Studio Ledger
A private budgeting app built around how an artist gets paid for commissions.
The problem
A friend of mine makes art on the side and takes commissions. She wanted to keep track of her finances, and she was doing it in her notes app.
The hard part was her commissions. Each one has its own status, and each one is also part of her budget. Notes could not hold both at once.
What I built
Studio Ledger keeps accounts, commissions, bills, goals and debts in one place.
When a payment comes in, it suggests where the money should go: tax first, then bills, then debts and goals, with a reason for each suggestion. It can only read. It cannot move money.
It is made to run on your own computer or a small server of your own, so no outside company holds the data.
The result
She uses it every other day. Commissions and budget now live in the same place.
What is inside
- Imports from payment services
- Rules that sort transactions automatically
- Budgets, a debt planner and a tax reserve
- A three-month forecast
- Excel export and encrypted backups
- A login with two-step verification
What this could save your team
If your money tracking lives in notes, or in a spreadsheet that only one person understands, a small app shaped around your own way of working removes the copying and the guessing.
