In yet another milestone for ClearCheckbook, we're proud to announce that we're now managing over 2,000,000 transactions for over 17,800 active users.

Over the last month, the site has seen an average of around 9,000 new transactions and 125 new user registrations each day.

In other news, we also met our donation goal for the month of March with a few days to spare. This is great news! A huge thanks to everyone who took the time to donate this month.

As always, please send in any feature requests or ways to make the site better!

First off, I would like to say that I'm truly amazed at how many people donate to the site each month. Your donations are greatly appreciated and are helping make this site even better.

As you may know, running a site has several costs associated with it (servers, hosting, etc) and these costs start to add up quickly. In fact, this year alone we're spending around $3,600 to keep the site up and running.

In an effort to try and make the site self sustaining, we have put a small image at the bottom of every page that shows the percentage of our donation goal for the current month.

Please remember though, even if we don't receive any donations, the site will continue to be funded out of my own checkbook. While I have no problem with this, it is nice to be able to have some of that cost taken care of by the site itself.

Thanks again for everyone who has donated to the site!

If you're using Internet Explorer 6, we would like to strongly encourage you to either upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or more preferably, download and start using Mozilla Firefox.

It seems like more and more of the emails coming into us about login issues or data not getting updated (because it's getting cached by IE when it shouldn't) all revolve around the fact that Internet Explorer 6 is an extremely outdated browser and should not be used.

If you're forced to use IE6 and cannot upgrade for some ungodly reason, please try the following instructions if you're having the following issues:

Trouble Logging In
-Click this link to ensure cookies are cleared: https://www.clearcheckbook.com/logout.php
-Refresh the page about 10 times in a row really quick (sounds strange, but it helps clear things out from memory)
-Clear your cache (instructions here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.mspx)
-Close your browser and start it again
-Try logging in

Pages not updating when you add transactions... or accounts are showing up empty:
-Refresh the page about 10 times in a row really quick (sounds strange, but it helps clear things out from memory)
-Clear your cache (instructions here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.mspx)

If you are still having issues and have tried the above instructions, please send us an email and let us know. Please strongly consider upgrading to a new browser if you're able to.

I just ran some calculations and the website is tracking approximately $4,200,426,390.10 in transactions right now. The last time we checked (about 6 months ago) we were somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000,000.

The site has averaged over 8,000 new transactions made each day for the past week. That's a little over 5 new transactions each minute!

It's crazy to think that we're now getting as many transactions added each hour as we used to get in an entire week about a year ago. Keep spreading the word of the site to your friends and family so we can continue to grow and make the site better!

This little known feature has been around since about August and was developed specifically for a personal finance course at Purdue University. The Projects feature allows a group of people to manage their ClearCheckbook accounts as usual, but then adds a new kind of report to their navigation.

This new report allows you to view your spending in a set of specified categories with the rest of the group. This is a great way to see how your spending compares to those of your peers. You also don't have to worry about other group members seeing what you've spent your money on. All they can see are group averages compared to their own spending.

If you are interested in setting up a Project with ClearCheckbook, please use the Contact form at the bottom of any page and let us know. This feature is completely free to use and all we need to know is what you would like your project code to be (all users will enter this code when they register) and what categories you would like the project to track.

Since the Project feature is still relatively new and tailored mainly for the needs of one personal finance course, we'd be glad to hear what your opinions are on how we could expand the Projects section to make it even better.

If you're interested in learning more about the Project feature or if you want to give some suggetsions on additions to make to it, please let us know!