MSE needs your help! New Online Budget Planner needs testing

Fifer · 5 January 2010 at 2:38PM

Works perfectly on old IE6 on XP.

Ambersuccubus · 5 January 2010 at 2:40PM

Quite like this. Straightforward categories (with the sensible option of being able to add your own, as people's lives rarely fit schema exactly), run through in sensible chunks. Easy to move from one section to another and to backtrack if necessary.

Total calculator is a bit "gimmicky", but fun, I guess!

IT note - seems to download correctly only SOME of the time on IE7 - which other browsers has it been tested on?

elf06 · 5 January 2010 at 2:41PM

Fab - worked all the way for me - and the added bonus i spend 10% less than i earn

halight · 5 January 2010 at 2:42PM

Worked here for me uesing IE8 on windows vista,
The opening page i think could be made to look a bit more friendly/pleaseing on the eye.
But idea behined it all is a great one.

lolly_896 · 5 January 2010 at 2:43PM

All Working fine for me on Chrome. Look forward to the finished product

SkintGypsy · 5 January 2010 at 2:51PM

I like it! Nicely done.

ManAtHome · 5 January 2010 at 2:53PM

I did get a "not logged in" message part-way through, but clicking on next (category) cleared it (on Firefox by the way).

Personal preference would be for annual events to have the default of 'yearly' (eg car tax, insurance, holidays).

Would be good to have savings 'spends' total split from actual spends (it's cash going out each month, but not really going out).

Overall - great idea and looks good.

Jessilu · 5 January 2010 at 2:54PM

*Impressed*:T

It worked fine for me using firefox!!

mswan · 5 January 2010 at 2:54PM

Looks good and easy to use

linni · 5 January 2010 at 2:55PM

Worked fine for me MS XP. I have a habit of clicking on the next box rather than using the tab button and it kept wanting to stay on 'monthly' rather than 'yearly' and I found it a bit fiddly, but of course I can just make sure I use the 'tab' button in future. The totals bit at the end zooming really quickly gave me a bit of a fright because it was going upwards and wasn't sure it was going to stop - but thankfully I was only spending about 75% of my income. Nice bright colours too.