Disclaimer: I usually only write about code, and certainly this is not a product review blog, but this is something that really made my day. And their web pages end in .aspx so technically it is .NET related.
Yesterday, I came a forum post alerting ASB customers to check out their new Track My Spending online banking feature:
The reason I’m so stoked about this feature is because I’ve been looking for a way of tracking where my day-to-day money is spent for a few months now.
I was considering moving banks to somewhere that supported OFX Direct Connect (so I can download my transaction logs automatically and sort them with a tool like GNUCash or Quicken), and I even started writing the foundations of a little WPF app to do it.
Now I can see pie charts and expense breakdowns just below the rest of my internet banking. What’s more is the transaction coding process is almost exactly the same as I had envisaged for my app — categorize one transaction, and it’ll automatically tag all similar transactions with the same label.
To be honest, I never would’ve expected something like this from ASB — the rest of their online banking interface is pretty clunky and looks exactly the same as it did 6-7 years since I first became a customer. So it was a nice suprise to find this little gem hidden in the junk section of the online banking menus.
I’m not sure if other banks maybe already have features like this (probably even better ones), but I was very impressed anyway. So congratulations ASB, you guys hit the nail on the head and made one very satisfied customer at least!