My Family Allowance - a Simple Allowance Tracking Site

The useful part

As you can probably tell, I've been on a bit of a builder kick the last few weeks. Today's "release" (it's been live for a few days already) is a tool to help fix a manual process we had in our family. When a kid would ask for something, we'd look to see when we last added allowance, multiply the number of weeks by their rate, add it, and then add another row to reduce by the amount they were spending.

How it works

• The "family" URL lets kids see their totals, and even click in to see a transaction history if they want to remember what they spent money on.
• A simple formula on the right hand side would give a running total so they could see what their current balance was.
• I decided to take this manual process and turn it into a proper application.
• They then have a simple admin to add, edit, and delete kids while setting their weekly allowance.
• A great idea for this would be the same password used for wifi in the house.

What to take from it

The stack is Astro, hosted on Netlify, with their Netlify DB as the storage system.

Details worth keeping

The parent signs up with their Google account. The parent can then add or remove funds when necessary. Every Sunday, automatically, allowance is paid.