This isn't a transactions page. This is a financial source-of-truth.
Parcel currently lack a central repository for users to track all transactions made through Parcel and other bank accounts. Hence, we require a system that allows users to categorize transactions, monitor incoming and outgoing transactions, add metadata, and generate reports.
PROJECT DETAILS
Industry
Web3 : Parcel Inc
Role
Product Designer
Team
1 designer (me), 1 PM, 3 engineers
Outcome
35% faster tagging · 4 enterprise clients · 25% revenue increase
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Overview
Parcel is a payments platform for crypto orgs; bookkeeping was the missing piece.
DAOs move money across thousands of anonymous transactions on multiple blockchains, where one missing token price means no defensible books at all.
Glenn, a DAO accountant, had no historical token prices for his payments, so no USD value, no P&L. Stuck.
BanklessDAO ran a main DAO plus dozens of guild safes with no single place to see every transaction, add context, and report.
The users were traditional-finance bookkeepers pushed into crypto, where every fiat assumption breaks.
The approach
Sole designer; 1 PM, 3 engineers; 3-week core release, then phased delivery.
Interviewed DAO accounting teams; watched their manual workflow (export from Safe, look up each price on CoinGecko, paste into Sheets, ~1.5 min per transaction).
The reframe that changed the brief: this looked like a speed problem but kept resolving into a trust problem. Bookkeepers had to prove every number to an auditor.
Trust became the objective; speed became a constraint.
Five gaps (volume, pricing, identity, permissions, structure) defined the build.
The Solution
Put the work where the eyes are: inline categorization and bulk actions on the list, non-blocking sidebar for the ambiguous 10%.
Make every price prove itself: auto-pricing by default, but showing method, price, and timestamp; editable; honest about $0 and missing data.
Resolve identity: reusable contacts, one entity across many wallets, labelled inline.
Separation of duties ported into crypto: Safe Owner, Sub-account Signer, read-and-annotate Bookkeeper roles.
Treat each wallet like a bank account: human names, multi-chain balances rolled into one total with drill-down.
The result
35% faster tagging (from ~1.5 min per transaction to roughly half).
4 new enterprise clients and a 25% revenue increase.
In-list pricing no competitor offered, plus an audit trail auditors trusted, was the opening.
The business outcomes followed the trust thesis, not the speed one: fast tools existed, but a fast tool a finance team could defend to an auditor did not.
Next: a plain-language, rule-based engine to auto-categorize recurring transactions.
