Expense templates for the travellers

[ay-b]

Good day, guys.
Here I come with the POC of the feature I'll be happy to see in the code.
The idea is that travellers are spending money in local currency but charges made from their local bank in another and maybe some conversion fees applied.

I've came with that idea earlier and got an answer to make a template with predefined expense close to conversion rate and use multiplication in the expense text box to get a final expense. That works somewhat ok, but I had to fix the balance drift every now and then which is inconvenient since I'm not sure if I forgot to add some expense or that's just a diff between the template and actual conversion rates.

So now, when LLMs got already somewhat useful, I've used it to implement the feature.

This is a modified template creation widget
Here you have to choose spending currency, spending account and bank conversion comission (optional):

Then you choose the template later when adding an expense:

That's an actual expense adding widget:

And here's the final result:

Since it's an LLM-generated changes I'm not doing the pull request but attaching .patch here for demonstration purposes.
I'm not a programmer of any kind, so I apologize if someone got offended with that post. I've just made a POC of the feature I would like a lot to have implemented.

Dear @mayswind , please, take a look.
And thank you very much again for that beautiful app you brought to us all.

latest-commit.patch

UPD: To run against the existing DB it needs to get updated:

   ALTER TABLE transaction_templates 
   ADD COLUMN source_currency VARCHAR(3),
   ADD COLUMN conversion_commission DECIMAL(5,2) DEFAULT 0;

[mayswind]

You have done a great job, and I think the way you're using ezBookkeeping is one of the better practise in today's LLM-driven world. Users can customize ezBookkeeping through LLMs in very flexible ways.

However, the feature you added isn't suitable for all users and would make ezBookkeeping more bloated. If every user added their own desired options to transaction template, the add template dialog could easily end up with dozens of options, which goes against ezBookkeeping's design goals. For this reason, I'm afraid I can't merge your code.

[ay-b]

Yep, thanks for the clue.
I agree that my user story is somewhat rare thing and shall not interfere with the most common usage scenarios.
So I spent some time on thinking how to make it less intrusive and came up with a change to a process:

I've changed the conversion options location to a dedicated tab

And by default it's off

And may be included in the transaction with activating and choosing the transaction currency and conversion comission

So far it works okay'ish on my setup.
I may support myself with the fork and applying my llm patches but I would really sleep better if I convince you to apply that idea to the product.

Tho, sure thing, I won't push you.

Anyway, thanks.