A ready-made expense tracker program in Python: spending by category and month, kept on your own computer

Example result

def update_total(self, *_):
    """Adds up the lines and the tax and shows the total under the table."""
    subtotal = sum(line.hours * line.rate for line in self.lines)
    tax = round(subtotal * self.tax_rate.get() / 100, 2)
    self.subtotal_label.config(text=f"Subtotal: {subtotal:,.2f}")
    self.tax_label.config(text=f"Tax: {tax:,.2f}")
    self.total_label.config(text=f"Total: {subtotal + tax:,.2f}")

About this service

For a household, a freelancer or a small club that wants to see where the money goes without giving bank logins to an app. You enter what you spent, pick a category, and the program adds it up by category and month. It is a typical ready-made program that we adapt with your details: your categories, currency, labels in your language and colours. Basic shows totals while it is open; from Standard expenses are saved in CSV or SQLite with monthly totals and a budget per category; in Premium you add income, simple charts, import of a CSV statement you download from your bank, export and an error log. We write it in Python with Tkinter, with a README. It records only what you enter: it does not connect to banks, give financial or tax advice or replace accounting software.

What is included

• What you getA ZIP archive with the Python code of the ready program adapted with your details, a README on installing Python, running it and building an .exe, and the code shown on the order page. From Standard, expenses saved to CSV or SQLite; in Premium, income, charts, bank CSV import, export and an error log.
• Ready and adaptedA typical tracker with your categories and currency
• By category and monthSee where the money goes
• BudgetsA monthly limit per category, from Standard
• No bank loginsData stays on your computer
• Build an .exeOptional steps with PyInstaller in the README

How it works

1. 1
   Your detailsYou give your categories, currency and language
2. 2
   AdaptingWe adapt the ready program and write the README
3. 3
   Try itYou run it on your computer
4. 4
   ChangesYou ask for changes within your package and send any error message

What we need from you

Your categories, currency and language; whether you want budgets per category; for Premium, a sample of your bank's CSV statement with amounts and names changed, so the import reads the right columns; your colours if you like; your system (Windows, macOS or Linux) and whether you want an .exe. Never send bank logins, passwords or card numbers.

We will ask you:

• Your categories
• Currency and language
• Budgets
• Which system will it run on?

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