I have a job that pays me every other week and I get an income from my husband on the 20th and 5th. The income stays the same, but just the dates are different. How do I include this in my budget?
You can enter each transaction separately, and schedule them to post on the accurate dates. For example, you would schedule yours every other week, and schedule one of his monthly on the 5th and another identical transaction monthly on the 20th.
Hope that helps!
How do you do this within the same budget? It only allows me to put in a “primary” with the every 2 weeks selected. There is nowhere to put as a secondary “Semi-monthly” income.
It sounds like you’re looking at your spending budget, which is just the plan for your outgoing money. Income is recorded as transactions and won’t be part of your budget per se; you’ll just create those Income transactions, click “Schedule this”, and choose the dates. When you receive money it increases the balance in your Available pile, and your next envelope fills will come from that.
Be sure when you’re creating your budget that you both create the plan (what you’re seeing now) AND schedule Fills. The budget part is like writing a goal on the outside of a paper envelope—you know how much you’ll need inside, but until you do a Fill, that is, stuff the envelope, you still won’t have money to spend.
Does that make sense?
Yes, thank you.