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Ledger

When people track loans, shared costs and receipts across messages, bank notes and memory, the risk is a balance no one can explain. Flat18 shaped Ledger around focused records, evidence and sharing controls so people can settle money with less doubt.

5+Record types

Loans, trips, households, projects, shared costs, and everyday balances.

OCRReceipt assistance

Entry support for amount, date, vendor, and line-item context when receipts matter.

Read-onlyShareable proof

Public links keep the useful record visible while protecting private notes.

Development journey

From messy shared expenses to a product built around trust.

Flat18 approached Ledger as a trust and clarity problem. The interface needed to make informal money records easier to create, easier to explain, and safer to share without dragging users into full accounting software.

01 / Trust gap

Informal money records were too fragile for the conversations they supported.

Loans, shared costs, project spending, household bills, and trip budgets often live across screenshots, bank app notes, receipts, chat history, and memory. That is fine until someone needs proof, context, or a calm answer.

02 / Product shape

We designed ledgers around real-life money situations, not accounting jargon.

Each ledger became a focused record with the right labels, fast entry, receipts, notes, categories, balance state, and reports. The app had to feel quicker than a spreadsheet and less dramatic than a group chat argument about who paid for petrol.

03 / Confidence layer

The final workflow makes private context and public proof coexist.

Ledger separates private notes from shareable facts, preserves edit context, supports filtered reports, and lets users publish a read-only view when the record needs to be trusted without exposing everything.

Product surfaces

Designed around the moments where informal records usually fail.

Ledger is not a mini accounting suite wearing a fake moustache. Each surface supports a real trust moment: creating the record, proving what happened, summarising the balance, and sharing the version other people need to see.

Detail workflow

Fast entries when speed matters, richer context when trust matters.

The detail view keeps the balance, entries, private context, categories, receipt evidence, and correction history close to the record instead of scattering it across tools.

Reports

Answer practical questions quickly.

Users can filter by date, category, and search text without pretending they are running an accounts department.

Public proof

Share the useful record, not the private mess.

Read-only links let a ledger become evidence while keeping sensitive notes and edit context under control.

Brand assets

Share-ready art and compact iconography.

Ledger now has a dedicated share image and app icon, so the product stays readable on link previews, work tiles and smaller app surfaces.

Ledger Open Graph share image
Open Graph

Share image

Use this for link previews, social posts and project cards where the full layout needs to stay legible.

Ledger app icon
Icon

App icon

Use this in tight spaces such as featured work tiles and app-style surfaces where the mark needs to stay clear.

Product landing page
Ledger list
Ledger detail workflow
Filtered reports
Controlled sharing
Public read-only view

Delivered for confidence

Ledger keeps balances, entries, receipt evidence, private notes, reports, and public sharing controls in one understandable workflow.

LiveDiagnosis: informal money records break trustSolution: purpose-built ledgersOutcome: clear shared balances

Ledger turns sensitive, everyday money situations into clear records. Flat18 handled the product framing, interface design, ledger workflows, receipt-assisted entry model, reporting surfaces, privacy boundaries, and shareable public views.

Problem found

Informal balances get split across messages, banking apps, receipts, screenshots, and memory, which makes sensitive money conversations harder.

Flat18 diagnosis

Users needed a shared factual record, not accounting concepts. The product had to feel as quick as a note and more trustworthy than a spreadsheet.

Solution shipped

We designed ledgers with type-specific labels, fast entries, optional receipt detail, preserved edit context, useful reports, and read-only sharing.

Customer value

People can explain what happened, when it happened, what evidence supports it, and what the balance is now without exposing private notes.

What Flat18 handled

  • Translated everyday money tracking into plain-language workflows for real-life situations
  • Kept quick entry simple while allowing detail when receipts or context matter
  • Designed trust features around private notes, correction context, and read-only sharing
  • Built reporting around practical questions instead of finance jargon

Key capabilities

  • Purpose-built ledgers for loans, budgets, trips, households, and project spending
  • Fast entry with amount, direction, date, description, vendor, and category
  • Receipt upload with OCR-assisted amount, date, vendor, and line-item suggestions
  • Reports filtered by date, category, and search text
  • Read-only public links with private-note controls

Need a trust-sensitive workflow made clear?

Flat18 can turn messy records, shared decisions, and sensitive operational workflows into polished products people can inspect, explain, and trust.

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