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9. Dashboard

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9. Dashboard

After sign-in your home screen is the Dashboard: a consolidated view of your workspace's balances, spending split, budgets, savings goals and most recent transactions.

Configurable stat cards

The dashboard shows two configurable cards (Balance and Expenses). Each card is independent and fully personalisable — settings are saved per workspace and synced to your account so they follow you across devices.

Available metrics per card

Balance card:

Metric Description
Expected month-end balance Opening balance + all transactions including pending recurring entries
Daily balance Realised (executed) balance as of today
Scheduled transactions (net) Net impact of still-due recurring entries for this month
Same day last month Difference vs the same day of the previous month — direction arrow (↑/↓) shown next to the label

Expenses card:

Metric Description
Total expenses (with scheduled) Realised + remaining recurring expenses
Executed expenses Realised (booked) expenses only
Same day last month Difference vs the same day of the previous month — direction arrow (↑/↓) shown next to the label

Personalising a card

Click the sliders icon (⚙) on any card to open its settings panel:

  • Highlighted metric — shown large at the top of the card.
  • Visible metrics — tick up to 3 metrics; unchecked ones are hidden.
  • Text colour — choose separate colours for light and dark themes.

Settings are saved automatically when you close the panel.

The card title always reflects the currently highlighted metric.

The "Same day last month" metric shows an up (↑) or down (↓) arrow depending on whether the value increased or decreased compared to the previous month.

Monthly opening-balance confirmation

On the first day of the current month, an orange Confirm opening balance button appears in the header (only on the primary account). Clicking it:

  • shows the expected opening balance (initial balance + all transactions recorded so far),
  • asks for the actual bank balance in an input field,
  • if the two differ, automatically records a corrective Income/Expense transaction (in a hidden system category: __opening_adjustment_income / __opening_adjustment_expense) and marks the month as confirmed.

This way you never have to tweak the account balance by hand: the real value from the bank lands in the transaction history and the calculated balances re-align themselves.

Chart range selector

Inside the chart panel a range switch is available:

Range What it shows
Week A rolling 7-day window ending today, daily resolution.
Month The selected calendar month, daily breakdown.
Year The selected calendar year, monthly breakdown.
3 years The last 3 years, monthly breakdown.

The Week range is independent of the month picker: it always shows the 7 days ending today, so you can quickly inspect very recent activity.

Mobile behaviour

On small screens (≈ below 768 px) the chart panel automatically slides directly under the stat card you tapped — no scrolling needed to see the related data. The other cards stay underneath in their normal order.

Recent transactions

A short list at the bottom of the dashboard shows the most recent items. Tapping a row opens the transaction detail; the See all link opens the full Transactions page.

Budget alerts

If a budget is set on a category and actual spending crosses 80 %, the related card switches to a warning shade (yellow / red).

Savings goals card

Under the budgets card, the dashboard now shows a Savings goals card.

  • It displays active goals count and a short goal list.
  • Each row shows progress bar, current/target amount and current goal status.
  • The Manage button opens the Goals page directly.

Language and theme switching

The language selector and the theme switcher are in the footer, always visible at the bottom of every page. Your choices are preserved across sign-in and sign-out.

Table of contents
1. Introduction
CaeliBudget is a workspace-based financial management application.
3. Workspaces
A *workspace* is the isolated unit that owns your accounts, categories, transactions and tags. A user can belong to multiple workspaces (e.g. *Household*, *Business*), and every membership is bound to a **role**.
Create or edit a workspace
This page is used to create a new workspace or update the core settings of an existing one.
Workspace onboarding
This page guides you through the first setup steps of a newly created workspace.
Workspace members
This page manages the list of users who can access the workspace and their roles.
9. Dashboard
4. Accounts
An *account* represents a concrete money-holding instrument inside a workspace: bank account, cash, credit card, savings, etc. Every transaction is bound to exactly one account (a transfer touches two — source and destination).
Create or edit an account
This page is used to add a new account or update the settings of an existing one.
5. Categories
Categories let you classify transactions so statistics, budgets, and exports can group them meaningfully.
Create or edit a category
This page is used to create a new category or fine-tune an existing one.
Category statistics
This page shows the detailed activity of a selected category.
4. Transactions
A transaction is the atomic unit of CaeliBudget: every income, expense or transfer is stored as one transaction.
4.1 Create a new transaction
This page is used to quickly and accurately record a new income, expense, or transfer between accounts.
Import transactions from CSV
This page is used for bulk transaction upload from a CSV file.
7. Planned transactions
A *planned transaction* is a template that either automatically generates **real transactions** at a fixed cadence, or pre-generates **planned occurrences** that you confirm before they are booked.
Planned transaction form
This page is used to define regular income, expense, or transfer rules that either generate transactions automatically or create planned occurrences for your review.
8. Budgets
A *budget* defines a cap (or target) for one category over a period of time. CaeliBudget continuously shows where you stand against it.
Budget form
This page is used to create or edit a budget linked to a category.
14. Savings goals
The Savings Goals module helps you separate money reserved for specific targets from day-to-day spending. Each goal is linked to a dedicated virtual account that sits beneath a savings account.
Tag list
This page shows all tags available in the workspace.
Create or edit a tag
This page is used to create a new tag or update an existing one.
Profile page
This page is used to manage your own user details and password.
Accessibility

Adjust display preferences for better readability and usability.

Keyboard shortcuts

A limited desktop-oriented shortcut set. Disabled by default.

Focus a field, then press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + a letter or digit. Press Backspace or Delete to clear the binding.
Active only on desktop or installed desktop PWA environments.
Full accessibility manual