Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Downloading
You can download Maxim Money from here.

Pre-requisites
Maxim Money runs on .NET 8. This is a cross-platform open-source framework for building software applications. You may not have this installed on your PC. If not, please visit https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0 and download the .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.16 installer for your hardware (this one for 64 bit Windows).

Installing
There is no install currently. Simply unzip the contents of the MaximMoney.zip file into a folder, e.g. C:\Program Files\Maxim Money\

You should see the following files within the zip:
  • Maxim Money - Help.chm [ Help File ]
  • MaximMoney.dll [ Main Executable ]
  • MaximMoney.exe [ Wrapper Executable, simple way to launch the app ]
  • MaximMoney.runtimeconfig.json [ Runtime information, required so .Net knows which version to use ]
  • Readme.txt [ Readme file ]
You may need to right-click on MaximMoney.exe > Properties, and select Unblock, because Windows may flag this as a suspicious file from the Internet (because it's not yet a commonly downloaded file).

To launch, simply run MaximMoney.exe

Getting Started
When Maxim Money starts up, it will display a mostly blank screen, with just an empty Accounts list on the left-hand-side.

You can either just click on the Add Account button to create an account and then start manually adding transactions to that account, or if you have an existing copy of MS Money or an Internet bank statement, you can export data into either QIF or OFX formats and then simply drag-and-drop the files into either the Accounts list, or an individual Account transaction view.

For further details see the online help.

Feedback
I’m very keen on getting as much feedback as possible. Please tell me about any bugs you come across. Errors are logged, but it helps to know what you were doing, to assist me in trying to reproduce the issue.

Also, let me know about anything you don’t like, or that you find clunky.

And if there are features you would like added, please let me know.
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