Faness at YNAB Got it - thanks so much! You can either just ignore any overages and underages, and keep the same budget for the next month, or you can carry over the surplus or deficit into the next month. Re the actual topic, YNAB used to say they were primarily about the method. In the mobile app, this is available by tapping on the lightning bolt symbol. Accounting for going “over-budget” is easy with YNAB. Each month, you ha… If you want a forecasting/tracking budget system, there are a lot of tools out there that will do that for you... and some of them are even free. The workflow for reimbursements using a tracking account is quite different than the above because real money is coming from a third party. Or option C -- the recommended approach -- you reallocate from a lower priority category making your budget a more accurate reflection of your priorities. They discovered people were using it to lie to themselves about the true state of their budget, so decided to eliminate it. I find the web version has a nicer interface, in some ways, than YNAB 4. I'm just trying to follow the YNAB approach and it seems like they put the budgeted amount front and center. I don't know the exact amounts, and I feel the tool is forcing me into an unnatural framework. So you move the cash from the other category and when you are reimbursed, that cash can now go anywhere. This Help Doc explains what happens in your budget when the new month starts, and how you can trust your budget as you flip the calendar over. Why not let people who want the flexibility have it? I'm still not understanding why it wouldn't appear as funded/green. Regardless, anything budgeted last month,  results in negative red numbers as I move things around this month, which leads into my second question. The carry over should be funds in your bank account to help thru the first weeks of your new year, especially if your year runs Jan to Dec as Jan income is often one of your lowest months. I suspect, as Move Light Sound Life does, that you're floating your reimbursements from the budget rather than as CC debt. I realise YNAB isn't a commercial accounting system, it's personal finance system, but it is a mature product, and they could maintain a feature set that allows some flexibility thereby pleasing more of their customers. Same thing for vacations. I am so desperately missing the function from YNAB 4 of being able to carry over deficit to next month. I'm perplexed and frustrated that budgeted amounts don't move to the next month. I've checked the settings and do not see a way to do this. For instance, you might set pets $33 higher to 'pay it off' all at once, or set it to the average outflows of the past 3 months to smooth out under and over budgeting. What numbers will carry over into the new month? Rww Any debt is shown in the difference between your card balance and the amount you have available to pay that card in your budget. It's like taking $50 out of the envelope and then putting it right back in the same envelope. If you use credit, you create debt that can be paid back over time. Every dollar needs a (single) job to do, and carrying over overspending means the money in your actual accounts has to do multiple jobs: do whatever you've assigned them to do, and also cover for your overspending at the same time. Again, the average user just won't do this. You didn’t have the money in December so you did in fact overspend the category. If you use cash/debit, that's actual money you no longer have access to. You have control over how you classify them too. I budgeted the money last paycheck (last week in July) and since then, it's only time that has changed. I agree that in this case, there needs to be an indicator visible from the budget page  to call attention to the fact they need to deal with this specific issue, what credit card is involved, and what the transactions involved were (like the categories). If funds are not spent in a particular month, they roll over to the next month so your balances can accumulate. Oh wait, except for credit cards. so let’s say you have a non-savings category for groceries. You can't spend $100 on gas or you'll break the bank. The YNAB category will turn orange on the first day of every month as a reminder that I have a goal for that category. Marketing Guy | Musician | Empath | Enthusiast, a category with a scheduled outflow that doesn't yet have enough to cover the outflow, I have the honor to be your obedient servant. Yes, YNAB insists you mirror your budget to reality, so you can't construct any sensible concept of forecasts or allocation of funds over time, just real-time tracking and endless adjustments. If it's a category with an upcoming transaction, add funds when you can before the transaction date, and if it's cash-based (e.g. At best it's only more than you have available in that category, at worst it is more than you have available overall (creating debt). Hindsight is 20/20 after all. Foremost in my mind is that "month" is found 20 times in your response and 60+ times in this page, yet variations of "pay" and "paid" are not found in your response and merely 12 times in this page. lindsay_g You probably seeded all of those reimbursable categories with your own money, first. On the rare event I have one, I end up thinking, why did I every like this? If I overspend in one month this is not carried forward, so the following month I have to remember that, or just have it deducted from TBB, It's funny how any criticism of this software is met with such stern defense on these forums. But it is not doing this. Silver Orca I understand what you want to do. YNAB does this by subtracting any cash overspending from your To be Budgeted in the following month. Your categories tell you how much you can spend from them right now. For