DATE

21/06/2026

Transforming receipts into financial clarity

Transforming receipts into financial clarity

A personal finance platform that transforms receipts into meaningful spending insights.

A personal finance platform that transforms receipts into meaningful spending insights.

FinTech

Product Design

Role

Product Designer

Industry

FinTech & Personal Finance

Tools

UX Research • Product Strategy • UI Design • Prototyping

Category

iOS & Android

Overview

Every receipt tells a financial story.

Every receipt tells a financial story.

Helping users organize expenses, discover savings, and understand spending habits through digital receipts.

Helping users organize expenses, discover savings, and understand spending habits through digital receipts.

ETGO is a personal finance application designed to simplify expense management by turning paper and digital receipts into meaningful financial insights. Instead of manually organizing purchases across different sources, users can manage receipts, monitor spending, discover personalized offers, and collaborate on shared expenses from one centralized platform.

Problem

Financial information is scattered across too many places.

Financial information is scattered across too many places.

Managing expenses becomes difficult when receipts, transactions, and purchase records live in disconnected systems.

Managing expenses becomes difficult when receipts, transactions, and purchase records live in disconnected systems.

People receive purchase information from paper receipts, email confirmations, payment apps, and loyalty programs. This fragmented experience makes it difficult to track spending, find receipts, monitor budgets, and manage shared expenses with confidence.

Goal

Transform everyday receipts into meaningful financial insights.

Transform everyday receipts into meaningful financial insights.

Create a single experience that simplifies receipt management and helps users make better financial decisions.

Create a single experience that simplifies receipt management and helps users make better financial decisions.

The objective was to design an intuitive platform that automatically organizes receipts, visualizes spending, supports collaboration, and surfaces personalized savings opportunities while keeping the experience simple and approachable.

Research & Insights

Transform everyday receipts into meaningful financial insights.

Transform everyday receipts into meaningful financial insights.

Identifying common pain points in expense tracking and receipt management.

Identifying common pain points in expense tracking and receipt management.

Key Findings

Receipt management
Users struggle to organize and retrieve receipts after purchases.

Limited spending visibility
Many users know how much they spend but not where their money goes.

Manual tracking
Recording expenses manually becomes time-consuming and inconsistent.

Shared expenses
Splitting group purchases often requires multiple apps and calculations.

Missed savings
Offers and discounts are frequently overlooked because they are disconnected from purchase history.

Design Process

Designing a seamless financial experience.

Designing a seamless financial experience.

A structured process focused on clarity, usability, and iteration.

A structured process focused on clarity, usability, and iteration.

01

Understand the problem

Analyze existing spending behaviors and identify user pain points.

01

Understand the problem

Analyze existing spending behaviors and identify user pain points.

02

Structure the experience

Define information architecture and create intuitive user flows.

02

Structure the experience

Define information architecture and create intuitive user flows.

03

Design the interface

Design clean, accessible, and consistent screens for key financial tasks.

03

Design the interface

Design clean, accessible, and consistent screens for key financial tasks.

04

Refine and validate

Improve interactions, usability, and visual consistency before development.

04

Refine and validate

Improve interactions, usability, and visual consistency before development.

Information Architecture

Organizing financial information into clear experiences.

Organizing financial information into clear experiences.

Building an information hierarchy that makes everyday tasks easy to navigate.

Building an information hierarchy that makes everyday tasks easy to navigate.

The product structure was designed around the most common user activities, ensuring that receipts, expenses, offers, and collaboration remained easy to discover while reducing unnecessary navigation.

User Flow

Simplifying the journey from purchase to insight.

Simplifying the journey from purchase to insight.

Designing straightforward flows for capturing, organizing, and understanding expenses.

Designing straightforward flows for capturing, organizing, and understanding expenses.

User flows focused on minimizing friction while guiding users from receipt capture to meaningful financial insights in as few steps as possible.

Wireframes

Exploring layout before visual design.

Exploring layout before visual design.

Rapid iterations helped validate structure before investing in high-fidelity interfaces.

Rapid iterations helped validate structure before investing in high-fidelity interfaces.

Low-fidelity wireframes were used to explore navigation patterns, hierarchy, and interaction flows before moving into polished UI design.

Visual Design

Designing clarity through modern visual language.

Designing clarity through modern visual language.

A clean interface focused on readability, hierarchy, and trust.

A clean interface focused on readability, hierarchy, and trust.

The visual language emphasizes simplicity, spacious layouts, and clear visual hierarchy to make financial information easier to scan and understand.

Design System

Building consistency across every screen.

Building consistency across every screen.

Reusable components helped maintain quality while improving design efficiency.

Reusable components helped maintain quality while improving design efficiency.

A scalable design system was created using reusable components, typography, spacing, colors, and interaction patterns to ensure consistency across the product.

Features

Designed around everyday financial tasks.

Designed around everyday financial tasks.

Core experiences that help users manage spending with confidence.

Core experiences that help users manage spending with confidence.

Features

Receipt Capture

Digitize paper receipts using the device camera.

Digital Receipts

Store and organize receipts securely in one place.

Expense Analytics

Visualize spending trends across categories.

Expense Splitting

Split shared purchases with friends and family.

Offers & Savings

Discover relevant offers connected to spending habits.

Merchant Management

View purchase history grouped by merchant.

Solution

A unified receipt and expense management platform.

A unified receipt and expense management platform.

Combining receipt management, analytics, offers, and collaboration into one seamless experience.

Combining receipt management, analytics, offers, and collaboration into one seamless experience.

The final experience brings together receipt capture, spending insights, digital organization, and shared expense management into a single product that reduces manual effort while helping users better understand their finances.

Outcome

A simpler way to manage everyday finances.

A simpler way to manage everyday finances.

Helping users organize spending through intuitive product experiences.

Helping users organize spending through intuitive product experiences.

ETGO provides a centralized experience for managing receipts, understanding spending behavior, organizing expenses, and supporting collaborative financial activities through a consistent and user-focused interface.

Reflection

Design is about making complexity feel simple.

Design is about making complexity feel simple.

Building ETGO reinforced the importance of balancing business goals with user needs.

Building ETGO reinforced the importance of balancing business goals with user needs.

Working on ETGO strengthened my approach to simplifying complex financial workflows through thoughtful interaction design, structured information architecture, and scalable design systems. It also highlighted the value of continuous iteration and close collaboration throughout the product development process.

Let’s build something meaningful

Have a product idea, design challenge, or opportunity? I'd love to hear about it and explore how we can build something meaningful together.

Available for freelance and full time opportunities

Remote • Freelance • Full-Time

Let’s build something meaningful

Have a product idea, design challenge, or opportunity? I'd love to hear about it and explore how we can build something meaningful together.

Available for freelance and full time opportunities

Remote • Freelance • Full-Time

JAYDAVE

JAYDAVE

JAYDAVE

JAYDAVE

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