NOW IN PRODUCTION

Employees, payroll,
and budget.
In one desktop app.

A desktop app for the people, the pay runs, and the budget register. No subscriptions. No cloud. The books stay on this computer.

Offline-first
Payroll and budget together
PDF reports
CFS Finance Manager dashboard with September cards, profit and loss, and both pies.
BUILT BY CFS

Designed for a small office.

I built a budget tracker because I needed a register that was simple, fast, and on my own computer. No monthly fees. No data in the cloud. Just a desktop app I could open and trust.

That page grew into CFS Finance Manager. Employees, payroll runs, and the budget register now live in one app. The amounts in these pictures are test data, not client books.

"“This isn’t just another budgeting tool. It’s the one I use every week.”"
Andrew Finney
Custom Forged Software
POWERFUL FEATURES

Everything the office needs

Live Dashboard

Real-time balance, headline cards, recent transactions, with elegant spending and income pie charts.

Employees

A searchable list with a detail form.

Payroll

Draft and posted runs, a timesheet summary, and a daily calendar. With Profesional Monthly/quarterly/yearly reports.

Budget Tracker

Income, Expenses, and Net follow the filter. The register keeps a running balance.

Date display

A machine-wide date format, ISO or US. Storage stays YYYY-MM-DD.

Roles

Admin, user, and viewer. A viewer can open the views but cannot edit records.

THE APP IN ACTION

Clean. Intuitive. Professional.

Dark theme throughout. Every screen designed with clarity and speed in mind.

DASHBOARD
Dashboard with September cards, profit and loss, recent transactions, and both pies.
EMPLOYEES
Employee list and the detail form, with Hire Date and End Date hints.
PAYROLL
Payroll runs, timesheet summary, and the July daily calendar.
BUDGET TRACKER
Budget Tracker with Income, Expenses, and Net cards, a chart, and the register.
REPORTS
Budget reports view with a 2026 Q3 summary and CSV and PDF export buttons.
SETTINGS
Settings open on the dashboard, Date format set to US, Admin Tools closed.
SIGN IN
Unlock dialog with username, password, show password, and Unlock with Recovery Key.

Walkthrough

A 60 to 90 second screen recording is planned.

Built with modern Python tools

Python desktop app. No cloud sync. No hassle.

Python + Tkinter
MySQL + SQLCipher
Matplotlib
ReportLab

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