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Post by chris on Feb 8, 2014 8:12:48 GMT
Can I assume that behind the scenes, the devs are all busy on the really important stuff like tax statements between arbitrary dates? Or a more parsable CSV statement download so we can roll our own?? It's on our radar for later this year but not yet an active development.
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Post by agent69 on Feb 8, 2014 10:27:44 GMT
On the loan units section of my account there is a column showing the original loan term. Is it possible to add another column showing remaining loan term?
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Post by chris on Feb 8, 2014 14:53:03 GMT
Does anyone know what the number or pair of numbers in brackets at the end of the narrative on the statement mean? It shows stuff like "(80)" or "(86:63)". Are they references to passages from the P2P bible ? They're ids of some sort or another that are useful for us when someone references a transaction as we can then look up additional details internally. Not particularly useful for the end user though.
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Post by chris on Feb 8, 2014 15:02:30 GMT
I'd be grateful if the Lend/Auction page showed my Pre-Bids, Cancelled pre-bids, Live Bid, accepted bid or drawn down bid totals. All the loan names start to read and look the same after a while so it would help me know instantly that I'd already looked and invested if there was some of my cash on it. At the moment it takes far to long to drill down each loan to see if I'm "in" or not. The perfect solution would be to provide a one line per-loan personal comment line but we'll have that later Ideally, I would be able to maintain my own notes but I check AC regularly various location so my notes aren't always readily available. Noted. This whole section is due a redesign but it's not scheduled until Q2.
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Post by chris on Feb 10, 2014 22:41:29 GMT
Regarding the statement. The web page/html one goes up to the current date and time, so it shows offers for the auction 70 that started today but the csv and "excel" extracts only show data up to yesterday. Are there some programmers at AC that are going out of their way to make using the extracts really difficult. Why go to the trouble of omitting data from the extracts ?!?!? Pretty simple mistake to make actually, if you compare a timestamp against a date then it will cut off at midnight at the beginning of that date. We are aware and it's on our to do list, but there are larger changes to the statement that need to happen to make them useful as discussed elsewhere in these forums.
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Post by chris on Feb 10, 2014 22:53:44 GMT
I'm just trying to do the right thing by the tax man here... I do appreciate the struggle, and sorry if my previous post came across as grumpy - wasn't the intention. We have a long list of things like this that we want to change, fix or tweak and only limited resources with a major project taking up the next few weeks of time for our entire team of developers. I've managed to sneak a few tweaks in as they've been related to the new stuff we're working on, or in some case have been a prerequisite, or they have been prioritised by the MD knowing that this would have a knock on effect on delivery dates for the big stuff. I want to get the statements changed so that bids are removed from them completely until payment is actually taken when the loan is paid out, as they can then be set in stone. But this is unrelated to our big project so isn't a priority until Q2 at the earliest. We are also tracking every last transaction and will have a tax statements system in place by Q3 at the latest.
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Post by mikes1531 on Feb 11, 2014 3:35:54 GMT
I'm just trying to do the right thing by the tax man here... We are also tracking every last transaction and will have a tax statements system in place by Q3 at the latest. Are you saying we won't have a statement to use with our 2013/14 tax returns until possibly as late as September? Can I remind AC that that's rather too close to the deadline for filing paper self-assessment tax returns?
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Post by chris on Feb 11, 2014 7:31:57 GMT
Are you saying we won't have a statement to use with our 2013/14 tax returns until possibly as late as September? Can I remind AC that that's rather too close to the deadline for filing paper self-assessment tax returns? I don't actually know exactly when this work will be prioritised as I'm not sole arbiter of our schedule. At the moment the team has a full schedule until April after which the board of directors, of which I am one of seven, will set the priorities. The tax returns are on our collective radar so will no doubt be one of the features prioritised after April but I do not know when yet. We are aware of the deadlines and will make sure that the functionality is in place in plenty of time. The Q3 commitment (which also covers delivering in July or August) was simply because I do not know exactly when we will deliver but it has to be within that timeframe. Edit: I will keep you posted though. Usually I'm fairly open about our short to mid term schedule. I'm having to keep our big March / April release a little bit quiet as we believe it to give us a large competitive advantage, but I will reveal all as soon as I am able.
