Comments on: Feedback

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:57 +0000

Thanks Matt, we’ll look into that!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:25 +0000

It would be a lot easier to use if you could set multiple items during the same “session”. For example, if I am trying to budget for 14 days in City X – it would be nice to just type in City X for [the days I'll be there] and then fill out the amount for every expense: accommodation, food, transportation, etc. and then save it.

Instead of currently having to type in the city, enter the budget for food, select the days, save it….Open a new instance, enter the budget for hotels, select the days, save it… Open a new instance, enter the budget for [whatever], select the days again, save it again… etc.

You even list average expenses for every category on the side bar when the city is selected, the user should be able to check off which ones they want to add, adjust the amounts, select the dates, and it should be added to the budget all at once.

Mass deletes would be really helpful too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:38:27 +0000

Thanks for using our site Catherine! We’re currently working on a number of fixes and upgrades, and bulk delete/edit is on the list of stuff to get done soon. Sorry for the inconvenience!

By: Catharine

Catharine — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:14:20 +0000

Firstly want to say thank you as this is a fantastic concept. I have been struggling to budget for our year RTW trip so it is great to have all the city averages to hand.
As we are travelling for a year there is a lot of info to input and a lot of days to repeat. Is there a way to do bulk deletes or bulk amends if you make an error, ie you have entered 30 days accommodation for a location but want to amend the price or delete all the accommodation entries and re-enter them.
Thanks again

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:29:55 +0000

We’re often working on speed and performance. What country are you in, and what browser are you using?

Thanks!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:29:05 +0000

Hi Shannon, and thanks for your input. I’ll try to answer your questions one at a time:
- As for insurance, we’re trying to avoid having too many categories, so you could put it under health care or living expenses. But perhaps this does warrant a new category, so we’ll discuss it here and come up with something.
- Also with regards to your insurance question, we do not offer the ability to spread a cost out over time. This is too complex and confusing for most people, so for now you can just pick a date. Perhaps the first day of the trip?
- With transportation, it doesn’t matter if you choose the origin or destination. But either way, you should probably be consistent and always do it the same way. On our trips, we often do it for the destination. Perhaps the best way to approach our system is to think in terms of a large spreadsheet. Every cost has a location, date, and category. Then we can total everything up, calculate averages, split stuff up by date or category, etc.
- For currencies, every country has one currency in our system. We know that some countries unofficially have multiple currencies, but for these you’re going to have to do the math in your head, sorry. Currencies are instantly converted when you enter the cost according to a fairly recent exchange rate. It’s often very recent, but sometimes it might be a few days old due to system caching and latency. Most of the time, any delay won’t matter because most currencies don’t fluctuate that rapidly. If you find a country that you think is using the wrong currency, please let us know as soon as possible.

Thanks for your feedback, and let us know if you have any more questions or suggestions!

By: Shannon M

Shannon M — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:36:21 +0000

one other suggestion I noticed your site goes fast and slow quite regularly I don’t think its my end because it happens often and only with this site.

By: Shannon M

Shannon M — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:35:29 +0000

I read all the comments and replies so I knew what not to repeatedly ask for ;)

Ok that being said I am going to repeat something anyway :P

I’d like to see the ability to track insurance costs (as another person suggested) but usually this item covers the whole trip not per day so I don’t know how you would calculate this per trip day or what because some people extend their insurance if their trip takes longer.

I also noticed there is an option to track itnercity, local and international transportation (I mentioned this on twitter) what isn’t clear is whether I should put in the destination or the departure? (someone suggested that you should make it possible to put in the previous city you were just in and your destination and most trips take 1 day unless you’re sailing, driving or on a long distance train, etc so I don’t know that you would do a daily average unless you’re buying food enroute.

I can’t seem to figure out where/how I would track/input transportation costs for the start of my trip, so again as I mentioned before would I put in the origin or the destination?

Oh yeah, here’s another suggestion I realize that the cost tracking is supposed to be either in your default currency or the local currency (which makes sense) and then there are some countries who use other currencies unofficially and then SOME countries have more than one official currency (or so I thought?); so anyway perhaps allow me to input the cost of a particular item in the currency I purchased it in otherwise I will have to convert it (well guess I will have to anyway) how does this site determine conversion rates?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:35:59 +0000

Thanks Freddy, we’ll add those things to the list. Mass edit/delete is already something that we’ve identified as putting into the next update, so hang in there a little longer and we’ll get it going soon for you.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:58:06 +0000

Another thing to would be nice if we could delete a Budget Plan or a start over button. Also a mass edit/delete on items would be a great feature to have instead of having to start over, or delete one by one.