The budget, the categories, every expense with its receipt behind it and the end date you set in the spring. You open the project and see where the kitchen renovation stands right now, without adding the expenses up by hand.
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That is the question we built projects for.
Every time we finished a renovation we were left wondering what it had actually come to. Half the receipts never turned up, and digging through the bank statements took longer than anyone was willing to spend.
The rest was just as scattered. The quote from the carpenter in somebody's mail, the measurements in a notes app, a budget in a spreadsheet nobody had opened since April. And in the middle of the build the question came up at the kitchen table every other week: how much have we spent so far?
Nobody could answer it without giving up an evening to the search. So we made the project the place the whole venture lives: the budget, the categories, every expense and the receipt behind it. The question has an answer now, and it takes five seconds to fetch.
An expense in the project is rarely just an amount. The row says Anna bought tiles and fittings at Bauhaus for €320 on 16 June, and the receipt is still behind it.
Sometimes only half the purchase belonged to the kitchen. The Hornbach row is marked 50 %, Leroy Merlin with an amount and Bauhaus with the whole receipt, so you see which it was without opening anything.
You put the Bauhaus receipt into the app and link it to the project before you have left the shop.
Anna's purchase is already in the project, and the materials budget has counted itself down.
Nobody has to remember what the tiles cost. The receipt and its link to the project are still in the app, so it is easy to look up afterwards.
You split €20,000 across four categories: Carpenter, Materials, Appliances and IKEA kitchen. The app counts each one down as the expenses land, and says what is left to allocate. Right now €0.
The carpenter has taken €3,980 of his €4,000, materials €3,720 of €4,000. The kitchen as a whole sits at 90%, and that is a number you see before the next order rather than after it.
You are standing in the shop wondering whether the appliances should be a model up. You open the project on your phone: €2,000 left of €20,000, and under the total is everything that has already gone.
Your partner sees the same number at home. Neither of you has to ring the other to find out what is left of the budget.
You can run several projects at once. The deck is a project of its own, with its own budget of €4,000 and its own end date in July. Two budgets, two curves, nothing mixed up. And a project does not have to mean renovation: a trip, a party or a wedding is planned in exactly the same way.
And once the kitchen is finished it stays. What it cost, which categories ran over, which receipts belonged to it. The next time somebody wonders what a kitchen comes to, you have a record of your own to look in.
Things that do not need a heading of their own, but that keep the project together.
The lists that belong to the build sit on the project's own tab, ticked off the same way as your other lists.
Kitchen renovation carries Household and Renovation. The same tags find receipts, lists and recipes.
The project carries its own end date, 31 August for the kitchen, and shows whether it is still active.
The app works out how much of the budget is not on any category yet, and writes the figure out.
Anna's card, John's card or the joint account. Every row says where the money actually went.
Kitchen renovation, Garden & deck and Garage can run in parallel, each with a budget of its own.
As many as you like. Every project gets its own budget, its own categories and its own end date.
Yes. Receipts, expenses and lists are linked to the project, and an expense can take the whole receipt, a share of it or an amount.
Yes. The budget is split per category and updates as the expenses land, so you see what has run over and what is left, category by category.
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