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Ramadan giving is generous and, for most people, gloriously disorganised. Cash at taraweeh, a card payment after a charity appeal at iftar, Zakat handed to a relative, fidya sent through an app at 2 a.m. on an odd night. By Eid almost nobody can answer the simple question: what did I actually give, and of what kind?
This tracker answers it. Log each donation as you make it — date, amount, currency, a note, and its type: Zakat, Sadaqah, Fidya or other. The page totals everything, draws the split between obligatory and voluntary giving as a simple bar, and measures you against a monthly goal you set yourself. At the end of the month, export a clean summary for your own records.
A single merged total hides the one distinction Islamic giving law cares about most. Zakat is an obligation with rules: it must reach eligible categories of recipients, it is calculated on specific wealth at specific thresholds, and good intentions cannot redesignate it afterwards. Sadaqah is the wide, free ocean around that obligation — any amount, any good cause, any time. Fidya is its own category again: a defined payment standing in place of fasts that cannot be made up.
Logging the type at the moment of giving takes four seconds and prevents the classic Ramadan muddle — discovering in Shawwal that you cannot tell which payments were your Zakat and which were extra. If you are ever unsure how a payment should be classified, log it as other with an honest note, and clarify with a scholar later; a doubtful label recorded beats a confident one invented.
The monthly goal on this page is a planning device, not a religious duty. A useful way to set it: start with your calculated Zakat if you pay it in Ramadan, then add the voluntary giving you realistically want to layer on top — many people anchor on the odd nights, planning larger gifts for the 21st through the 29th when reward is sought most intensely.
Watch the progress bar the way you would watch a fuel gauge, not a scoreboard. Behind at day twenty with the odd nights still ahead is a normal, even deliberate, pattern. Ahead by day ten is not a reason to stop — the tradition's encouragement does not cap at your plan — but it is a reason to give the rest slowly and thoughtfully rather than in a rush of completion.
The note field is where the tracker earns its keep across years. Note the recipient or cause in words you will understand next Ramadan — the name of the family, the appeal, the masjid fund. When next year asks what you gave and to whom, or when a Zakat calculation needs last year's figures, this small archive answers without a forensic search through bank statements.
Export the summary before Eid and keep it with your financial records. ZakatSuite stores nothing: your log lives only in your browser, so the export is the only durable copy. Treat it with the same care — and the same privacy — as any other record of your worship.
No — this page records donations you make through your usual channels: cash, bank transfer, charity websites or ZakatSuite's own donation route. It never takes payment itself. Log each gift after you have actually made it.
Each entry carries its own currency label, so a month that mixes pounds, rupees and dollars is recorded faithfully. The headline total adds amounts as entered, so for a precise single-currency figure, review the export and convert the foreign entries at your own rate.
Zakat is your obligatory annual charity on qualifying wealth. Sadaqah is any voluntary giving beyond it. Fidya is the defined payment for fasts that cannot be made up, typically feeding a poor person per missed day. Kaffarah and Zakat al-Fitr can be logged under other with a note, or as their closest type — consistency matters more than the label.
Use ZakatSuite's main Zakat calculator, which works through nisab, assets and debts in your currency. This tracker then records what you paid against that calculation through Ramadan.
Completely. Entries are stored only in your browser on this device and are never uploaded. Exporting creates a text summary that you control.