[moneydance] moneydance-info Digest, Vol 60, Issue 11

[M Young]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:00 AM, moneydance-info-request at moneydance.com  
wrote:

>
> I've got an iPod touch running the 2.0 firmware and already have a
> developer certificate from Apple for writing iPhone/iPod apps.  I see
> three approaches to working with Moneydance on the iPhone:
>  1) xpenser + jott -> Moneydance extension.  This allows a simple way
> to record an expense via xpenser.com which can interact with jott.com,
> twitter.com, SMS, email and IM.  The nice part about this is that it
> works with the 98% of people who don't (yet) have iPhones.  See this
> thread for more info:  http://moneydance.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1208303387
>
>  2) sync with a third party iPhone app.  The beta palmsync extension
> to Moneydance used to work with the SplashMoney Palm app, but I was
> never completely happy with the result.  SplashMoney is now available
> as an iPhone app, but I think the synchronization works in a different
> way.
>
>  3) write a custom iPhone app.  Given what is on the iPhone App Store
> now I think I could come up with something pretty competitive.  The
> trick would be synchronizing it with Moneydance, which would have to
> be done over the local network or a secure "drop box" type of system
> on moneydance.com.
>
> I think that #3 is the most interesting option from a development
> point of view, but #1 is the most widely applicable and therefore more
> appealing from a business sense.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>

Hi Sean,

For what it's worth, I vote that you make the best business decision  
for your company so that Moneydance will continue to thrive.

Michael