OK, so first off I want to say, GREAT WORK! I was so pleased I immediately went and made another donation. Keep up the good work! From trying the new features, here are some initial suggestions/comments. On currencies. (1) I tried the new currency capability, but it doesn't seem to support all currencies yet. I'm an annoying case of someone who needs a more unusual currency - Guatemalan Quetzales. It looks like it supports the main currencies found at http://www.xe.com/ucc/ - but the complete list of all currencies is at http://www.xe.com/ucc/full/). In any case, I can't find Quetzales in the list!
(2) I can't use the new currency function in any case, even with the currencies that are supported. I have bank accounts in more than one currency, but Buddy forces all your accounts to be in the same currency - the 'default' one. (3) Another reason I couldn't use the currency function is that my bank decides that the conversion rate is going to be, the one Buddy finds online is hardly ever going to be correct when the transaction finally shows up on my statement. (4) So for me there has to be an easy way of going back and manually changing the conversion rate later. Ideally Buddy would store the original currency, the conversion rate, and the currency converted to for every transaction, and you could update later by changing any one of these. I'm going to have to continue with my old way of managing foreign currencies - writing all the details out in the description and figuring it all out by hand!
On the new accounts feature: (1) Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I can use this new feature, either! I want to use the accounts feature to keep track of how much money is in my accounts, and how much I've rung up on credit cards. It seems the new account feature isn't set up for that - the main issue is that Buddy forces every category to be associated with an account, and only one account. So if I pay my grocery bill with cash one day, credit card the next, and bank card the third day, there's no way of entering this into Buddy. It wants my groceries to be paid always with the same account, the same for all the other categories.
(2) I haven't actually figured out what the new accounts feature is for. If not for keeping track of what's in your accounts, debit or credit, then what? There is no display of your current balance, so I guess the intended use is different. But I can't figure out what it is!
(3) There also isn't a way of handling debit/credit accounts differently (with a debit account, transaction amounts are removed from the balance; with a credit account, they are added).
(4) I can't seem to move money between accounts with Buddy. So if I want to set up a savings account, I would like to be able to move money from my current account into my savings account. There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this.
(5) Interest on debit/credit accounts is not supported.
(6) What I have figured out a use for accounts in Buddy is to use them as a sort of 'supercategory' so I can keep track of groups of categories. That's actually turned out to be quite handy --'household' for all my household categories like bills, rent, and groceries, 'entertainment' for all my entertainment categories like eating out and the gym, and so on. But surely this isn't what the accounts feature was intended for!