Vacation Budget Buddy

Track vacation spending and optionally record purchase locations (map spending)

Vacation Budget Buddy will empower you to stay within budget during your trip.

If you are like me, it is too cumbersome to plan a vacation with a smartphone and feel this is better suited for a spreadsheet using a laptop/desktop. What this app aims to solve is the time spent at the end of a day pouring over receipts or mentally keeping track of what's been spent.

How does it work?

🔵 With Vacation Budget Buddy, you enter your arrival and departures dates along with your spending budget (Food/Merchandise/Misc) and it will determine your daily budget

🔵 Throughout your trip, when you make a purchase, open the app and it will take directly to the purchase screen. Enter your purchase price/category, submit, and done.

🔵 The app also has a widget that will show you 1.) how much you spent that day 2.) how much remains for the day and 3.) how much remains for the rest of the vacation

🔵 At the end of your vacation, you can export the trip to a spreadsheet which contain both detail and summary views.

Vacation Budget Buddy includes the following features:

✔️ Quickly enter purchases as they are made (or enter them, at once, at the end of a day)

✔️ Slide out navigation to quickly traverse screens

✔️ Charts and tables to summarize your daily expenses and, additionally, those trips that have passed

✔️ Export a past trip as a spreadsheet to cloud storage (Google Drive/Dropbox/etc..) or email it

✔️ Add the included widget to your home screen to view current budget info (spent today, remaining today, remaining for the trip)

✔️ Tapping the widget or app during your trip will bring you directly to the “purchase” screen (configurable) to make for quick transactions

✔️ Quickly toggle between graph types – bar chart/pie chart

✔️ (optional) Take pictures and associate them with purchases

✔️ (optional) Add a note/merchant name to any purchase

The premium version adds the following additional features:

✔️ Location Aware Purchases - Purchases are tagged with their location such that you can track “where” they were made

✔️ Predictive Purchases – When making a new purchase, previous purchases are searched based on proximity and categories and notes are pre-filled automatically

✔️ Export Trips - trip data is exported as a spreadsheet (charts included)

So whether you are taking your family on a Disney Vacation, off on a business trip, or just traveling during a holiday break - know that Vacation Budget Buddy is here to save you time and keep you on track .