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💰 Personal Finance Tracker

A simple and elegant Django-based application for tracking your personal income and expenses. Easily manage your financial data, categorize transactions, and analyze trends through a user-friendly dashboard.


✨ Features

  • 🔐 Email-based user authentication
  • 💼 Manage multiple transaction accounts (e.g., bank, cash, digital wallet)
  • 🗂️ Create custom categories for income and expenses
  • ➕ Add income and expense transactions with details
  • 📊 View a monthly dashboard with basic analytics
  • 📁 Export filtered transactions to CSV

⚙️ Requirements


🚀 Getting Started

  1. Clone the repository and create a virtual environment:

    git clone https://github.com/eddipa/pft.git
    cd pft
    python -m venv venv
    source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
  2. Install the dependencies:

    pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Configure environment variables:

    cp .env.example .env
    # Then edit .env to add your local config (e.g., secret key, debug, db settings)
  4. Apply migrations and create a superuser:

    python manage.py migrate
    python manage.py createsuperuser
  5. Run the development server:

    python manage.py runserver
  6. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser to start tracking your finances!


📁 Project Structure

personal-finance-tracker/
├── pft/             # Django project configuration
├── accounts/        # User authentication app (custom user model)
├── finance/         # Main finance tracking features
├── templates/       # HTML templates
├── static/          # Static assets (CSS, JS, icons)
└── manage.py

🧪 Running Tests

To run the test suite:

python manage.py test

📌 Notes

  • Designed for local use and experimentation.
  • Can be extended with bank API integrations, budgeting tools, or investment tracking.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

© 2024 Masoud Koochak. You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software under the terms of the MIT license.


🙌 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you’d like to change.

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Track your income and expenses with ease. A clean, customizable Django app for managing personal finances, complete with accounts, categories, dashboards, and CSV export.

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