YES!!! I love you guys!!!
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Feature Requests
- Export transaction data based on Tag and/or Category (This one is most important to me)
- Hide custom categories & tags from analytics
- Ability to count an item as business expense / budget for business expenses (Just as important to me as the other)
- Exclude transaction from analytics without changing itās category!
- Search (button on top left) on Feed page (for quick access)
- Login via Email & Password (other than third party service or phone number)
- When searching, display money total of resulted items.
- iPad & Mac app (or online portal)
- Emma Discord Server
- Edit (hide/show) cards displayed on Feed page
And last but not leastā¦ More descriptive changelogs on the App Store! What exactly was fixed!? What exactly was improved!? The last 22 updates over a 3 month period have only said āBug fixes & performance improvements.ā That tells me literally nothing. For all I know youāve been moving a button back in fourth between updates over the last 3 months.
I appreciate when Iām told exactly whatās been improved, fixed, added, or enhanced because it lets me know the app is actively being worked on and that the devs arenāt just doing one minor little thing, just so they can say development is at a steady pace. I donāt need hyper descriptive details about refactored functions and variable names, but if a button was just slightly adjusted to the left, or thereās been a minor improvement in launch time, tell us! Donāt just say āBug fixes & performance improvements.ā Too many apps do this, and itās annoying. Worst of all, itās LAZY! If youāre like this about simple changelogs, who knows where else thereās slacking. Iām not saying you ARE lazy, Iām just saying this can come off that way.
Best of all, thereās no added production costs, R&D, or development in doing this! So I hope to see better changelogs moving forward! 
I hope that these will be throughly considered and implemented into next updates. I really have problems finding an app that helps me balance personal finance with business finance. Thatās the number one problem Iām facing that no app has been able to solve. Closest candidate was Mint, and thatās just sad.
I know that designing an app that can do this well and with polish be tricky to execute, but if you guys can pull this off and implement the above listed features, you will definitely see a hardcore loyal customer for many years to come! Not to mention, youāll have made a solution for thousands of self-employed people that weāve been craving for years!
I understand this post might sound a little harsh in some areas, haha! But rest assured, I just want whatās best for the app! From what Iāve seen in the forums thus far, it does seem like you guys genuinely care, and that speaks volumes. Communication and transparency is vitally important to me. And the app is incredibly polished and well thought out, and thatās why Iāve spent most of my day going back through here and refining this post as Iāve been using the app.
So, if anybody at Emma could let me know if any of the things Iāve mentioned above are being worked on, are heavily under consideration, or are added to some ānext to addā list, please let me know. Any response would be much appreciated! Best of luck to the team!
TLDR
- I have feature request that I believe are vitally important for myself and many other users who are self employed and have business expenses, and I want them added asap please! :3
- Be more descriptive with your changelogs.
- Good job on making a pretty and polished app!
- Please respond, lol
I think the change logs make a lot of sense for indie apps that get updated twice a year. In the case of Emma, we release twice a week and sometimes it can be a quick A/B test on the onboarding flow to see if we can convert way more users. Thatās why it becomes a bit irrelevant to write that description. 
For example, in our last update we introduced a different funnel for people that come from Facebook Ads.
These are very important things, but not core to the user experience.
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What about noon UK Bank integration?
Will be great and complete for me tonhave it all
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Maybe change the description to āBackend updatesā, rather then āBug fixesā
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The ability to search, select and mass edit would be great. Imo, the advanced search is a pretty weak part of the app.
Iād love to use it more, but I have to cycle through the icons to remember what they all mean, and then I canāt do anything with the results anyway.
Something more prosaic, akin to the transactions filter dozens has would be nice
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For these things.
- This is something we wanted to add to Search. It would work really well.
- What does this mean?
- We have a business category.
- This is a nice addition.
- Weāll see what we can do here.
- We have decided not to add Email/Passwords for security reasons. Itās much safer this way and we donāt have to deal with it.
- A must ad.
- A web app would be great.
- How would you use the server?
- This is a bit tough for us, we are always changing the feed.
