Some income is regular. Some income is occasional.
Bills to Budget now gives income a clearer place in the plan alongside upcoming bills and spending, making it easier to review without tracking deposits separately.
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Bills to Budget:
New in Bills to Budget: Account Review is built around a simple but useful idea.
Your current balance only tells part of the story. Add expected income, subtract upcoming bills and spending, and you get a clearer projected balance before the next cycle.
Account Review helps replace end-of-month balance guessing with a clearer projection based on income and upcoming bills.
Balances, pending payments, expected deposits, and budgets can drift apart before the end of the cycle.
Bills to Budget is getting a clearer Account Review flow so each account can be checked while the cycle is still moving and before the next one starts.
Coming May 4.
https://billstobudget.com/events/budgeting-for-real-life/#account-review
It’s payday and your balance looks great. Then the bills clear and suddenly it's tight. Every. Week.
It’s not bad luck, you’re just looking at the wrong number.
Bills to Budget shows your real balance — after the bills, before the surprises. Now you know where you stand, and what you can spend.
The next release of Bills to Budget lets you see and forecast your income right alongside your expenses
Set up a Pay Schedule and your income is tracked automatically. Add one-time transactions for irregular income too. It's never been easier to know exactly where you stand.
Shipping later month!
Bills to Budget will soon make it even simpler to plan your budgets.
Enter your bank balance. The app pre-fills the basics for you - income, bills, and your standard spending budgets. You confirm or adjust as necessary. Done in just a few minutes.
Coming in late April.
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This is the first step toward a full 2.0, built with four major pillars in mind:
- Simplified Navigation
- Income Tracking - see and track your regular - and irregular - income
- Account Review - manage your spending budgets as they happen
- Calendar Forecasting - get a better view of the future
A few views from the latest Bills to Budget update:
✓ income in the plan
✓ account activity in context
✓ projected balances
✓ account review before the next cycle
Friday is a good time to check what next week already has planned for your money.
Bills to Budget helps you review upcoming bills, expected income, balances, and carryover before the next budget cycle starts.
A simple budgeting check:
current balance
+ expected income
- upcoming bills and spending
= projected balance
Bills to Budget helps keep those pieces in one view, so you can see where the rest of the month is heading without rebuilding it in your head.
A budget should not only know what bills are coming up. It should also know what income is expected.
New in Bills to Budget: income is now a clearer part of the plan, so forecasts and account review can reflect how money actually moves.
That matters when you are trying to understand the next stretch, not just today's balance. Money coming in and money going out belong in the same view.
Big changes to the Bills to Budget Account View coming up, designed to make it simpler to see what coming up for any account, and to give you a full account of all of your past transactions - both expenses and income.
Release expected in early May - Test Flight coming soon!
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@burn617@hachyderm.io Thanks for the feedback! I have a similar feature request on the backlog, and have just given it a bump.
You can pause a bill today, which I often use for this sort of thing - it's helpful to at least keep the history around, and you can restart the payment schedule later, but I agree that it's not a perfect fit for what you're looking for.
Having a proper end date would help make long term balance forecasts more accurate as well, so it's definitely worthwhile!