Features · Projects

A trip, a renovation or a party, kept in one place.

Some spending belongs together and should be seen together. A project is a bag for those receipts: a trip, a kitchen, a wedding. It has its own total, its own budget if you want one, and it keeps every currency it was spent in apart.

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A project in ExpenseGauge on a phone called Lisbon, September. It shows $742.00 and €105.90 spent, from five receipts, with buttons to add receipts and to split between people, and the receipts in it listed below, from Livraria Ribeira at €18.90 to Alfama Tram Kiosk at €6.40. — A trip in two currencies, each kept in its own money.

How it works

Make one, fill it, read it.

Make a project

On the Projects tab, tap + New, name it, and say what it is — a trip, an event or something else. Give it dates and a budget if you like.

Put receipts in

Open the project and tap Add receipts, then tick the ones that belong. Untick to take one out. A receipt can also be put in a project from the receipt itself.

See what it cost

The project adds up what is in it, in each currency, and keeps a box for notes. Mark it finished when it is over.

Two currencies, never blended

The euros stay euros.

A trip is the case that breaks most budgeting apps. Convert every foreign receipt into home currency at today’s rate and you invent a number nobody paid; leave them out and the month is wrong the other way.

Here a receipt keeps the currency it was printed in. A project with a flight paid in dollars and dinners paid in euros shows both totals side by side — what the trip cost in the money you actually spent — and the rest of your books are not distorted by it.

The Projects and Events screen of ExpenseGauge on a phone with buttons for a new project and for splitting an amount. Two events are listed: the Maple and Main receipt of 1 October, split four ways with $83.82 owed, and Lisbon, September, from 18 to 24 September, $742.00 and €105.90 across five receipts in two currencies. — Every project and event at a glance, with what each one cost.

Good for

Anything with a beginning and an end.

A trip

Flights, hotels and every coffee abroad, in the currencies they were paid in.

A renovation

Every trip to the hardware store, against the budget you gave the kitchen.

An event

A wedding, a birthday, a party — and, if the cost is shared, split it from the same screen.

A side project

The receipts for one piece of work kept together, ready to hand over or claim back.

Straight answers

Common questions

Can a project have its own budget?

Yes. Give it a figure when you make it or later, and the project shows what has been spent against it.

What happens to receipts in different currencies?

Each keeps the currency it was paid in, and the project shows one total per currency. They are never added together at a rate somebody made up.

Can I split a project with other people?

Yes. A project can be split between people from its own screen, with who owes what worked out. See splitting expenses.

Does a receipt in a project still count in my month?

Yes. A project is a way of seeing receipts together; they still count in the month they were paid.

Where next

Start a project for the next trip.

Make it before you go, and every receipt from the trip has somewhere to land.

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