Comments on: Currency Converter

By: dave rosen

dave rosen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:33:30 +0000

Saasu can you please include rates prior to June 2009? Apart from that it’s great!

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:28:17 +0000

My main concern right now (having tinkered with both Xero and Saasu) is the availability of historical data – “Rate data in Xero is available back to 1 January 2007, so if you are setting up your organization or entering transactions on a date since then, an XE.com rate will be available.” but for Saasu I wasn’t able to get rates prior to around 27 June 2009 – there’s 2.5 years of historical currency data “missing” that would be incredibly useful for entering last year’s expenses in various currencies. That said, historical data is not free and between the $15/m option and GST, Xero will shortly be a whisker over double the price of Saasu GLOBAL ($70.40 vs $35.00).

OTOH Xero doesn’t (yet) support multi-currency in its expense claim feature which misses a key use case – employee travel expenses! Perhaps this can be achieved by entering expenses as purchases, and I’m not sure Saasu even has a streamlined expense entry feature (which would be awesome).

In any case it’s great to see you guys comparing notes and I hope you do examine each others’ products for inspiration more in future!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:45:50 +0000

Hi Philip,

Actually I was referring to Quicken/MYOB products. I haven’t used your product so not sure how it feels to use. Generally speaking though web app developers “over-mouse” their screen designs and “under-keyboard” them in my experience.

Thanks for your thoughts!
Marc

By: Philip Fierlinger

Philip Fierlinger — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:42:38 +0000

Hi Marc

I see you’re comparing the solution you’re working on to the multi-currency solution that’s available in Xero.

I think you’ve pinpointed one of the key differences between our two apps: we take the approach that information overload should be avoided, instead we give the option for instant access to deeper levels of detail as needed.

I’d love for customers to compare the two solutions (once yours is released) and get their feedback on these two different approaches.

Cheers.
Philip

Head of Design, Xero