What is SavingStat

What it is

SavingStat keeps a record of what you spend and what you earn. It is built for money that more than one person is involved in: you connect to the people you share costs with, and a budget you share adds up everyone's spending in it alongside your own share, converted into the currency you picked.

The record gets built by importing, not by typing. Most rows arrive from a bank statement file or a photo of a receipt, landing on the wallet you scoped the import to with a category and a budget already filled in. Your job is to check them, not to enter them.

How your data gets in

There are three ways in, and the first is the one you will use most.

• A bank statement. Export a CSV or PDF from your bank, choose the wallet it belongs to, and upload it. Every row comes back as a draft with a category, a budget and an income source suggested, and anything that resembles a transaction you already have is flagged as a possible duplicate.
• A receipt photo. A JPEG, PNG or WebP image goes through the same pipeline and produces drafts the same way.
• The add-transaction form. Enter an expense, an income or a transfer yourself. This is the one you want for cash that no statement will ever show.

Anything that comes out of a file arrives as a draft. Drafts stay out of your transaction list and leave your wallet balances untouched until you publish them, so a messy import costs you nothing but the time to tidy it.

What it does not do

SavingStat writes down what already happened. It does not ask you to name a number in advance and then measure you against it.

A budget has a name, an owner, the members you invite, the categories its spending has turned out to use, and a total for the current month. There is no field on it for a number it is meant to stay under, so nothing in the app holds a transaction back, refuses it, or treats it as a problem because of what a budget already contains.

It also does not connect to your bank. There is no account to link and no banking credentials to hand over. You export the statement from your bank yourself and upload the file, which is why the import step is a file picker rather than a login.

Where to go next

Your first week lays out the order to do things in: the setup chat, one month of imported statements, then the people you share money with.

After that, the concepts explain the pieces everything else is built from: transactions, wallets, categories, budgets, income sources, events, currencies and imports. Read transactions first, since every figure in the app is assembled from those, then wallets and budgets. The rest is easier once those three are clear.