"Handy Finance" for Palm v2.0
(C) Dmitry Briliuk, Handy Solution Software, 2002
E-Mail: support@handysolution.com
Internet: http://handysolution.com
ICQ: 37384704
Phone: +375 29 6842161 (my speaking English is not perfect)

Full commercial version costs $35, personal version costs $20,
upgrade from personal to full $16, see manual ot visit our site for details.
Lite version is freeware.


Features of the program
"Handy Finance" is intended for mobile personal and small business money management. It is an expense tracking software and allows the user and to answer the frequently asked questions like "How much money do I have?", "What incomes and expenses are planned", "What have I spent my money on?" and many others.
It has following features:
- personal expense tracking,
- automatic accounting for money movement between different accounts,
- many currencies and convenient tool for converting currencies,
- double (mirror) transactions,
- flexible and powerful tool for searching and analysis,
- four user-defined categories and many other useful fields,
- reports and planning,
- security settings,
- free lite version allows much more than most of simpler paid programs of this class,
- free PC desktop module with open source allows to see all data, make reports and save to Excel.

New features in version 2.0
- column settings editor, adding any fields to view, saving of column widths,
- reminder is released,
- reports by different criteria, including filtered reports,
- security settings (locking by password, beam and sync disabling),
- generation of transactions by condition: by any account/category, by date (down arrow in transaction editor),
- ability to track expenses in stable currency for countries with unstable home currency, viewing expense both in past and present states,
- transactions and accounts scrolling from editor,
- record dragging in any table,
- fixed bug with rounding of numbers, 85.09 will not become 85.0899,
- demo version now has all features of full version, but number of transactions you can enter is limited by 100,
- lite version allows to edit any fields.

New features in version 1.02
- free PC desktop module "Handy Finance Desktop",
- fractional part not disappears for big numbers,
- sorting for transactions and accounts,
- advanced currency features: home currency, relation type, custom editing,
- cross transactions for storing different amounts and currencies for each part of transaction,
- no nags in demo.

System requirements
- PalmOS 3.5 and higher,
- at least 4mb of memory (2mb for lite version).

Installation
Attention! By installing this program you completely accept terms of license agreement (see License.txt).
Install one of the files FinanceFull.prc (for full version), FinancePers.prc (for personal version), FinanceDemo.prc (for demo version) or FinanceLite.prc (for lite version) onto your device. Examples for using "Handy Finance" can be found in the "Example" directory of archive. To use this example, install all *.pdb files onto your device. You can also estimate performance of our program as it works with large amounts of data.  To do this, you will have to install the file FP_Transaction.pdb from the "Example/Big" directory after installing the basic example.  This file has over a thousand randomly generated transactions.

Free lite version
"Handy Finance Lite" is freeware and offers much more than most of simpler commercial programs for money management. Lite version has no any time limitations or nag screens. There are no limitations to the number of records you can create. Lite, demo and full versions are fully compatible, and you may continue using your data after purchasing the full version. You may freely distribute lite and demo versions while distributive archive remains unchanged. Feel free to beam it your friends!
The features, which are available only in commercial versions, are grayed. You can edit all data freely, limitations are concerned only advanced features. These features include filtering, reporting and generating of transactions by second, third, fourth category and "from" account, and security settings.
All the data you have collected using free lite version will be available for unlimited analysis and use after purchasing of full version.

Demo version
Demo version has all the features from full version except security settings. Number of transactions you can enter is limited by 100. After purchasing of full version you may continue using your previously collected data.

Personal version
Personal version have the same features as full version, except filtering, reporting and generating by "account from", "category 2", "category 3", "category 4". It costs 20$. Upgrade from personal to full costs 16$.

Purchasing and registration of full version
The full version of "Handy Finance" costs 35$. To get full version you need to visit our site http://handysolution.com and proceed to purchasing area. After payment you will be asked to enter your registration information (key1 and key2) in corresponding fields. Then registrar will send you full version and registration key. Without registration key full version completely wouldn't work. The 1.x version updates for registered users are free for now. Distribution of full version is strictly prohibited.
The other ways to pay registration fee are the Western Union and wire transfer directly to my account. These ways are slower, but cheaper, all prices are lowered, $30/$16/$14 for full/personal/upgrade. Contact us to get more info, support@handysolution.com.
To get your registration information see menu "? / Registration" in demo or lite version. After receiving full version enter please registration key in corresponding field and press "Register". Save your registration code in safe place! Then restart program to begin work.
Registered users have free technical support and upgrades. Unregistered users have limited technical support.
Attention! If you will change your PalmDesktop user name or device, the registration key will become invalid. After changing device and user name back to original, you can use your registration key again. Though in case of upgrade of device or OS you can ask us for free re-registration. The main criteria for free re-registration is the same Palm Desktop user name, it means the key1 expected to be the same.
