![]() ![]() Have all your accounts, budgets and bills in one place! With powerful reports, worldwide online banking and instant sync between all your devices! That’s MoneyWiz - the world’s most powerful and beautiful finance software. Master your iPhone in one minute a day: Sign up here to get our FREE Tip of the Day delivered right to your inbox.Simplify your financial life with MoneyWiz. It was nice to hear a success story for an independent developer that is growing, organically, through hard work and attention to detail. He uses Skype, email, ZenDesk and GitHub to stay in touch with his team, which is based in multiple countries. This helps him to explore different markets. Iliya is in a traveling mode, traveling every two weeks for the past year. Most significantly, the next version will support automatic data import from your bank account instead of the current, manual import method. After that, SilverWiz will be working on a major upgrade, with more types of accounts such as investment and retirement accounts. Families could create conflicting data so SilverWiz created their own mechanism. If you use iCloud or Dropbox it presents multiple challenges. SilverWiz is working on the next version of their sync service, known as Sync Everything. More challenges might come from understanding Android user behavior, not just the technology.” “It took about three months to develop, and the app is now in testing mode. “Not as difficult as originally thought,” Iliya replied. I asked Yordanov what the challenges are to cross platform development. Its website says Windows and Android are coming this year. MoneyWiz currently is only compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Since then we have been featured 9 times on the App Store. They spotted us once we became really popular and started to appear on a number of websites, about 7 or 8 months ago. I asked how can a developer get Apple’s attention? Iliya replied “you can’t contact Apple… they have to spot you. Its focus worked, and eventually caught the eye of Apple. For example, decimal places don’t apply in Japan, and some places have three digits of decimal places. MoneyWiz supports more than twenty languages, and personal finance requires more than language support. ![]() ![]() market, so he focused on international markets where it was easier to break out. This made it tough to compete in the U.S. Plus, the company was bootstrapped and didn't have a huge marketing budget. Three years ago, nobody paid attention to MoneyWiz, said Yordanov. It will be a web-based trial with a limit to the number of transactions. It won’t have ads or in-app purchases to complicate the experience. Apple doesn’t allow trials, so SilverWiz is working on a solution coming out within a couple of weeks. He said the company is working on providing a trial version. I asked if it had considered a free version, perhaps an ad supported one with in-app purchases. SilverWiz has achieved this great success without a free version of MoneyWiz. The support team is available 12 hours/day, 7 days a week including holidays, leading to 98 percent customer satisfaction versus the 80 percent industry average. Yordanov also is proud of SilverWiz' top-notch customer support, which solves problems, ultimately converting users into fans and driving great reviews. While it had indeed tried a handful, including one for the iPhone, Yordanov designed the Mac and iPad versions himself! I asked Yordanov if the company hired a user interface. Looking at the MoneyWiz interface, you notice how clean and consistent it is. ![]() Indeed, when I compared the app to its competitors, I noticed a distinct difference. SilverWiz prides itself on delivering a unique user experience.ĭeveloped independently of competitors, it can focus on innovative ways to deliver features. For a small development shop, that’s a huge commitment. In addition to putting a great deal of effort into development, Yordanov said the company also focuses on quality assurance with two staffers dedicated just for testing, eight hours a day. ![]()
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