GOLD DIGGER : USER GUIDE

Document Version: 0.01

Document Date: 07/01/2024

 

 

Intro

Design Philosopy

GoldDigger (from hereon will be known as GD) is an app for keeping and monitoring daily budget expenditures. The way of how the app presented is simplistic and direct. The app is suited for everyday people on the go.

 

How it works

GD, the app, keeps records of all entries and stores them locally. There are no remote server where the data would be linked on to.

 

Features, Terminology & Usage

The general usage of GoldDigger is basically Left & Right movement in order to get to the pages of information that the user seek or manipulate.

Transactions Entry - refers to set of transaction that may include details such as date of transaction, the direction of funds, types of transaction, description of transactions and the amount involved.

Transaction Data Entry

Date - is a touch listener box when touched/tapped on will opened up a date selector dialog box. User will select the desired date from this dialog box.

Fund Direction ("Receive Fund" & "Payout") - are checkbox choices as an indicator of a particular amount movement. Either being "substracted from" or being "added into".

Category Name / Types - is a drop-down box containing simplified description of the transaction. Category Name/Types has a purpose, as it will be use to marshall the summaries of transaction for the user to do overall review. The Category Name on this page may only be choose from, while to define a new category will have to be done on it's own page.

Description is a text box for added details of a particular transaction. It is an extension for the category/types name.

 

Transaction Types Page

Types Category Editor

Transaction Types Page / Category Page is where the names of Types/categories are defined. The necessity of simplification will appear in the next Month Summary Page

New Types / Category Name is a text-box where user key-in a category name to be saved.

Types / Category Pool is a drop-down menu containing list of saved category/type names.

SAVE - button to be clicked on once a new category name is set.

DELETE - button to be clicked on after selecting a particular category to be deleted. *Warning - may have undesired affect on existing database.

RENAME - button for renaming selected category

 

Transaction Details

Transaction Details

Date Selector

 

 

Monthly summary

Month Summary page

This page contains summary of the month selected. User only has to select the desired month-year from the drop-down box and the cummulative and summarized transactions of the month will be shown in the Category+Total_amount table.

 

Monthly report

 

Example Typical Usage

Example of transactions;
This example show a excerpt transactions for a house-wife, who also does side-job as insurance agent;
1) Buy Groceries for home --- $43.20
2) Insurance sales commision received -- $240.00
3) commision paid to assistant -- $40.00

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