MEMOMAT 5.1 pro
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Memomat is an application conceived for all those who use credit or ATM cards and want to have a powerful tool to record and monitor all transactions carried out with them.

With Memomat you can record any type of operation. You can record both types of operations which involve an output cash flow, e.g. a withdrawal or payment, and also transactions associated with input cash flows, such as cash or a check deposit. Even operations that do not create any cash flow may be registered without problems.

Memomat allows you to record transactions made either in local currency or in foreign currency. The exchange rate can be either manually entered or automatically set to the current value retrieving it from Internet.

Memomat allows you to easily and quickly verify the transactions on the bank statement of account without the need to use the tickets. It also allows you to maintain a reminder of all those transactions that do not produce any tickets or for which the ticket is lost.

Memomat automatically calculates the total revenue and expenditure and their respective balances for various time periods, thus providing the user an excellent tool to control their spending capacity.

Memomat is easy and immediate in its use and does not place limits on the number of transactions recorded, on the number of cards manageable and on the types of operations defined.

Memomat allows you to export the list of operations in two separate formats, one readable and the other said CSV (comma separated values) useful to import the list with other software such as Excel.

INSERTING A NEW ENTRY
Menu > New entry

The program requires the insertion of the following data:
  - Date: is the day when the operation is performed;
  - Time: is the time when the operation is performed;
NOTE: Date and Time are automatically preset to values they have when you open the window, but you can modify them at will.
  - Card: is the card used in the operation; the field is set with the default card, but you can modify it at will.
- Bank or store: is the name of the bank or the store or any other location where the operation is performed.
- Address: is the address (of the bank or store) where the operation is performed.
- City: is the city where the operation is performed.
- Type of operation: is the type of operation carried out with the card, for example "withdrawal", "payment", etc.; you can enter any type of operation, even those that give rise to revenues (i.e. cash or check deposit); you can also enter types of operation that don't give rise to cash flows at all; in this case in the field Amount of money you will have to enter the value 0 (zero).
- Amount of money: is the amount of money expressed in your currency; the number must be always positive (or zero), never be negative; it will be the inserted type of operation to state if the cash flow is a payment or a receipt (i.e. if the type of operation is "deposit", then the amount of money will be interpreted as a receipt; if it is "withdrawal", then the amount of money will be interpreted as a payment).
  - Additional notes: allows to insert any additional note regarding the operation carried out with your card.

You can insert the data both directly using the iPhone keyboard and in a faster way by choosing an item in the list that you can open touching the little button on the right of each field. The proposed items in that list are all and only the elements already inserted in the database for that field.
Using these lists you can insert very quickly the data in the fields every time you carry out an operation similar to a previous one.
Moreover, touching the "recent items" button, you will able to fill in a single shot all the input fields with values taken from one of the last registrations made. The recent items list shows the last 30 operations performed.

By pressing the button "foreign" placed above the "amount of money" field, you can open the view "Currency" that will allow you to insert an amount of money in foreign currency. In that view there is the field "amount of money" where you will insert the amount of money expressed in foreign currency. Next, in the central part of the view, you will have to select the desired currency code and insert the proper exchange rate from foreign to local currency. If you desire it, you can retrieve from Internet the current value for that rate by pressing the button placed under the exchange rate insertion field. Did that,  you will have to press the bottom OK button in order to confirm the entire insertion.
After pressed the OK button and returned to the previous view, you will see in the "amount of money" field the just inserted amount of money in local currency and, between brackets, in foreign currency. To modify that, you have to press the little button above the "amount of money" field that now assumes the label "remove". Doing so, the "amount of money" field is completely emptied and the insertion can restart as usual.

DISPLAY OF ENTRIES
Menu > All entries

Memomat allows you to view the entire list of transactions recorded in the database. You can choose two types of sort order:
- Based on input: in practice records included more recently are shown in the top of the list;
- Based on date of the registration: those operations whose date (the value inserted into the Date field) is more recent are being displayed at the top of the list.
Moreover, the list can contain all the operations carried out with any card or just the operations carried out with a specific card.
Pressing the button at the top right of the navigation bar, you open the panel from which you can make all these choices.
Touching an individual item on the list, you'll see all the details of the operation it represents. In the detailed data view you can access all previous or following recordings by simply horizontally sliding your finger on the element to the right or left.
From the detailed data view, you can also edit the individual registration by pressing the button "edit" in the top right of navigation bar. Once entered into edit mode, you can change any element of the record. In particular, if the order of the list of operations is based on the date of operation and you change right the value of the Date field, the entry will change position in the list in order to reflect the new entered value.
You can delete an individual operation from the list by sliding the finger to the left above the item and pressing the red button "delete" that appears above the item itself.

