spiral-project / ihatemoney

A simple shared budget manager web application

I hate money

I hate money is a web application made to ease shared budget management. It keeps track of who bought what, when, and for whom; and helps to settle the bills.

• Online documentation
• Hosted version
• Cloud Providers
• Mailing list (to get updates when needed).

The code is distributed under a BSD beerware derivative: if you meet the people in person and you want to pay them a craft beer, you are highly encouraged to do so.

Requirements

• Python: version 3.7 to 3.12.
• Backends: SQLite, PostgreSQL, MariaDB (version 10.3.2 or above), Memory.

Current direction (as of 2024)

Ihatemoney was started in 2011, and we believe the project has reached a certain level of maturity now. The overall energy of contributors is not as high as it used to be.

In addition, there are now several self-hosted alternatives (for instance cospend, spliit).

As maintainers, we believe that the project is still relevant but should gear towards some kind of "maintenance mode":

• Simplicity is now the main goal of the project. It has always been a compass for the project, and the resulting software is appreciated by both users and server administrators. For us, "simplicity" is positive and encompasses both technical aspects (very few javascript code, manageable dependencies, small code size...) and user-visible aspects (straightforward interface, no need to create accounts for people you invite, same web interface on mobile...)

• Stability is prioritized over adding major new features. We found ourselves complexifying the codebase (and the interface) while accepting some contributions. Our goal now is to have a minimal set of features that do most of the job. We believe this will help lower the maintainance burden.

• User interface and user experience improvements are always super welcome !

It is still possible to propose new features, but they should fit into this new direction. Simplicity of the UI/UX and simplicity of the technical implementation will be the main factors when deciding to accept new features.

Contributing

Do you wish to contribute to IHateMoney? Fantastic! There's a lot of very useful help on the official contributing page.

You can also donate some money. All funds will be used to maintain the hosted version.

Join the other contributors.

Translation status

ihatemoney's Issues

Various improvement on our usage of flask.

I've added some ideas into the README, could be interesting to have a deep look on how to get a better structure etc.
https://github.com/ametaireau/budget-manager/blob/master/TODO

Have a dashboard for admins to have stats

Having a simple a nice dashboard, mainly for admins, could allow to have some stats about the number of members/projects/etc.

Design, text on the right is not too visible

… and there is a problem with the color of the font (probably), it seems. Chromium 15 does the following capture: http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/budget-manager-chromium.png

Management of expenses

List the expenses for this project. Allow adding expenses.

Add a flag for the language

In addition to the automatic detection of the lang, there should be an option to change the lang.

Fix some spelling mistakes

In the french translation, there are some mistakes in the columns titles. (à instead of a)

"Shared" users error

It is not possible to add the same user (or a different one under the same name) on different project.

Editing a bill resets the payer

When editing a bill, the select form does not select the actual payer by default and so resets it.

Write tests for all the existing use cases

Create a fabric script to deploy it easily

Being able to deploy stuff via ssh is one thing, being able to do it automatically would be better.

Have a look at fabric and on how to make fabfiles :)

Manage transfers

Transfers of money from one person to another should be handled in a simple way.

Make a nice design

We need something fancy :)

Do not ask users with a javascript prompt to confirm deletion

As suggested by @Tinmn it could be better to change the link into another one, asking the user to click again.

XSS security issue on delete links

Delete should use POST, not GET (For members, expenses and projects), to avoid XSS attacks.

Make the new bill link more visible

The "new bill" link is too discrete IMHO and this is the most clicked link in the UI

No REST API doc

The Readme file states:

"Yep, you're right, there is a REST API with this. Head to the api documentation to know more."

I wish I could find it.
kthxbye :op

Having a design with a menu

Add a menu to the existing design and make the navigation fluid.

Translate the application in french (at least), i18n

Password recovery functionality

Provide a REST API

All the things should be available trough a simple HTTP REST Interface.

Put it in production

Deploy it (via a fabric script?)

