transaccion

yet another expense manager app

I would like this introduction to have a discussion about benefits of money management but I won’t go that far. And besides, who thinks about managing money, freaking nerds. Anyway, this app is only created because of two reasons: (i) my wife and I wanted to maximize our savings, and (ii) I wanted to write an app using elm-lang.

Okay, let’s start. Imagine you have an app where you can record your transactions and then it summarizes them for you. Now, think about it again. And again. Done? Oh yes, that’s what transaccion does.

Familiar? Maybe because you have used a similar app already. But let’s not focus on that.

Now, into the app. First, open this link: transaccion.

First, don’t attempt to login. That is very important. Now, add a record book, let’s call it “Personal”. Open the added book. Now, think of a transaction you did today, for example, you bought an expensive coffee for 50 zenny. With this example, I’ll enter “50”, “Leisure”, “starbucks coffee”, and press <enter>. Now your turn, think and enter a transaction.

You have added your first transaction. Do that for all your future transactions and see how the record grows. The app provides a summary for you. It even gives you a chart of your expenses, pretty dope, huh? You also have the option to enter your earnings. The app then summarizes your transactions accordingly.

The app is basically just that. The question is, where does the data go? To answer that question, let me start by saying that it is an unhosted app. Basically, I, the author, have no access of your data. Everything is saved in your device. However, you have the option to sync your data online using 5apps. You can login by signing in thru the orange button in the upper right of the webapp. But signing in beats the privacy issue, no? Yes and no. Even if you login to 5apps, even then I still have no access to your data. But 5apps storage is like dropbox or google drive, it is your own private cloud storage. Well, who knows, maybe 5apps can use your data. But anyway, I would like to be clear that I have no access to anything that you record using the app.

I’ll end by pointing something about the use of “book”. I realized that someone who monitors his/her money is also thinking about doing a business, or is doing a business already, so I designed the app to be organized by record books or books. For instance, one book for personal records, and the second book for the business. Or maybe you have multiple bank accounts, you can create a book for each account. With this kind of organizational scheme, you can have a good overview on how money flows thru your accounts.

That’s it. Record your transactions using this simple and intuitive app. Organize using multiple record books. And save your records in your local device or sync online.

Feel free to use the app. Sharing it would be very nice.