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Welcome to EK Budget Planner
A comprehensive cloud-based budgeting application. Your data is securely stored on our servers and automatically synced whenever you make changes. All features are available anytime, anywhere.
Getting Started
- Create Account - Sign up with your email and password to get started.
- Setup - Configure global settings, carry-over rules, manage master groups & categories, define fee presets, budgets, and financial goals.
- Accounts - Add/edit accounts, enable automatic fee rules, and view balances plus debt snapshots.
- Envelopes - Create envelope budgets, track remaining amounts, and reallocate funds between envelopes.
- Transactions - Capture income, expenses, savings, link to accounts/envelopes, and optionally ignore auto fees per entry.
- Bills & Due Dates - Track bills, set payment schedules, and get reminders for upcoming payments.
- Monthly Dashboard - Review KPIs, zero-based summaries, carry-over tables, top categories, envelopes, and monthly notes.
- Annual Dashboard - Inspect yearly trends for income, expenses, and savings, including rate metrics.
- Main Dashboard - Slice data by year/group/category/account for custom trend & breakdown views.
Premium Features
Upgrade your account to unlock advanced budgeting capabilities.
- Bills & Due Dates - Track bills, set payment schedules, and get reminders for upcoming payments.
- Unlimited Budgets - Create as many budgets as you need (free accounts limited to 3).
- Unlimited Transactions - Record unlimited transactions (free accounts limited to 5).
- Unlimited Accounts - Manage multiple bank accounts and financial institutions (free accounts limited to 1).
- Advanced Dashboards - Access Monthly and Annual dashboards with comprehensive analytics (free accounts have access to Main Dashboard only).
- Priority Support - Get dedicated customer support for premium subscribers.
Payment Options
- M-Pesa - Instant mobile money payments for seamless transactions.
- Stripe - Secure credit/debit card payments with international support.
- Flexible Plans - Choose monthly, quarterly, or annual subscription plans.
Data Security & Privacy
- Your data is securely stored on encrypted servers.
- All connections use HTTPS for end-to-end security.
- Your account is protected with secure authentication and JWT tokens.
- You maintain full control of your data - logout and your session is cleared.
- Use Export Data to download a backup JSON file of your budget data.
- Use Import Data to restore from a previously exported file.
Key Features Overview
Budget Management
Create detailed budgets with zero-based budgeting principles. Track income, expenses, and savings with precision.
Advanced Analytics
Analyze spending patterns with monthly and annual dashboards. View trends across categories, accounts, and time periods.
Multiple Accounts
Manage multiple bank accounts and financial institutions in one place with balance tracking and fee automation.
Envelope Budgeting
Use envelope budgets to allocate specific amounts for different purposes and reallocate funds as needed.
Transaction Management
Log all financial activities with flexible categorization, envelope linking, and fee handling options.
Mobile Payment Integration
Pay for subscriptions securely using M-Pesa or Stripe with instant confirmation and receipt tracking.
Tips for Success
- Start with Setup to configure your budget year, currency, and carry-over preferences.
- Create your accounts and envelope budgets before entering transactions.
- Review the Monthly Dashboard regularly to stay on track with your financial goals.
- Use categories and groups to organize your spending for better insights.
- Take advantage of the zero-based budgeting approach to ensure every dollar is allocated.
- Export your data regularly for backup and archival purposes.
- Check the Bills section (premium) to stay on top of upcoming payments.
Need Help?
For detailed information about specific features, navigate to the relevant section using the menu on the left. Each section includes helpful forms, tables, and dashboards to guide you through the process.
Questions about your subscription? Visit the Subscription section to manage your account, view billing history, and access customer support resources.
Setup & Lookups
Define your global settings, groups and categories, and budgets.
Experience Mode
Simple mode keeps essentials visible. Advanced mode unlocks full controls.
Budget Setup Basics
Set your base setup first: year, currency, and month. Choose Calendar month for 1st-to-last-day budgeting, or Pay cycle if your budget should run from one payday to the next. In Calendar mode, payday is fixed to day 1 automatically.
