Tuesday, January 09, 2007

How to Save Money in the New Year with Xpense Tracker

Creating a budget and saving more money is always one of the top New Year resolutions that I think we all have - but how many of us can actually keep up with it? You could try to keep track of your monthly expenses in a spreadsheet or use a full blown accounting software program like Quicken but that's a sure way to not meet your goals.

To set yourself up for success, you should try an online budgeting program like Xpense Tracker. This is a simple to use web program that allows you to create a monthly budget and track your actual expenses against it. Once you enter your budgeted items like groceries, gas, etc. you can put in your actual expenses as you go along during the month. You could enter all of your receipts once a day or even once a week. The advantage of using an online program is that you can login anywhere and get a snapshot of how your budget is doing.

A simple registration form gets you going using Xpense Tracker and after a 30 day trial it's an additional $3/month to keep using. It allows you to view your expenses and plot graphs just like a full accounting program would.





I setup a basic expense tracking sheet and was able to quickly put together a monthly budget and start tracking my expenses. This program is easy to use and pretty much free so start saving for the new year!

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