For example, I like to track my credit card repayments as a category, so I can see them all in one place each month. But it messes up the analytics. Iād like to see them as a category, but exclude them from my monthly analytics. So youād see Spending, Income and Excluded on the analytics screen
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I think being able to classify any category or even account as Business, then putting it on a separate analytics page, separate accounts tab, separated from net worth - basically in its own dedicated part of the app - would be the sort of powerful business budgeting tool a few people are looking for. Maybe even an entirely separate Emma Business subscription
This, as well as daily totals when you view an account
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- Letās say I create a custom category called āSecret Thingsā, and I donāt want it to be shown in analytics, but I still want it to be in that category for organization and not put in āexcludedā. There could be a toggle for categories (when you edit or add them) that allow you to hide them from analytics.
Basically: Hide every transaction within a category by hiding the category itself.
- Sorry, I should have elaborated more. My mother works as a tax professional, and she had informed me that they do require specific categorization other than just ābusinessā. Like āoffice & suppliesā, āadvertisingā, etc.
Thereās a category for business, sure, but Iām still having to create my own categories. Electronics & Software is a common category I use in both personal and business. But since I can only add one category, Iām not sure which is which! I can use tags, sure, but now itās mixed in with my personal analytics.
This is the issue Iām running into. Not to mention, when you want to exclude from analytics, it completely changes its category!! I didnāt know this until later. I thought it would keep its category, just hide it. My hopes are that this will change soon.
Perhaps a better solution is a checkbox under each transaction at the very bottom (so it doesnāt get in the way of users who donāt often have business expenses). āThis is a business expenseā or āMark as businessā or just āBusiness expenseā.
And once again, please make hidden transactions not rely on a category change to function! 
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But Iām not dismissing Mac/iPad either. More specifically Mac.
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Yes, but āInvite a friend, get $15ā is not something I do everyday (or every week for that matter), and it takes up screen space that could otherwise show me content that I actually use everyday, quicker. I also have no interest in ācashbackā section either.
This ^^^
As I said, we donāt need hyper specifics. Just general specifics. But not too general that every changelog over the last 3 months are literally copy and paste. It rubs off the wrong way.
To @jase , if you can communicate whatās been added or fixed via email and community forums, it shouldnāt be too difficult to translate that over to the changelog. Iām just not seeing where being slightly more descriptive instead of just copying and pasting, is such a big issue. 
Heyyy @Gaoler
I donāt have dozens so havenāt seen this screen before, but Iām intrigued by the āhow it made you feelā sectionā¦!
Is that something that you can attribute to each transaction you make? Do you use that feature much?
Yes, you can rate each transaction in terms of how it makes you feel. Itās broken at the moment in fact, while theyāre upgrading, but I used to use it all the time.
You get points for their Savers Awards each time you rate a transaction (as well as various other things, like setting up a weekly saving). I won Ā£100 one month 
The rating system just made me think about my spending a bit more. āAm I happy about this?ā is quite a useful measure of whether a transaction is necessary
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I think this one is quite a nice idea! 
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Yeah I love that as a way to evaluate how youāre spending your money!
If I looked at that every month and Iād bought a few things that didnāt make me happy, it would definitely make me reconsider buying it again!
Amazing! 
And on their location filter, how much detail does that go into? i.e city, towns, exact names of places etc?
The location is actually an address search. So you can start typing any part of an address and it will show you matching addresses from your transaction data. Itās a nice feature
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In terms of budgeting, Iād like to see more control over when I can set budgets rather than just 1st of the month or payday - I use a credit card for cashback and pay it off in full every month, so my budget period is linked to the bill cycleā¦meaning I still have to manually manage this as itās on a different dateā¦in fact I have 2 cards I use with 2 slightly different billing dates so being able to set budget dates by account would stop me still having to work out my budgets manually 
Firstly there should be dark mode, and also scheduled background refreshes. It is a pain to have to open the app for a quick check to have to manually refresh all accounts.
Also, it would be good to calculate the total of pending transactions and display this number so you are aware of how the total balance will shift. Itās really easy to get caught out with pending transactions, and I think Emma should make it as easy as possible to check whatās been spent but still due to come out.
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Would this open up Europe accounts to Emma?