CARDS MANAGEMENT
Menu > My cards

Memomat allows you to manage multiple cards and associate each operation with one of them. Each card will be identified by a name chosen by the user. You can also assign additional notes to each card.
You can enter an unlimited number of cards. To insert a new card, touch the button with the "+" symbol placed in the top right of the navigation bar.
Upon installation, the program automatically defines a card called "My card." You can then change it at will.
The program requires the user to choose which card is the default. The default card is the card most used by you and that is automatically set when inserting a new record. To make a card a default one, press the corresponding button at the bottom of the detail view of the card or when it is entered.
You can delete an individual card from the list by sliding the finger to the left above the item and pressing the red button "delete" that appears above the item itself. The program will warn you if the card you want to delete was used in one or more registrations. If you confirm the cancellation of the card, all these records will also be deleted.

CALCULATION OF TOTALS
Menu > Totals

Memomat allows you to get the total revenue and expenditure, and the respective balances, either on the whole or for various time periods. Currently, the following totals are defined:
 - Overall: takes into account all transactions regardless of their date;
 - Today: takes into account all transactions whose date is equal to the date of the current day;
  - Yesterday:  takes into account all transactions whose date is equal to the date of the day preceding the current one;
  - The current week: takes into account all transactions whose date falls between Monday and Sunday for the current week;
  - The current month: takes into account all transactions whose date falls in the current month;
  - The previous month: takes into account all transactions whose date falls in the month preceding the current one;
  - Two months ago: takes into account all transactions whose date falls two months before the current one;
  - The current year: takes into account all transactions whose date falls in the current year;
The totals can be calculated in relation either to a single card or for the whole set of cards. To make this choice, press the button at the top right of the navigation bar.
In order to make right calculations, the program needs to know what kind of cash flows are associated with each type of operation. Therefore, the first time you will request to calculate the totals, a special panel containing all types of operations present in the database will appear. For each of these types the user will be requested to specify if the related cash flow is a receipt (i.e. a deposit) or a payment (i.e. a withdrawal). You will be able also to ignore at all that type of operation during calculation of totals.
The above-mentioned panel of types will open later only if new types of operations will inserted into the database. The new types, whose association with a type of cash flow is missing, will be indicated with the red color.
As long as there will be just a single red marked type, it will not be possible to calculate the totals.
To make the association to cash flows, will be enough to touch one of three buttons available for each type:
  - receipt: the amount of money related to this type of operation will be considered a cash receipt, that is a revenue;
  - payment: the amount of money related to this type of operation will be considered a cash payment, that is an expenditure;
  - don't care: the amount of money related to this type of operation will not be considered at all when calculating the totals.
When all the types of operation will be associated to a cash flow, the above-mentioned panel will not open anymore and the program will proceed directly to the calculation of totals.
However, you will be able to open the panel of types at any time later to change types associations through the utility menu (see below).

UTILITIES
Menu > Utilities

This panel provides various functions of general utility.

Sending Report:
Memomat allows you to extract the entire list of operations using two different formats, one of them being readable and the other called CSV (comma separated values). The CSV format allows you to import the list with other softwares like, for example, Excel.
It is possible to determine whether to extract a list of all transactions or only transactions for a specific card.
If you choose to export the data of all the cards, you can determine whether or not to group transactions according to the card.
After export, the application remembers what and when it was exported. The next time you want to export the data, you can choose the incremental export. This allows you to export only the new operations respect to last export made. The date of the last data export for that type of extraction is shown under the switch "incremntal".
The export is done by creating an email message which can then be sent to any recipient. In the body of the message you will find the list with the chosen format.
If you want to import the list of all operations with Excel (or other similar softwares), you should extract it using the CSV format and send it by email to a recipient. When the email message has arrived, you can copy&paste the body of the message to a new text file. Then you will be able to read this text file with Excel and start the import process.

Operation types:
Through the "show all the operation types" button you can open the panel of types and modify at will their associations with cash flows.

Resetting the database:
This function allows, as an utility in case of problems or if you want to delete the entire list, to reset the database. This operation is irreversible and permanently deletes all records saved up to that point and all the entered cards, bringing the database to the initial conditions at the time the application was installed on the iPhone.