Paint the slidebar in green

well, that's it :)

Usability - Password should be named "code"

… or at least there should be some information about the fact that this password is meant to be shared when creating the project.

Export and import features

As suggested by @Tinmn, it could be useful to be able to export the list of bills into a CSV format. I think we could achieve this using a particular format with the REST API (See #27) , thus, we would be able to provide export into others formats as well such as XML, JSON etc.

Add a jquery date picker for the date

The picker should support localisation as well.

Add a tutorial and some explanations

Newcomers are somewhat destabilised and do not understand what the project is about. Add some tooltips and explanations on the homepage.

Multiple contact emails

Add the ability to have multiple emails of contact.

Need to add a number rounding function

Computations often create very small numbers (e-14 range). There should be some rounding.

Notification of the creation of the project

When a project is newly created, the creator user can define a list of emails that will be notified that the project have been created. This page can be easily skipped.

Multiple projects

It is possible to create multiple projects with a password.

Change edit / delete links to icons

Replace the textual links by icons

Add information about the code, and link easily to a demo

Review the existing android and iOS applications

Steal good ideas and kick bad ones. All the applications that are somehow related to this one should be reviewed.
I've started a wiki page for this: https://github.com/spiral-project/ihatemoney/wiki/Comparison-of-android-apps

Add the ability to reduce the number of transfers to solve the balance

@feth worked and published his code here: https://github.com/feth/peinard/

There is still a need to package it and for us to use decimals but that's basically it :)

Delete a user causes HTTP Error 500

Edit: I just realized it might be somehow related to #21?

One of my friend at work tried to crash things (several good beta testers in da place BTW) and inserted some shit into the demo project, see http://ihatemoney.notmyidea.org/demo/.

I tried to delete the entry and found this bug. We can't delete a member, it causes HTTP Error 500. Any idea?

User shouldn't be able to add negative bills

One of my co-workers noticed that there was no validation preventing negative bills.

Yes, it's a silly idea to insert a negative bill but still, do we ignore it and let the user do what he wants, or do we prevent wrong behaviors like this one?

CSS footer is not done right.

@arnaudbos said: "The #footer element has absolute positioning, however the PC I'm testing with Chrome 13 has a very small screen (11"), so the bottom of the screen coincides with an element of the form".

Having an alternate stylesheet for mobile would probably solve this.

Number format

Hi there,

Number format for the bill list looks "wrong" to me. It's like "15.0" or "45.1". I think it should be "15.00" or "45.10" by default. Amounts should have 2 decimals digits, IMHO.

Who should pay ?

Could it be interesting for a project to indicate who should pay the next time? (the person with the lower balance), or is it obvious regarding the balance itself?

Keep the last payer selection

When adding a lot of bills, it is boring to click each time in the list for the payer.

I propose to keep the last selected payer (in the session for example) and select it by default in the add list.

Balance display

Display the balance of the debts of each user

Add a way to change project name, password and contact email

Bug in the user adding

When you try to add a new user in a project, if the user name is already used in another project, this is not possible. Fix this!

Validating the Authentication form without identifier causes 400 Bad Request

In the home page (home.html) as well as the authentication page (authenticate.html).

The validation of the authentication form ("Log to an existing project..." in home)
returns HTTP Error 400 "Bad Request" if no project identifier is given.

Replace select multiple for persons by a list of checkboxes.

Different users per project

Management of users

Support adding / removing users to a project.

Users are not really removed until they don't have any event bound to them.

Adding a disabled user should enable it

If I de-activate an user and try to add him again, I'll get an error. Different things:

• The system should find him and reactivate him.
• The balance should make him appear, in grey, even if the user is deactivated
• Error messages should be put in flash messages, not in for messages in a different page as it is done currently.

Do not redirect users to the creation form when they are trying to log in

Members view

The members view displays all of the project's members, even the desactivated ones.
It is then possible to manage members (edit, add, delete).