Smart Expense Tracking with Telegram & AI
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Automate your personal finance management by turning your Telegram chat into an intelligent expense tracker. Simply send a photo of a receipt or a text message, and this workflow uses AI to categorize your spending, extract crucial details, and provide instant summaries.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow, 'Tesseract - Money MateX,' transforms your Telegram into a powerful personal finance assistant. By leveraging AI, it automates the tedious process of tracking expenses and income. Simply send a photo of a receipt or a text message detailing a transaction, and the workflow will extract critical information like store, date, items, total, and categorize it (e.g., Food & Beverages, Household). It's designed for effortless financial logging, providing clear summaries and flagging potential input errors, making managing your money smarter and simpler.
Key Features
- Effortless Input: Submit expenses via text message or receipt photos directly from Telegram.
- AI-Powered Categorization: Intelligently categorize transactions into predefined categories like 'Food & Beverages,' 'Household,' or 'Income.'
- Automated Data Extraction: Automatically pulls key details such as store name, location, date, time, and total amount.
- Multi-language Support: Understands and processes input in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
- Smart Validation: Detects and flags potential input errors, such as transactions with a zero total.
How To Use
- Configure Telegram Trigger: Set up the 'Telegram Trigger' node with your Telegram Bot API credentials. This will create a webhook, enabling your n8n workflow to listen for incoming messages from your bot.
- Add OCR Node (for Photos): To fully utilize receipt photo input, you will need to insert an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) node (e.g., Tesseract, Google Cloud Vision) between 'Download Image' and 'AI Categorizer' to extract text from the images. The provided workflow name suggests this integration.
- Connect AI Credentials: Provide your Language Model (LLM) credentials (e.g., OpenAI API key) to the 'AI Categorizer' node to enable its intelligent parsing and categorization capabilities. Adjust the prompt if you wish to customize categories.
- Integrate Data Storage (Optional): Extend the workflow after 'Format Summary Message' to save the extracted and categorized financial data to your preferred storage solution, such as Google Sheets, a database, or another financial app.
- Set Up Telegram Response: Add a 'Telegram Send Message' node after 'Check Invalid Input' to send the formatted summary or error message back to the user, providing immediate feedback on their submission.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "a53cbbc4-8639-4749-b929-8c33425c004b",
"name": "Smart Expense Tracking with Telegram & AI",
"nodes": 10,
"category": "Personal",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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