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Putler: Paypal Reporting, Monitoring and Planning tool for Windows, Linux and Mac

If your business accepts payments via Paypal, chances are you login to the Paypal website a few times in the day to check your balance. You would even keep an eye on email alerts of new sales and feel happy when you close the day with good sales.

The Entrepreneur’s Urge

I can tell you from my own experience that I am on the edge of my seat when we launch a new product. I am biting my nails when we push “Send” on a newsletter with a special offer. I am curious to find out how much money I made while I was sleeping, and check my Paypal balance the moment I start my computer.

You may be a web entrepreneur, a microISV, a startup or an expert offering online courses. The urge to see how well you are selling is common to all. You may be looking forward to the first sale of your newly launched product or want to track your monthly performance against your targets.

The Problem

Logging in Paypal takes time. And if you keep it idle the session also times out quickly. Now this is good for Paypal, but bad for us. All we want to do is check the Paypal balance and find out what products are selling. We want some quick bits of information and get back to our work. The process of logging in and viewing details eats up time. And biggest, it distracts you!

The Solution: Putler

Now sure, you can write-up a small program that will check your Paypal balance. You could host it on your internal server and keep hitting it when you feel like satisfying your natural urge to check your Paypal balance! But why to make things complicated (and spend time understanding and building those scripts) when you can have someone give it to you on a platter?

Welcome Putler!
Putler shows your Paypal balance on your desktop, notifies you of balance changes, lets you set a target, shows today’s transactions and tells you how well are you doing against the target. It’s a simple and effective tool to watch your Paypal account right from your computer.

Just give your Paypal API information to Putler and he will start monitoring your Paypal balance. He will gently notify you when the balance changes. He even draws a nice chart of your daily balances along with a target you may have set.

This gives you a never before visibility on targets vs performance for your Paypal business account.

Apps Magnet Launches Putler Alpha. Get it now for free!

We are releasing a public Alpha of Putler today. Get it free, monitor your Paypal account, achieve business goals, and give us feedback!

Download Putler for free now!

We are starting with only the basic features, but will make Putler smarter and stronger as he grows! Do send in your ideas and suggestions on how we can make him better!

Thank you!

We applied for an iPhone developers account at start of December. It’s been about 3 months now, and we have not yet got the Developers Account despite sending all documents and repeated followups.

We have 4 iPhone products ready to deploy, but our hands are tied because we don’t yet have a developer’s account. We would get emails saying that Apple is looking into this and that we should be patient. But how long?? A delay of 3 months would simply kill your idea. Why does Apple have to be so lazy in granting a developer’s account? I am scared to think how much time they will take to approve an application for AppStore.

The frustration levels went so high, we decided to just drop the plans to release these products.

Then we got an idea! Why not release them on the Mac?

So from frustration to joy, we present to you Picture Puzzle!

Picture Puzzle - more info and download

Picture Puzzle is a Mac OSX memory test game. You see a collection of pictures one after another. The objective of the game is to arrange them in right order after initial display. This tests how well you can remember the order of images. It stimulates your brain and helps you remember things better.

It’s a free download, and we encourage you to donate!

Are you an iPhone developer? Know someone? How long did it take for them? Are we the only sufferers?

Our new venture – appsMagnet – released its first product – Reports module for activeCollab today. Here’s a brief!

• Do you want to track progress of your projects week by week?
• Would you like a dashboard that shows you this progress graphically, for all projects from a single screen?
• Would you like to track hours worked, kind of work done, trends of work from the same place?

Our activeCollab Reports Module gives you all of that! (And if you are not using activeCollab to manage your projects yet, you should seriously consider it!)

Reporting Dashboard

We can bet it will save you more money than it’s price! Only $39!

Features:

• Quickly see your project’s velocity – even velocity of all projects combined
• Impressive collection of charts – Burndown Chart, Iteration Chart, Hours Chart
• Additional Information to track project progress – Most Active Tickets, Longest Open Tickets
• Weekly progress measurement
• View reports for given date range
• Simple and elegant user interface
• One click, no hassle installation
• Works with activeCollab – a super project management system
• It’s only $39, worth it even if you track one project with it!

Next Actions

• Check out our demo video.
• Read Reports Module Documentation
• It’s only $39, we can bet it will save you more money than it’s price! Go ahead and buy it!