Frequently Asked Questions

Not yet. A Windows version of Budget that syncs with Budget Touch is in development.

No. Apple does not allow developers access to the USB connection for syncing.

In order for the iPhone and Mac to talk, they need to be connected to the same network. If you have a wifi network at home, usually you will be able to connect to it with your iPhone/iPod touch, and everything will work fine. If it doesn't, you can try creating a computer-to-computer network on your Mac, and connecting to that with your iPod. To find out how to create a computer-to-computer network, open Help on your Mac, and search for 'creating a computer-to-computer network'.

If your Mac and iPhone still cannot locate each other when connected via a computer-to-computer network, it may help to turn on internet sharing on your Mac. Some users have found that it helps to turn on Internet Sharing in the Sharing pane of System Preferences, to share the Mac's ethernet connection with devices connected via Airport, before you create the computer-to-computer network. Try this if your computer-to-computer network does not work.

Syncing via WiFi is slower than USB which Apple restricts to iTunes only. Use the settings in Budget to restrict the amount of data being synced to speed up the process.

The desktop version of Budget has two ways to transfer data with Budget Touch. Sync Data merges together the new data from Budget Touch with the desktop Budget document. Both Budget Touch and Budget will have this merged data when the process is complete. Sync Data is useful when you are recording transactions on Budget Touch and want to bring them back to your desktop document. Push completely replaces the data on Budget Touch with data from the desktop Budget document. This can be useful when you want to send a completely different file to your device with Budget Touch, or if you want to make sure any playing around you've done in Budget Touch is ignored.