Budget

Support zero-based, or the envelope method of budgeting

I would love for certain categories to be able to budget an amount for the year, rather than inputting month by month.

This was a fantastic feature in Mint that allowed you to have your unbudgeted items outside of your main budget, so you could see if there was something in a category that would not normally fit into your budget. This is different than "uncategorized" items.

I'm out with my wife and she wants to buy our friend a $60 gift. Do we have the budget for that? I'd love a mobile friendly view to quickly check how our budgets look for moments like these. Something like what Mint has, but with Lunch Money's much improved look and feel that it has elsewhere :)

I really like the rollover feature that is available when setting a budget for a month. However, when you set a budget with a rollover, the rollover portion still counts towards the total budget for the month. This makes it so that when saving up for larger expenses (car repairs, home renos, etc), the budgeted amount each months continues to grow and grow and grow and the "Net Budgeted" for the month becomes a large negative value. If the rollover amount didn't actually count to this months budget, then this wouldn't happen. I think this makes sense because the rollover portion of the budget was accounted for in the previous month's budget and therefore should not count towards this month's budget as well. I feel like this could easily be implemented by having a "Rollover" column in the budget view where the amount is not editable but can be toggled on or off for each category.

Configure when a budget starts and ends

I use rollover budgets across the board, so i want an easy way to take all suggestions at once, rather than clicking each one to accept it. You could put under the "…" menu. Side note, are you calculating the rollover client side? As in the data the API returns, you don't provide it, so I can only assume you are pulling the last period budget, and calculating from that?

I really love this app so far, but I am unable to set a budget based on paycheque or bi-weekly which is needed

At the bottom of my budget I'd love to see the total budgeted for the month, and even possibly set a budget so I can split it across my categories

On the Finances > Budget view, it would be so helpful if my income and my allocations were totalled up so I saw how much I could increase or decrease budgets so they're almost equal to income. Pictured is a screenshot of Mint. This lets me know that I have $629 unallocated that I could put towards a goal. Having to sum it manually in LunchMoney is very tiresome.