Personal money management a no-brainer with launch of free online tool

January 2010

InCheck, an online personal finance management tool is now available to everyone with web access for free.  InCheck is powered by Pastel, South Africa’s leading developer of accounting, payroll and business management software and promises to make personal money management a breeze.  It’s secure, reliable and 100% free. Additional features include:

Tough times call for stricter control of personal finances. But it’s not easy to save money if you don’t know how it’s being spent. InCheck personal finance software is the perfect tool to manage transactions and track finances.

Softline Pastel is offering InCheck for free. So, anyone who is anxious about their festive financial excess, made a resolution that this is the year to balance the books, wants to save money or is just concerned about good money management should register on www.pastelincheck.co.za. There are no hidden clauses of catches – just money saving technology.

The last few years have been difficult for South African consumers. “High interest rates, the National Credit Act and last year’s global economic crisis have made all of us, regardless of economic status, acutely aware of how stretched our bank balance really is,” says Steven Cohen, managing director of Softline Pastel. “Initially we wanted to develop a piece of software to help our clients manage their personal finances. But because we’ve all been through the wringer and need as much help with our money management as we can get, Pastel has decided to make the program available to everyone.”

The free software, launched on 14 January 2010, is easy to use. There’s no technical and banking jargon and the process to classify, analyse and track income and expenses will make sense to any user, regardless of their financial savvy.  Users can set up the accounts they want to track and capture transactions into the system. For immediate tracking and analysis, historic transactions can be imported into InCheck directly from online banking. 

Simple graphs provide an uncomplicated way to see an organised breakdown of monthly activity as well as tracking over time. Also, being online means no software installation or ongoing maintenance, backups and upgrades.

InCheck is 100% secure. It has been developed with the latest security technologies including SSL security, secure firewalls, defensive programming and encrypted data.

“With financial freedom now just a mouse-click away, I encourage everyone to register with Pastel InCheck (www.pastelincheck.co.za),” says Cohen. “It’s not every day you’re offered something priceless for free.”