Budgie

arealglitterboy

Description

Budgie is a react based web app for managing personal expenses and budgeting. By offering a suite of expense tracking, visual budgeting tools, sharable savings goals, and more, Budgie offers a simple and straight forward way to save money and analyse areas where you might be over spending.

Goals

• [ ] Add [Chart.js]() to graph expenses
• [x] Add testing framework
• [ ] Add styling
• [ ] Incorporate more tools into one suite of tools (with the expensify portion being only part of whole experience)
• [ ] Develop live version
• [ ] Get screenshots for GitHub
• [ ] Create branding/aesthetic for the web app

Ideas

Components

Countdowns

• Could be used as savings countdown, you set a target amount and a target date and budgie will calculate how much money you need to deposit per day or per week.
  • When you miss a deposit, it will just recalculate to be a little bit more.
  • Maybe could be set to strict or lax amounts, ie. saving for a holiday would be hopeful for an amount, but less or more is ok, whereas saving for a car needs to be a set amount.

Bins

• Bins that show how much has been spent in certain areas.
• Could also be used for saving, ie. you can put money into bins which shows that you are comfortable spending $x$ amount on this specific thing(s).

Budget Bands

• Visual interactive graph that allows you to set the general proportion of your money on.
  • Could just be resizable <div>s with icons and colours
  • When you make a payment, then it will be added to the graph with its proportion of your total amount of money.
  • If you spent more on food than you were wanting to, it will burst its bounds, give a percentage larger than expected, ie. $\color{red}\sf+20\%$.

Expenses & Credits

• Merge expensify expense list with a credits list so that you can show all money going in and out.

Functionality

CSV Export

• Click a button and get a descriptive run down of your budgeting

PDF Export

• Click a button and get a visual breakdown of your budgeting

Share Target

• Maybe offer the ability to share a bin with someone.
• Creating a share link will make it available to anyone with a link.
  • Has option to send money to you to help reach goal?