Windows Phone Thoughts: Managing Your Money: WebIS Money 1.0 Reviewed

Charts
With WebIS Money, you can generate all sorts of cool charts, including bar charts based on Net Worth, Account Balance, Income vs. Expense Trends, Income vs. Expense, and pie charts based on category, account, and payees. The charts look beautiful and present a lot of information quickly.


Figure 9: The Charts feature is very well designed.

Importing from Other Finance Applications
WebIS Money supports importing QIF files, which can be generated by Quicken, Microsoft Money, and many online bank sites. I was able to quickly and effortlessly import my Quicken accounts, transactions, and categories into WebIS Money. Having the ability to import categories from another application makes up for WebIS Money’s lack of default categories.

Missing Features
I’d like to see support for scheduled transactions and budgets in WebIS Money. I can’t do without these features. Also, a Today plugin that shows your account balances and upcoming scheduled transactions would be a plus. Finally, I’d like to see WebIS develop an Activesync conduit to sync WebIS Money with desktop finance applications.

Conclusions
Overall, WebIS Money 1.0 has lots of potential, and I’m sure we’ll see great things from this program in the near future. Although the user interface is pleasant, there are some glaring problems that I hope will get fixed in future versions of WebIS Money. All in all, if you can get this program for free, download it and try it out for yourself. Otherwise, I suggest holding off for version 2.0 and investing in a different Pocket PC Finance application.