Does BandHelper fulfill its promise?

[arlo]

It would be great for me to use Bandhelper better as a bridging tool between the me as the admin of the band and those members that are reluctant to use any technologiy at all (they will always be there....).
so, bass tabs and lyrics to the bassman, lyrics and chords and tabs to the guitarist and so on.

Yesterday's release lets account administrators edit other users' personal fields on the song edit page. You'll see the shared field, your own personal field (if you're using personal sync for that field) and the personal fields for every user who has personal sync turned on for that field. So you can now enter custom lyrics or chords for other users, or make corrections for them, or quickly copy between shared and personal fields.

[arlo]

I worked through the idea of combining multiple inflows and outflows into one transaction, but it turned out to be no easier than entering a separate transaction for each. One reason for that is that BandHelper now supports different shares of income per user, so if you wanted to log multiple types of income for an event and had multiple users, the number of shares fields would multiply and get confusing. Another is that unlike standard accounting software, BandHelper tracks a separate balance for each user, so again, there is an additional dimension to the data that would make combining transactions pretty unwieldy.

I did make it easier to log distributions to multiple users as one transaction. Instead of clicking the Distribute button for an individual user on the Finance > Totals page, you can go to Finance > Transactions and click Add a Transaction and set the Type to Distribution. Then the amount owed to each user will appear next to their Share field. You can enter the actual amount you're going to distribute (e.g., rounding off values if paying in cash) and then BandHelper will calculate the total.

I also updated the Tracking Finances tutorial to provide more details and example scenarios for entering a set of related transactions:

https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/tracking_finances.html