Thanks to your continued feedback we continue to add features you like. The latest currency to be added: Hong Kong Dollar (HKD).

As always, keep the feedback coming – we may be able to make it happen quickly.

The new date format has elicited a lot of reaction, summed up succinctly by Andrew Portez: “Did I mention that I hate it?”

You did, as did quite a few others.

The source of the displeasure was the fact the longer date string caused the expense to take two lines where before it only took one.

We’ve reduced the length of the date string by getting rid of the day-of-week: “Tues 1 Jan 2009″ is now “1 Jan 2009″. We should be back to a single line for a single expense.

Please make sure you reload the page by holding down the shift key and hitting reload the next time you visit the Expenses page. 

By the way, early testing group, thank you so much for catching this before we launched the last release…

We’ve just added support for Argentine Pesos (ARS) and Romanian New Leu (RON) to currency conversion, please give it a try and let us know if you run into any trouble.

Our first release of 2009, nicknamed “The Continental”, is here, bringing with it some long awaited love for our international users as well as a couple of other nice features for everyone.

Non-USD Base Currency. Surprised to find this was the top user requested feature, we consulted a map and confirmed that indeed there are a few countries outside of the United States, and most of them have their own currencies and languages. Who knew.

Xpenser now allows you to set non-US base currencies via the Keywords page. Go to the Currency Conversion panel, select your currency from the drop-down list, and enjoy automated conversion no matter where you spend your money.

Internationalized Dates. Turns out many countries also order dates differently. In the spirit international unity we decided to accommodate this strange habit as well. 

After some debate, experimentation, and user testing we settled on using an internationally understandable date instead of forcing you to declare your date preference upfront. The expense page now uses the format “Tues 20 Jan 2009″, which hopefully should be clear to everyone. You can set your date format preference for export of expenses via the Account Settings page:

New and improved Reports Page. As many of you had noticed the Reports page would start to get unwieldy and inefficient once you had more than a few reports. This one took a fair bit of experimentation as well, but we’re hoping the new layout, arranged by report status, will go a long way towards making it smoother and more efficient. Gone are the colorful icons and the fat boxes, replaced with text and a skinnier, more space efficient layout. We hope you like; otherwise let us know at feedback@xpenser.com .

AND for Tag search, Tags in export. Tags have been a big hit and you’ve been making great use of them. Almost as soon as we released them you requested the ability to search for expenses with all of the specified tags instead of any of the tags. Now you can: from the Expense page click the search button, and look for the “Tagged with Any of / All of” drop down at the top of the tag column:

You also wanted your tags included in your exports. They now are – select Export to CSV and you’ll see the extra tags column.

There are also various other improvements and fixes here and there, including improvements to the date detection algorithm in Import, allowing a wider range of date formats to work.

P.S. We’ve also added kilometres to mileage tracking – now you can use km, kilometers, or kilometres in your expense submissions – eg:

driving 87 km to meeting

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As always, please leave a comment here or email us at feedback@xpenser.com with your feedback, requests, rants, etc.