Hello
I don’t see anywhere in GB, how much did I filled all envelopes until now the present month.
If you would like to view how much money is in your Envelopes, then you can view this on the web by looking at the top number on the right of each Envelope. The top bolded gray number represents how much money is currently in your Envelope. The bottom number shows the budgeted amount that you gave to your Envelope.
On the web, if you click on your Envelope, you will also see a running balance number of all the actions of either removing or adding money to your Envelope.
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Chloe
Hi Chloe,
I don’t think you are understanding the question here. I think Jose’s question is the same as mine. Can you please provide some reports that analyze actual fundings?
Some users (like me) don’t always follow the monthly funding/budget amount that is manually entered by the user. Surprises always come up so you just fund the envelope based on need - not ideal circumstances. You go over budget, so you fund more than you budgeted.
You provide reports that analyze spending, but spending sometimes includes funds/balances which have accumulated over time, so it’s not very meaningful to compare actual income to spending. If you spend what you’ve accumulated over time, then of course it will look like you’re spending more than your income, but it’s ok because you planned for it, so it’s not going to actually put you underwater. It’s not necessarily cause for concern like the reports may suggest at face value.
Budget is just your plan or your ideal, but as we know, things don’t always go according to plan or according to budget. Life happens.
What would be very helpful are reports that provide actual funding statistics on a monthly basis plus averages and totals over time. The numbers you reference in your reply are not helpful because they include spent amounts. We want to know total fundings going into our envelopes without deducting the amounts going out.
I don’t always fund all available income each month because I like to see what kind of “cushion” might accumulate in my Available balance. I’m trying to ask the question, “once my envelope balances are at a comfortable level, do I still have money left over (consistently, every month) that I can start putting into a retirement account regularly or buy a new car with a new auto loan payment?” Again, since life throws curve-balls at you and you don’t always know what surprises may come up, it would be helpful to compare income to actual envelope funding over a period of time. To say it another way, it could help a user determine the average magnitude of “curve-balls” that life throws at us during a six-month period or whatever period we choose.
Anyway, all that just to say, can you please provide users with some “actual fundings” reports and analyses that don’t automatically deduct out the actual spendings?
Let me know if it would be more helpful to send this message to the support@goodbudget.com or begin a separate post instead of replying to this post.
Thank you.