MyFin is a handy home accounting tool

Hello!

I want to introduce you to my development. This is a minimalistic and convenient tool for doing home bookkeeping. Here is a screenshot for the seed: Details under the cut.

Foreword

Recently, several posts about various financial management tools slipped through the hub. I was interested in this topic, but something did not suit each decision. Whether it’s paid, cumbersome, privacy issues or something else - it doesn’t matter.
After not much deliberation, I decided to write my "convenient and fast bike."
And he wrote! Meet - MyFin !

What is it

The php web application runs on your web server.
Interface via browser.
You can install it on a server on the network or on localhost.

Functions

1. Adding, editing, and deleting events (an event is a record of receipt or spending of money).
2. Event viewer, with a very convenient sampling system.
3. That's it :) But that’s enough!

Sampling system

Currently, there are 3 criteria available that can be used to make selections:

1. Time span
2. Type of event (income / expense)
3. Tags

You can select at the same time for several criteria. For example, by type and tag.
For clarity, I will give examples in the form of sentences:

• "All events for this month"
• "All events from August 1 to September 15, 2010"
• “Events for this year tagged 'salary'”
• “Events marked simultaneously with the tag 'salary' and 'main job'”
• “Events of type 'revenue' tagged with 'our project'”

etc. A convenient and simple interface has been developed for compiling samples. I think you can not describe everything in the screenshot. I’ll say separately about tags. If among the selection criteria there is already a criterion of type 'by tag', you can either click on the tag in the list of events - then the criteria will have two criteria on the tag, or click on the tag in the right column then in the criteria there will be only the tag that you clicked on , and the one that was gone. If you have criteria of 2 or more (there may be as many as you like) criteria of type 'by tag', then only those events that are marked by all of the listed tags will be displayed. In fact, everything is simple, you will quickly figure it out :)

How to use

There is complete freedom. If you want to record everything down to the smallest expenses and incomes, you want to add only large ones.
It all depends on what you want to monitor and what you want to analyze.
Do you want to make only your personal expenses, you want family expenses, you want both of them and mark them with appropriate tags so that you can then make selections.

For example, if you don’t understand where the money is going, although you don’t seem to buy anything big, it’s possible that a lot of money is spent on small expenses and it makes sense to follow them.

Maybe this program is suitable for managing the finances of a small commercial project.

How to arrange tags - also depends only on what kind of samples you plan to make later, in principle, you can not set them at all.

In general, this is just a tool how to use it and whether you need it at all, decide for yourself :)

Pros and cons

+ Open source
+ Simplicity
+ Good sampling system
+ Your data is on your server
+ Free
+ Full cross-platform

- Need a web server (at least on a home computer)

± Few functions

References

demo
page of the project - download, and installation instructions (installation is very simple)