The time has finally arrived... you can now set monthly limits on your spending categories! Members have been requesting this feature for quite some time and we're proud to announce it's finally here. This will be a great tool for helping you set budgets each month.
Spending Limits Manager screenshot.
In the new Monthly Spending Limits manager you can quickly add, view, edit and remove limits for accounts and categories. Forget using envelopes to manage your money each month, let us do it for you automatically. Once you set up a limit for an account or category, as soon as you make a purchase in that account or category it deducts from your limit and shows you how much you've spent.
As you can see from the screenshot on the left, my budgeting could use a little work. Now that the limits manager has been set up, it'll be a lot easier to judge how much I can spend on different categories each month.
You really need to check it out and see how awesome and easy it is to use. You can check out the
screenshots if you don't already have an account with us.
Try it out and let us know what you think by posting here in the comments!
Spending Limit: $700
100%
You have spent $697.85 this month.
This is 100% of your monthly limit.
isn't anything wrong with this math?
=p
everything is perfect at all.
great job, guys.
it's helping a lot on my finances ;)
thank you,
Pablo Dias
Basically what it's doing is rounding just a little bit. Since that's 99.6% of your budget, it went ahead and rounded up to 100%.
I'm not sure why you aren't able to send contact messages, other people have been sending them in on a regular basis. Does it give you an error when you try to send one?
about the contact, maybe it's a problem right here.
it gives no error messages.. just stay "sending.." forever
thanks for reply ;)
Is it possible for Clearcheckbook to do a forecast ? I.e. as Quicken - in which you can make a forward looking line graph? I find this very useful for managing upcoming expenses. I would use Clearcheckbook full time if it also has this.
With many thanks
Simon
I do have a question though: is it possible to set a specific percentage of your monthly income for each spending category? This way my budget for each spending category will constantly mutate to reflect how much money I pull in that month!
I'm a student working bizarre hours and accepting random "I'm making sure you're alright" checks from my mother, so this ability to just decide how much of an uncertain income I want to devote to each category each month would be extremely helpful.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks!
How about having "virtual" sub accounts for say a main account along with spending limits on them? That will be a great way to implement the "envelope method" - Agree spending limit on categories provide something similar but this would be much neater.
Regards,
Prasanth
Thanks!