Budgeto

Project Description

Budgeto is a web application to assist individuals who want to manage their expenses and gain clear insights into their spending patterns. Seamlessly upload your receipts, edit & filter items by categories, and view the trends of your expenses. See more. Spend less. Budgeto.

Who is it for?

• People who want to see their spending behaviour

What will it do?

• Allow users to set a daily, weekly, or monthly budget
• Visualize graphical representations of what the spending pattern looks like

What type of data will it store?

• User data (name, email, password - basic auth)
• JSON objects with item's name, item's price, and an automatically generated uuid
• Receipt object with date
• Categories

What will users be able to do with this data?

• Add a receipt
• Add a unique category
• See spending patterns
  • See if they are going over or under their budget

What is some additional functionality you can add/ remove based on time constraints?

• Analyzing spending patterns
• Making shopping lists from previous spending data

Project Task Requirements

Minimal Requirements (3-5)

• Create user, login, logout ✅
• Choose a category ✅
• Ability to enter receipt info ✅
• Set a budget ✅
• See spending: daily, monthly (in a plain format) ✅

"Standard" Requirements (3-7)

• Pie graph for spending ✅
• Line chart for spending ✅
• Show weekly summary on dashboard ✅
• Calendar to show total spending ✅
  • Pick a date or specific timeframe (day, month & custom range) ✅

Stretch Requirements (2-3)

• Warning messages for approaching budget ✅
  • Notifications ✅
• Parse a receipt from an image ✅
• Create some kind of grocery list ❗ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
  • Based on analytics ❗ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
• Generate suggestions ❗ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
• Look for offers, or find best price for certain items ❗ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Task Breakdown

Choose a category:

• Create buttons to choose categories (including icons)
• Allow user to create a custom category
• Be able to create and categorize before entering receipt info, and edit after

Enter receipt info:

• Create form for entering item name, quantity purchased, item price, date of spending, place of spend (optional)
• Add error handling for invalid inputs

Prototypes

• Choosing category:
• Uploading and parsing a receipt:
• Reports: