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   Daimz
   Member

   Hi,

   I have recently punched money. And I love it and my wife finds it really easy and great to use how ever it lacks one thing as far as I can see that would skyrocket it to greatness and I don't se why such a obvious feature has been missed.

   My wife and I have a budget of $100 a week for entertainment.
   This includes, coffee, movies, eating out, rentals, events etc.

   Now it is obvious that I want to budget $100 a week that's a no brained I could use a pen for that sum don't need a fancy awesome app for that. However the awesomeness would be if the app let me set a entainment budget of $100 and then since I am cartagorising my transactions in to entertainment:coffee these would show up as sub categories with in my budget only to show me where my money is being spent whilst letting me know how the total budget for entertainment is going.

   As it is I have a entertainment category with sub catagories but I can't set a budget for entertainment only for it's sub categories which is completely pointless as my budget is for entertainment the subcategories are useless unless I can have a parent budget. Why would I want to make individual sub budgets. if I wanted to do that I would just use categories.

   I am sure you see what I am getting at. It possible to allow me to do this as I feel this is the only place where the App fails to preform and fail it does as this is the obvious and most logical approach to budgeting.

   Like I sai App of awesomeness but it ca really soar if you get detail like this right.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   Elena GR
   Moderator

   Thank you for your message. This is done in order to simplify program usability. If you want to use your own model, you should create subcategory entertainment:shared and create budgets there. This way you will see a full information on budgets and expenses in the parent category.

   Posted 10 months ago #
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   madmacmaniac
   Member

   Yes I agree I would definitely like to see budgets for parent categories. That applies to basically every area of my budget. Entertainment, shopping, food, utilities, car expenses, loan/debt... the list goes on. I don't need to set sub-budgets for each category. In fact it's kind of annoying to have to set a budget for each child category. Although I still want to be able to have child categories because it is nice to be able to see at a glance how much of my utilities budget went to the cable bill (for example).

   I don't think it would be difficult to do either. In fact budget for parent categories is much easier to comprehend for most people. You could have an option to select "Set budgets for parent category :: Set budgets for child category". This could be done across all parent categories, or you could choose which parent categories you want to work which way. If that makes sense.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Elena GR
   Moderator

   Replying to @madmacmaniac's post: Ok, we will consider it. Thank you.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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