Feature Request / Usability adjustments
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Hi, I am currently trying to implement plugin and the addons to use it as our house budgeting tool, so we have a rough idea how much money we spend on repairs and other regular expenses.
Whilst trying to work with your plugin I noticed some things that I think would improve usability a bit, so I hope you don’t mind providing some feedback.
Categories: changing colours
I don’t know how many people use a colour picker or choose their colours by RGB/HSL. I am old-fashioned, I prefer hexcode, particularly as many websites offer colour/shade pickers and copy-pasting one hex-code is easier than three separate numbers.
1) If I would like to change the colour, I have to click at the bottom to change from RGB/HSL to hex first. Every single time. — is there a way to make your plugin remember what I used last?
2) Also, maybe it would be easier to just show all three options RGB/HSL/Hex instead of having to click through them, each time.
3) When I copy a hex code from a different tool or program, CTRL+V just leaves empty space. I also can’t right-click into the field and use the context-menu to paste. I literally have to remember the hexcode or put the two tools next to each other to copy the code manually.Graph & pie chart: display colours
Staying with the colour topic: As I mentioned on the Envato forums already, I prefer the old fashioned colours for incoming (black) and outgoing (red) money. However, I understand not everyone sees it the same way. So maybe this is more a feature request, to let people choose their own colours.Currency:
On one hand I find the feature of the current currency rates quite handy, on the other hand also quite confusing. You are fetching the “current” currency rate (I am assuming based on $, the currency icon is missing). But with a different base currency this obviously makes no sense. You then ask for the rate between the “current base” currency. Which kind of makes sense.
But then I don’t understand why you fetch the current rate of the currency, but are not able to update the difference between the base currency. Wouldn’t it make sense if the fetch feature only fetches the rate between the current base currency? Rather than fetching a standard rate and ask the user to add the difference manually (which then obviously is not updated). This feature – in my opinion – contradicts itself. Or maybe I don’t understand it.Cash/Dept/Bank Accounts
I don’t know how you designed and/or this tool. It probably comes closest to what I need as a “budgeting” and “planning” tool that most things I have seen so far. But in my scenario I don’t need to have any accounts setup, I just want to track expenses and potential future expendiatures. So it would be great (from my perspective) if I could just not setup any sort of monetary account from which the expenses are being deducted.
At the moment my work-around is, that I setup a cash account with zero money in it.
Another aspect of this… wordpress and its plugins are prone to security attacks. I think the last thing I (personally) would like to do is giving too much detail where money is going into and how much has been accumulated in that account, or anything about any debt accounts someone might have.Visual Feedback
Maybe put a little background shade behind the menu in the top where it says “accounts | categories | parties | currencies | import | $” to make it a bit more visually pleasing and highlight it as a menu. Same on the left with “Summary | Cash flow | Trasnactions”.Right, that’s it for now, I am sure there is more to come. These are just some ideas that I thought – from my point of view for what I would like to use this tool – would be helpful. Situations and usage obviously differ, for someone else that might be utter rubbish. ??
Thanks.
Philippe
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