Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

thanks esiravegna.
how do you suggest these accounts can be used.
the only way I can imagine at the moment to keep things simple is to associate each budget category with one account , which can be a current, savings, credit card account. So basically each budget will come from one of these accounts.

This way we can check how much has been spent from each account on various categories. It may not be as useful to some.

For security reasons I dont intend to store the account numbers as such but just identifiers e.g credit card ending 1001 can be represented as cc1001.

any other ideas/suggestions to above from anyone welcome I have a few days at hand free due to the vacations so I can try to develop some quick features or maybe another useful app.

I have some pending suggestions as well from previous posts/emails, if time permits I will try to do them.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

Yes, that's how I'd implement accounts. They doesn't necsarely has to be associated with a real life account, but more a way to keep sepparate spending tracking: A bank account, a credit card, savings maybe, etc.

Thanks a lot!

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

App looks great, and will be very useful to me, however im having a problem where when I enter an expense (first time I did all my monthly expenses) and each time click 'save to db'. When I exit the app and open it again, there are no expenses? Am I doing something wrong?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

That's likely because it only really saves the data when you have registered the app.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

Ahhh right. Cheers nath.

**Goes off to register & donate**

Excellent work krk, I tip my hat to you :D

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

Buddy is now promoted to maemo.org downloads.

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/buddy/

thanks to everybody who tested/used/voted.
A new major version is to be released soon after its been tested.
One of the key features being accounts support as many have requested.

cheers

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

Everybody,

this is to inform that there is a scenario with buddy where you can end up losing data.
this is how it occurs step by step, so you don't end up doing it.

1. if you archive data.
2. and you open any archive for viewing using the unarchive option.
3. and then you close the app without "resetting back to current/main db".

If you use the unarchiver I suggest dont close the app without resetting back to the current db, the option is there in the unarchiver. If you reset then there is no issue.

I will release a fix for this along with the next major release Im working on which comes with account support, wifi sync, and currency support.

thanks.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

i was searching fapman using the keywords "accounting" "finance" and expenses" and this app pops out......useful.....thanks.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

just created accounts using buddy for my main bank (where all my paycheque goes :D) and my Credit card.

this Buddy app tells me that i am spending just right...:)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Buddy - a budget and expense manager for maemo.
 

if anybody is interested in helping to translate buddy to any language of choice please get in touch with me via a PM/mail.
If the translations are ready in time for the next update then I can package that into the release.

thanks.
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krk969