section. These new tutorials include setting up your accounts and categories, creating budgets, setting up a reminder and importing transactions.

The videos have been uploaded to YouTube in HD quality and can be viewed well there. Our tutorials page (which links to all the tutorials) can be found here: www.clearcheckbook.com/help/tutorial.

If there are any specific tutorials you would like to see added, let us know in the comments!

We just upgraded the Budgets/Spending Limits tool by adding a "Rollover" option. This option, if enabled, will let your spending limits rollover each month. This means that any unused money will be added to the limit for the following month.

Here's an example: You have a limit set on Entertainment for $100 a month. Lets say you only spend $50 this month. When the limit resets, your new limit will be $150 for the next month.

The opposite is also true though. If you spend more than your limit, your limit for the next month will be smaller by the amount you over spent.

You'll be able to tell which limits are set to rollover by an icon next to the limit amount.

We just rolled out an upgrade that will allow you to get help topics specific to the page you're viewing by clicking on a new Help tab at the top right side of the page. This new tab will appear on any page where there is specific help topics for that page.

This new help tab will cover frequently asked questions as well as provide some walkthroughs that cover some of the tasks for the page you're viewing. This will make it much easier to find helpful information and answer those quick questions you might have without digging through the entire help section.

We will keep the help topics up to date by updating them if we find users are still having trouble with certain aspects of the site. If there's a question/answer you think we should add to any of the help topics, please let us know!