Many of you have contacted support recently regarding NeoBudget’s support for Internet Explorer 9.  I’m pleased to announce that NeoBudget now works seamlessly with IE9.  If you are using that browser (or any browser, for that matter) and ever notice something that doesn’t work as expected, please contact support so I can help resolve the issue.  Thanks!

When dealing with financial data online, it’s important that you have the highest level of trust in the website and company with which you’re sharing your information.  In an effort to increase transparency and let you know that NeoBudget takes security and privacy seriously, we have pursued and attained accreditation by the Better Business Bureau.

The BBB called and interviewed me for this process and they verified company records to ensure that NeoBudget, and its parent company Tebros Systems LLC, are in fact trustworthy.  They have given us an A- rating.  The only thing they marked off was for the age of the company.  NeoBudget has been around for almost two years now, which is a long time for the Internet.  The BBB however, reserves their highest marks only for companies that have been around for a very long time.  We’ll get there eventually!

Be sure to check out the BBB reliability report for NeoBudget.

In the meantime, you can now rest assured that NeoBudget has been verified by an independent and highly trustworthy third party.  And we will continue doing what we have always done — providing the best budgeting solution out there while ensuring security and privacy of your information.

One of the exciting things for me about starting my own company is that I have the chance to start on the right foot. Several years ago I read a collection of essays called Getting Real (by 37signals). The more I read the more I realized I had found a book that embodied my goals in software development. I started dreaming of creating a company built around many of these ideals.

NeoBudget is a service created by my company, Tebros Systems, LLC. Much of the foundation for Tebros Systems is formed by the “Getting Real” philosophy. The core essence of this philosophy is that it’s better to build a simple and small product that is rock solid, than to build a huge product that is everything to everyone and yet it’s unstable and buggy. It’s quality over quantity.

As I’ve created NeoBudget, I have always striven to keep this standard. There are many things that NeoBudget could do, but I would rather spend my time improving existing core features and making them even more rock solid. Quality over quantity.

Don’t get me wrong, I have plans to add many new features to NeoBudget. It’s not that these new features won’t come eventually. The point is that I will be focusing on the core features first. Once those cannot be improved any further, then I’ll move on to adding more new features. The benefit of this approach is less frustration to the end user of NeoBudget (e.g. you). You should never have to worry whether the system is going to work or not, and you should always have the utmost confidence that your budget data is safe and secure.

I often get a question about whether a particular bank is supported in NeoBudget. The truth is, your bank is most likely supported.

NeoBudget doesn’t support specific banks, but rather has built in support for common file formats that most banks support. NeoBudget can import both QIF and OFX.

So, is your bank supported? Check and see if it can export your transactions as a QIF or OFX file. If so, then it will work fine with NeoBudget. If not, send us an email and we’ll see what we can do. We might be able to add support for new file formats.