iPlanShopping App: categorize ideas... track retailers, receivers, budget, cost... run reports for daily, weekly, and monthly shopping lists, and budgeting.
PROBLEM:
If you:
- have shopping lists written on slips of paper
- tend to impulse buy items
- fall behind in holiday, necessity, and school shopping
- overspend and fall into debt
- forget to teach children home economics
This app may be beneficial.
SOLUTION:
We wanted to help parents and teachers with planning purchases as well as budgeting.
NOTE: The solution is based upon the same user flow as iPlanLessons to help ease usability
CUSTOM DATABASE:
The app has a database where ideas are associated to custom categories, retailers, and receivers. Reports can be run and emailed. Also each report calculates the overall cost of items purchased as compared to your budget.
FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, BENEFITS:
Some high-level features include but are not limited to:
Ideas Definition
Category Definition
Receiver Definition
Retailer Definition
Reports Definition
Instructions
Ideas include:
Target Purchase Date
Related Category
Related Receiver
Related Retailer
notes
Priority: Must-have, Nice-to-have
Status: Purchased, Not-Purchased
Ideas Search, Filter, Email, and iCal Features:
Calendar is included
Ideas are color coded with status: Purchased (Green); Not-Purchased (Blue)
Ideas can be flagged with a status flag
Search is available across Ideas names
Filter searches by priority and status
Ideas can be selectively pushed to iCal with target date, assignments, and notes.
Ideas can be emailed for record keeping, printing, or sent to students as an assignment.
Filtered views of Ideas are available for each Category, Receiver, and Retailer
items can also be moved to another date
Reporting Features:
Daily, weekly, and monthly (via 4 weeks) reports can be generated anytime, giving you the flexibility to plan ahead and change the purchasing based upon budgets.
The By Day and By Week reports show all ideas or a filtered set of Ideas by a selected Category.
Reports can be emailed for record keeping.
Updates are free.
Introductory pricing between now and end of 2011.