💡 Tip: To start a new budget month, change the Budget Start Month (and Budget Year / Your Payday if needed) below, then click Save Settings. The new budget period will be created automatically, and all tabs will switch to it so you can set up budgets, envelopes, and transactions for the new month.
Carry-over Settings
Carry leftover & overspend: best if you want envelope balances to behave like running balances month to month.
Carry leftover only: keeps savings progress but resets overspending pressure each month.
No carry-over: start clean every month. Good for strict monthly resets.
Carry leftover only: keeps savings progress but resets overspending pressure each month.
No carry-over: start clean every month. Good for strict monthly resets.
Envelopes carry unused balances (and optionally overspend) forward to the next month for expense & savings groups.
Currencies & Exchange Rates
Enter rates against your base currency. Example: if base is KES and market rate is 1 USD = 128.85 KES, enter USD = 128.85. Do not enter the inverse (1 KES = 0.007761 USD).
Base/reporting currency: . Rates are entered relative to the base (base is always 1).
Select or enter a currency, then retrieve the latest rate or save a manual override.
Base currency: —
| Currency | Rate vs Base | Status | Source / Updated |
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Categories
Pick a Group first, then add categories under that group. Example: Group Food can have categories like Groceries, Dining Out, and Snacks.
Fee Presets / Charge Profiles
You can skip this section unless you need a fee profile that does not already exist. It will not hurt performance if you leave it unchanged. Example use: create a custom mobile-money fee table for a provider not listed yet.
Define reusable tariff tables for common providers and apply them to accounts with one click.
Tip: You can use the app without changing anything here. Only edit these presets if you want to add a provider that’s missing or update the preset fees with newer data.
| Name | Account Types | Ranges |
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Zero-Based Budget Summary
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Planned Outflow
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Planned income and outflow are taken from your Budget Matrix by group type.
Budget Matrix (by Group & Month)
This is where planned amounts are set per month, group, and category. Most other planning screens read from here. Add or update rows here first, then review totals in Zero-Based Budget Summary.
| Year | Month | Group | Category | Budget |
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Budget Templates
Templates save a month’s budget structure so you can reuse it quickly. Use Load from Month to copy existing rows, save as a template, then apply it in future months to avoid rebuilding budgets manually.
Save and reuse monthly budgets as templates.
Existing Templates
| Name | Description | Entries | Created | Updated |
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Financial Goals
Create goals like savings targets or debt payoff targets. Linking group/category is optional but useful for automatic progress updates based on related transactions.
Define savings or payoff goals and link them to groups and categories so progress updates automatically from your transactions.
| Goal | Target | Group | Category | Progress | % Complete |
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Accounts
Manage the accounts you spend from or save into.
Add / Edit Account
Add each wallet, bank, card, or cash account you use. Keep balance and currency accurate. Use auto-fees only if that account actually charges predictable transaction fees.
Total Current Balance
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Sum of all account balances.
Accounts Overview
| Name | Type | Balance | Last Updated | Notes |
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Swipe sideways to see more
Envelope Snapshot
| Envelope | Budget | Spent | Remaining |
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Swipe sideways to see more
Zero-Based Budget Summary
Planned Income
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Planned Outflow
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Planned income and outflow are taken from your Budget Matrix by group type.
Balance Distribution
Assets are shown in the donut. Liabilities are tracked separately for a clearer net worth view.
Assets
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Liabilities
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Net Worth
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Net Movement by Account (This Year)
Debts Snapshot
Accounts with negative balances or type "Credit Card" are treated as debts.
Monthly Review Notes
Capture reflections, anomalies, and decisions for the selected month.
Budgets
Allocate monthly budgets into envelopes and move planned money without touching account balances.
Add / Edit Envelope
Envelopes are mainly managed here (activate, edit, carry-over choice), but budget amounts come from the Budget Matrix. You usually do not need to manually type envelope budgets in this section.
Browse Previous Months
Select a past month to view its budget:
| Name | Budget | Spent | Realloc In | Realloc Out | Remaining |
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Swipe sideways to see more
Envelope Reallocation
Move funds between envelopes. These entries only adjust envelope balances, not actual cash.
Recent Reallocations
| Date | From | To | Amount | Note | Actions |
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Automatic Envelope Funding Suggestions
Based on this month's envelope balances, these suggestions move funds from envelopes with surplus to envelopes that are overspent.
| From Envelope | To Envelope | Amount | Reason | Apply? |
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| Click "Generate Suggestions" to see proposals for the selected year and month. | ||||
Transactions
Capture income, expenses, and savings.
Statement Import (MPesa & Banks)
Import MPesa or bank statements from CSV, XLS, or PDF and turn them into transactions.
PNG / JPG — statement or M-PESA messages screenshot
Preview
Select rows to import. Duplicate rows are disabled automatically. Detected format is shown per row.
| Date | Description | Source | Amount | Balance | Status |
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Import Transactions
Paste transaction messages, bank alerts, or upload statement files and screenshots from one place.
Example transaction messages you can paste
ABC12XY34Z Confirmed. Ksh50.00 sent to JOHN DOE on 14/12/25 at 10:32 AM.
Your account 1234****789 has been debited with KES 450.00 on 18/03/2026 at 07:45.
Mpesa Till transfer of KES 3,667 to 12345 Store Name on 21/03/26 at 4:10 PM.
Preview Parsed Transactions
Select rows to import. Rows with missing dates must have a date set before import.
| Date | Description | Type | Amount | Source | Envelope | Status |
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Preview Parsed Statement Rows
Select rows to import. Duplicate rows are disabled automatically. Detected format is shown per row.
| Date | Description | Source | Amount | Balance | Envelope | Status |
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Transfer Between Accounts
Add Transaction
Record day-to-day money movements here. Choose type, group/category, and account correctly so reports and goals stay accurate. For moving money between accounts, use Transfer mode instead of a normal transaction.
Transactions List
Filters
| Date | Desc | Type | Group | Category | Envelope | Account | Amount | Details |
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Monthly Review Notes
Capture reflections, anomalies, and decisions for the selected month.
Bills & Due Dates
Manage recurring and one-off bills, track due dates, and mark bills as paid.
Add / Edit Bill
Use this for recurring obligations (rent, internet, loan, subscriptions) and one-off bills. Set frequency and due-day carefully so reminders and upcoming bills are accurate.
Bills List
| Name | Next Due | Frequency | Amount | Account | Group/Category | Status |
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Recent Bill Payments
| Date | Bill | Amount | Account | Linked Tx | Notes |
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Monthly Dashboard
KPIs and breakdown for a selected month.
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Budget Warnings
Expense Breakdown
Tap a slice to highlight · showing top categories
Actual vs Budget by Group
| Group | Actual | Budget | Variance | % of Budget |
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Top Expense Categories
Carry-over Envelopes (by Group)
| Group | Opening Balance | This Month Budget | Available | Actual Spend | Closing Balance |
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Bills Summary
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Paid This Month
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Overdue
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Upcoming (7d)
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Export Reports
Download your financial data as CSV or PDF.
CSV Exports
PDF Reports
Zero-Based Budget Summary
Planned Income
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Planned Outflow
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Unassigned
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Status
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Planned income and outflow are taken from your Budget Matrix by group type.
Monthly Insights Summary
Get an automatic written summary of this month's budget performance.
Click "Generate Summary" to see an automatic overview for the selected month.
Monthly Review Notes
Capture reflections, anomalies, and decisions for the selected month.
Annual Dashboard
Income, expenses, and savings trends over the year.
Flexible annual drilldown
Slice annual secondary charts with any date window while keeping the year snapshot above intact.
Total Income (Year)
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Total Expenses (Year)
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Net (Year)
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Savings Rate
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Monthly Income vs Expenses
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Main Dashboard
Filter by year, group, category, and account.
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Trend Over Year
Breakdown by Category/Account
Subscription Management
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