Our roadmap

We have ambitious plans for 2020 and beyond, our roadmap details some of the more significant updates we have planned for the Costs to Expect App and API.

Our roadmap will be updated regularly; it is accurate as of the 16th March 2020.

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Short term

When we say short term, we are talking about 2020; our long term road map covers the end of 2020 and beyond.

The Private alpha

The private alpha was released on the 30th January 2020. The audience for the alpha is Mrs Costs to Expect; the alpha is an extensive update to a private app that we have been using for the last 18 months.

We expect the private alpha to last several months; we may open it up to additional users.

On release we expect the core features to be as below;

• Overview dashboard showing all resource types.
• A resource type dashboard.
• A resource dashboard.
• Multiple item type support, allocated expenses, simple expenses and simple items.
• Category and subcategory management.
• Resource type management.
• Resource management.
• Expense/Item management.
• Privacy and visibility controls via permitted user and private/public management.

The Public alpha

We are working towards a public alpha, we are not sure when we will be ready, if you are interested in being included in the public alpha, please reach out via Twitter/email.

The public alpha resolves around development of our budgeting and forecasting tools. To add support for budgeting and forecasting we will need to extend the API and the App.

Required API development

• We need to add support for the forecasting expense item types.
• We need to add support for partial expense/item transfers.
• We need to add a meta route for resource types to enable personalisation within the app.
• We need to extend the permitted user system.
• We need to develop helper routes to allow improved UX within the app, for example, autocomplete.
• We want to allow public resource types to be excluded from requests.
• We need to add support for multiple currencies.
• We need to work towards localising the app.
• We need to add extended filtering options for collections.

Required App development

• We need to develop the forecasting system; in addition to tracking expenses, the app will provide the ability to create forecasts and budgets.
• We need to add personalisation options; users need to be able to tailor their resource types to their specific needs.
• We want to add additional charting and data tables.

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Long term

Our short term roadmap covers 2020; our intention is the public beta will be ready before the end of the year. Once the beta is live we can concentrate on our long term goals..

Below are some highlights for the Costs to Expect API and the App;

The API

• The expense data type needs to be configurable and not limited to the item types we support.
• We want to work towards adding support for "inflation-adjusted" summaries.
• We want to add support for expense media.

The App

• We want to extend the budgeting and forecasting system dramatically. We will include support for multiple account types, additional options for reoccurring expenses and other tools to make the system more suitable to Businesses.
• We want to add subscription options to allow us to provide more features to our heaviest users.
• We want to increase personalisation, including white-label versions of the App.

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