Sole Accounts Manager

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Inspiration

We are currently starting a partnership, so we thought about the challenges a sole trader faces - managing your business finances if you are using your personal bank account.

What it does

It allows you to import your banking data, tag individual transactions and bank accounts like you would your email so you can ignore certain transactions from analysis (we weren't able to fully implement this), visualize your financial data, and generate an income statement that you can print and use for your books.

How we built it

We simply made it like you would make a website but in node.js and used the electron library to package it into a standalone program.

Challenges we ran into

Implementing the API with the IPC system electron uses proved to be quite challenging, though we got there in the end.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to make a standalone application with just the web technologies which we are all familiar with. We laid the foundations for generating an official income statement document.

What we learned

We need to use a frame work that allows us to create interactive responsive UIs, the perfect candidate would be react.js - a library made by Facebook used to make apps like discord. This would have allowed us to work quicker.