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- With regards to Cash spending, doesn’t always use cash, but when doing so takes out a specific amount and keep track of how long it takes me him to spend it.
- Keeps track of spending using banking websites.
- 22 y/o male, NYU Student** Keeps track to prevent Credit Card Fraud, not for Analysis or Budgeting
- Would want application to provide data in the form of excel sheets, for use in other personal finance tools
- Would use application if it integrated well with other available tools
- 22 y/o female, Wellesley Student** Keeps track of both card and cash spending
- Tracks them on Excel sheets
- Categorizes her spending by type (food, rent, school, etc), store name, and price
- Attempts to do it weekly, but ends up being every other week when the pile of receipts become out of hand
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- Data available in standard format (e.g. Excel) for importing into other tools, such that the user is not forced to immediately abandon his existing workflow to use our tool.
- Low-friction method for scanning and tracking expenses, in order to encourage maximum compliance and thus accuracy.
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- The app will alert the user when the data has been securely placed in the user’s dropbox, such that he knows when the process has been completed and it is safe to discard the physical receipt. Once in the dropbox, the data is securely backed up and version-ed, making data-loss extremely unlikely.
Task Analysis
These The following are the basic functions that the application will perform.
Track - Photo taking
Our app will allow a user to easily photograph and store digital copies of their physical receipts, thus freeing them from having to physically manage them.
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- GPS tracking of expenditures by geographic location** Displaying on Google Maps how much the user has spent
- Time** Graph of how much on average the user spends during the day