React-powered bookkeeping, invoicing, and budget management. Track expenses, clients, vendors, accounts, and invoices from a unified dashboard.

Mustafa Kamal hossain

<p><strong>Manfi Expense Tracker</strong> is a next-generation business management and single-entry bookkeeping platform designed for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), freelancers, and agencies. Powered by a modern, high-performance <strong>React dashboard</strong>, it streamlines your daily cash tracking, client/vendor management, and professional PDF invoicing workflows.</p>
<p>Whether you are tracking daily operational expenses, managing multiple bank and mobile financial accounts (like bKash), or generating fully-customized invoices for your clients, Manfi Expense Tracker provides a secure, intuitive, and extremely fast visual interface.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Interactive React Dashboard</strong>: A sleek, fluid single-page app interface for instant entry and review.</li>
<li><strong>Professional Invoice Manager</strong>: Generate elegant BDT/USD invoices with customizable daily budget rates, exchange rates, discounts, and tax (VAT/GST) computations.</li>
<li><strong>Instant PDF & Public Sharing</strong>: Save invoices locally as beautiful PDF files (using Dompdf) or share public, non-cached payment links.</li>
<li><strong>Unified Financial Accounts</strong>: Link and track balances across multiple bank accounts and mobile wallets.</li>
<li><strong>Client & Vendor Directories</strong>: Fully-integrated customer and vendor databases to quickly link transactions and manage contact information.</li>
<li><strong>Hierarchical Expense Categories</strong>: Organize expenses into nested parent-child categories with an interactive drill-down explorer.</li>
<li><strong>Smart Budget Management</strong>: Set weekly, monthly, and yearly budget limits per user, and receive automatic admin notifications and email alerts when limits are exceeded.</li>
<li><strong>High-Fidelity Exports</strong>: One-click full report exports in CSV, Excel (.xlsx), and PDF formats.</li>
<li><strong>Role-Based Access (RBAC)</strong>: Fine-grained user capabilities ensuring team members, managers, and administrators only access allowed sections.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Blocks & Elementor Widgets</strong>: Easily display budgets, dashboard, or expense entries on the front-end with native Gutenberg blocks and custom Elementor widgets.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Road Map: Future Enterprise Scope</h3>
<p>To support growing businesses, <strong>Manfi Expense Tracker</strong> is actively developing features to evolve into a full-scale, intelligent ERP and bookkeeping system inspired by QuickBooks and Tally Prime:</p>
<h4>Phase 1: GST/VAT Tax Compliance & Payment Gateways</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automated Input Tax Credit (ITC) vs. Output Tax Liability trackers.</li>
<li>Net tax liability calculation dashboards for easy monthly returns.</li>
<li>Direct checkout links (SSLCommerz, Stripe, PayPal) integrated on public invoice pages.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Phase 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping & Daybook</h4>
<ul>
<li>True <strong>Chart of Accounts (CoA)</strong> with nested asset, liability, equity, income, and expense ledger groups.</li>
<li><strong>Journal Vouchers (JV)</strong> screen with automatic debit/credit balance validation.</li>
<li>Classic accounting outputs: Trial Balance, real-time Profit & Loss statement, and a Balance Sheet.</li>
<li>Dynamic <strong>Daybook</strong> to audit chronological daily receipts and vouchers.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Phase 3: Next-Gen Agentic AI ERP Integration</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Intelligent Receipt OCR (LLM + Vision)</strong>: Upload a receipt photo, and our background AI Agent automatically parses Vendor, Date, Amount, Currency, Taxes, and logs the expense under the correct category.</li>
<li><strong>Conversational Accounting Assistant</strong>: A natural language dashboard to query your financial database (e.g., <em>“How much did we spend on social media ads compared to last quarter?”</em>).</li>
<li><strong>Automated Anomaly & Fraud Detection</strong>: Background checks to flag SaaS double-billings or abnormal spending.</li>
<li><strong>Smart Accounts Receivable Agents</strong>: AI payments follow-up draft generation based on client settlement behaviors.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Phase 4: Stock, Inventory & Payroll</h4>
<ul>
<li>Physical inventory tracking with Unit of Measure (UoM), cost rates, and automated FIFO or weighted average stock valuation.</li>
<li>Full-scale payroll with employee payslips, salary structures, and reimbursement claim approval portals.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Source Code & Build Process</h3>
<p>This plugin uses a modern React interface. The minified production file in <code>assets/js/admin.js</code> is generated from the human-readable source files included in this plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li>Source Entry File: <code>assets/js/app.js</code></li>
<li>React Components: <code>assets/js/components/</code></li>
<li>Webpack Configuration: <code>webpack.config.js</code></li>
<li>Package Configuration: <code>package.json</code></li>
</ul>
<p>To regenerate the compiled JavaScript bundle, follow these steps:<br />
1. Ensure you have Node.js and npm installed on your system.<br />
2. Open your terminal and navigate to the plugin root directory.<br />
3. Install the dependencies by running:<br />
       npm install<br />
4. Compile the production bundle by running:<br />
       npm run build</p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>[manfiet_expense_tracker]</code> – Render the unified expense tracker dashboard on a front-end page or post.</li>
</ul>


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