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Post by mikeb on Feb 11, 2014 19:15:10 GMT
Regarding the statement. The web page/html one goes up to the current date and time, so it shows offers for the auction 70 that started today but the csv and "excel" extracts only show data up to yesterday. Are there some programmers at AC that are going out of their way to make using the extracts really difficult. Why go to the trouble of omitting data from the extracts ?!?!? Already reported (to Chris) as a possible "<" vs "<=" error in the end date. As a workaround, to get all transactions exported for a calendar month, go from "1st" to "1st of next" and it will include all of them.
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Post by chris on Feb 11, 2014 19:34:10 GMT
Regarding the statement. The web page/html one goes up to the current date and time, so it shows offers for the auction 70 that started today but the csv and "excel" extracts only show data up to yesterday. Are there some programmers at AC that are going out of their way to make using the extracts really difficult. Why go to the trouble of omitting data from the extracts ?!?!? Already reported (to Chris) as a possible "<" vs "<=" error in the end date. As a workaround, to get all transactions exported for a calendar month, go from "1st" to "1st of next" and it will include all of them. Same issue actually - comparing a date to a timestamp. You are correct on the workaround.
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Post by jevans4949 on Feb 11, 2014 19:56:51 GMT
Regarding the tax statement, there is a workround if you just started investing in this tax year. Calculate how much you transferred in, less any you transferred out. When the tax year changes, check "Total Investment" on the account dashboard screen. Subtract from that the net money transferred in, and that should be the gross interest earned. Which should be OK, unless your accountant is going to do anything clever with it, and provided none of the loans get written off before then. <touches wood>.
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Post by mrclondon on Feb 11, 2014 20:43:48 GMT
Regarding the tax statement, there is a workround if you just started investing in this tax year. Calculate how much you transferred in, less any you transferred out. When the tax year changes, check "Total Investment" on the account dashboard screen. Subtract from that the net money transferred in, and that should be the gross interest earned. Which should be OK, unless your accountant is going to do anything clever with it, and provided none of the loans get written off before then. <touches wood>. Unfortunately not quite ... most (but not necessarily all) cashback should be exempt from tax as it is an inducement to invest not part of the return ... some of the earlier loans had 3.5% cashback which when applied to a 4 figure loan bid is a fair bit of cash. Without double checking I think all AC's cashback are genuine cashback, but some of the other P2x platforms confuse the issue by labeling some discretionary interest as cashback on transaction statements ... TC and FS spring to mind as guilty parties. The only way you can play this with a straight bat to HMRC is to have a copy of a tax statement from the platform. This year a delay to Q3 for receipt of a tax statement is not a major issue for me, BUT some years I'm due a fairly hefty tax rebate (due to HMRC refusing to increase my tax code sufficeintly to account for higher rate tax relief on SIPP contributions ), and those years I prefer to get the tax form done in early May as the tax rebate is processed a few days after submitting the self assesement form online.
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Post by chris on Feb 11, 2014 21:12:24 GMT
This year a delay to Q3 for receipt of a tax statement is not a major issue for me, BUT some years I'm due a fairly hefty tax rebate (due to HMRC refusing to increase my tax code sufficeintly to account for higher rate tax relief on SIPP contributions ), and those years I prefer to get the tax form done in early May as the tax rebate is processed a few days after submitting the self assesement form online. Once developed it will be a generic live solution so for subsequent years you'll be able to view a live statement (or at least updated daily).
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Post by Jim on Feb 11, 2014 22:21:02 GMT
Chris, could I suggest an update to the 'Your Loan Units' grid of the account page. I would like an additional column after the accrued interest column showing the next payment date (or date payment due if not paid yet). Not a big deal at the moment with most of my bids in Accepted/Live, but as the list grows, having to drill down into each loan will get a bit tedious.
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Post by mikes1531 on Apr 1, 2014 11:33:31 GMT
Chris, could I suggest an update to the 'Your Loan Units' grid of the account page. I would like an additional column after the accrued interest column showing the next payment date (or date payment due if not paid yet). Not a big deal at the moment with most of my bids in Accepted/Live, but as the list grows, having to drill down into each loan will get a bit tedious. Here's another request for the 'Your Loan Units' section -- showing the maturity date. If I have any significant bills coming up, it would be nice to be able to tell at a glance whether I have any loans that will be maturing around that time so that I know whether I'll automatically have money available or whether I'd need to try to sell some loan parts to raise the necessary funds. Also, if I'm going to be away from the internet for a while -- it sometimes happens when I'm on holiday -- it would be good to know if I have any loans scheduled to mature during that period so that I possibly could trade those parts for a loan maturing at a different time. And I'd find a chart showing maturity amounts on a timeline to be useful as well.
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