BCHBooks: Building a Better Financial Tool For Bitcoin Cash Users

Help turn a useful Bitcoin Cash application into a more complete financial tool.

What is BCHBooks?

BCHBooks is a financial tracking application I built for people who use Bitcoin Cash and want a simpler way to understand their transaction history.

The idea is simple. You enter a Bitcoin Cash address, and BCHBooks organizes its transaction history into revenue, expenses, and transfers. You can categorize transactions, filter activity by month or quarter, and export financial records to CSV or PDF.

You don't need to create an account, connect a wallet, or provide a seed phrase.

It's a simple tool designed to help people make more sense of their BCH activity.

You can try the current version here:

BCHBooks

Why does Bitcoin Cash need this?

Bitcoin Cash is peer-to-peer electronic cash, but using BCH is not only about sending and receiving payments.

People who earn BCH also need ways to understand their income, organize their spending, and keep track of their financial activity.

Think about freelancers receiving payments in BCH, merchants accepting it from customers, independent builders receiving community support, or people who simply want to understand where their money goes.

They all benefit from having practical financial tools.

BCHBooks is my contribution to that part of the ecosystem.

I want to keep building applications that solve actual problems for people using Bitcoin Cash, rather than creating another project that looks interesting but has little practical use.

The current version is a starting point. There is more work to do, and that is exactly why I am opening this campaign.

What will the funding be used for?

I'm setting a fundraising target of $1,500 in Bitcoin Cash to dedicate more development time to BCHBooks and move it toward a more complete product.

The funding will support the following improvements:

1. A permanent domain

Give BCHBooks its own recognizable domain instead of relying on a Vercel subdomain. This will make the application easier to share and establish a more permanent identity.

1. Optional wallet connectivity

Explore compatible Bitcoin Cash wallet integrations to make accessing transaction information more convenient, while keeping the application read-only and never requesting seed phrases or private keys.

1. Better financial reports

Improve monthly summaries, income and expense analysis, transaction categories, and CSV/PDF exports.

1. A better mobile experience

Make the application easier to use on mobile devices and improve performance when working with larger transaction histories.

1. Privacy and reliability

Improve error handling, testing, data management, and the overall reliability of the application.

1. Continued development

Dedicate more time to implementation, testing, fixing bugs, and responding to feedback from actual BCH users.

The goal is not to add features simply to make the application bigger. It is to make BCHBooks more useful for the people who need it.

Why fund this instead of waiting for another project?

Because useful tools do not build and maintain themselves.

Someone has to spend the time designing them, writing the code, testing them, and improving them when problems appear.

I have already put work into building BCHBooks and making it available for people to use. This campaign is an opportunity for the community to help move that work forward.

I believe Bitcoin Cash benefits when independent builders can develop useful applications without depending entirely on advertising, venture capital, or closed platforms.

Community funding is one way to make that possible.

You are not being asked to fund an idea that exists only on paper. You can visit the current application, test what is already there, and judge the work for yourself.

The budget

The $1,500 target is intended to cover:

• Domain and deployment costs.
• Wallet integration development and testing.
• Better financial reporting and analytics.
• Mobile usability and reliability improvements.
• Privacy and security-related work.
• Dedicated development time.
• Initial hosting, API, and maintenance expenses.

I will prioritize the work according to the available funding, technical requirements, and user feedback.

If the campaign raises less than the target, I will focus on the most valuable improvements that the available funds can support. If it raises more, additional funding can support further development and maintenance.

This is about building something useful

I don't believe every BCH project needs to become a large business to be valuable to the ecosystem.

Sometimes, a small application that solves a real problem is worth building, maintaining, and improving.

BCHBooks is one of those projects I want to keep working on.

My goal is to make it a more dependable tool for people who earn, spend, and manage Bitcoin Cash, while keeping its basic purpose simple and accessible.

If you use BCH, run a business that accepts it, build applications in this ecosystem, or simply believe we need more practical tools, I invite you to try BCHBooks and consider supporting its development.

You can contribute whatever amount makes sense for you. Every contribution helps fund the work needed to improve the application.

And if you cannot contribute financially, testing the application, sharing feedback, reporting bugs, or telling other BCH users about it is also valuable.

Let's keep building useful things with Bitcoin Cash.

Thank you to everyone who supports independent builders and the development of practical tools for this ecosystem.