instance, if I budget $100/mo of Bars/Drinks and spend only $57, I'd prefer my next month's available spending to … dakinemaui  bevocat  Thank you for your responses. I’m not being sarcastic, it’s a real question. They stay in the category until you move the funds to another category or until you spend. The dollars are already in the envelope. There needs to be options like in the toolkit, but more fundamental functionality. So the issue I'm having is what do I do next month. this is one area where EveryDollar’s approach differs than YNAB’s. If I want to budget £300 per month for clothes, and spend a bit more / bit less some months, there is no easy way to do this with clarity. I think it clarifies some things, but raises additional questions. Goals is a visual reminder overlay that you can add to each seperate category. The purchase is an outgoing transfer for $600 to the tracking account categorized as Home Furnishing, which goes yellow/overspent. There’s nothing complicated about it. Maybe you're saving for a vacation, pay a bill twice a year, or you’re planning for Christmas (hint: It comes in December this year). The best way to do that is to use a categorized transfer in the relevant transactions rather than a normal categorized (non-transfer) transaction. YNAB is showing you your actual situation: you prepaid money on a vacation, and that money left your budget and now can't be used for other things. 2) Things get easier once you can budget in sync with your expense recurrence (which is some multiple of monthly for most people). I apologize for the connotations becoming offensive. Iremember that there was a way to carry over the budget to the next month so I don't have to start off with zero in every category and then adjust. You spent the cash in January. In the case that reimbursements are handled as temporary debt -- as most large work expenses are -- YNAB forgets at the month changeover that the reimbursement money needs to wind up in the CC Payment category. 1. (If you sign up for a new credit account (e.g., at the store), I'll address it at the end. How much from each? -- If you are in a situation where you need to pre-pay for something, make sure you either have the money available to pay for it, or at least can pay it using credit. I prepaid the vacation, so I had a negative red available in December, but in fact I have 3 months to pay for it, so I expect to budget money this money and to see the “available” money be the red amount from last month minus what I budget. You can have multiple of these, vacation, emergency, buffer, etc. YNAB is an allocation budget system, not a free for all, and you can't allocate money more money to categories than you have on-hand, because it makes the actual category balances invalid. YNAB will do that for you with their end of the month rollover handling by taking it out of TBB (cash overspending) or not increasing available payment to credit card (CC overspending). Agent99 Totally agree. Logged pipercat. When those red flags start appearing it causes great anxiety for me. When the month rolls over, categories with credit overspending reset to $0—you no longer need to budget in the previous month to cover the purchase. If you haven't budgeted money to a category yet, then it will be zero. It's a reasonable feature though, if that's what you want, but like a lot of YNAB it's mandatory and not flexible. It doesn't feel fine. You have to have the budgeted column because it's an easy way to input how much you are adding or subtracting from the envelope. The tracking account balance is now $600. If I get reimbursed during the same month, this is fine. the amount you put in each month is the number in the Budgeted column. My store brand has a diet cola, caffeine-free diet cola, Diet Dr Pepper knock-off, and a Coke Zero knock-off. For instance, "Medical" is a tax-related category and at the end of the year I will not know how my money is really being spent. If you keep spending over $1,000 you’ll go into debt. Unfortunately, that approach is not appropriate for anyone. THANK YOU! dakinemaui , can you expand on your statement on an auxiliary tracking accounts. adriana01 for example, if you buy the SodaStream version of Coke Zero (as opposed to their version of Diet Coke; they're different), or a store brand version. Confusion could be eliminated with a simple UI addition to the header to summarize current month overspending. Forgot to mention how to handle a new credit account. Also I drink plain carbonated water. Again, this is a last resort autocorrection to keep people from lying to themselves about their budgets. In May my work pays for part of that, about 220KD (different currency) as part of my salary package. I don't use and have only made a short term attempt to use nYNAB 2.5 years ago before I ran screaming from the computer. I would strongly urge you to think about things a little differently than it would seem you are at present. I have the same issue as above, so thank you for the answer. You could carry over money within categories instead of moving all excess to the buffer, but the problem then is you lose track of what you actually need to budget each month per category because you might end up carrying money over for months. You can leave the overspend alone, or you can “turn the arrow to the right”. In lieu of incurring interest for our employers, we either 1) seed our categories before spending for a planned reimbursable expense, or 2) spend, cover from another category, turn the month over, accept the reimbursement, and disburse the covered funds back to their original category(ies) in the appropriate amount. If you inadvertently spend over, nYNAB hides that from you if CC spending and then just like you've posted, you have no freaking idea as to what happened. You will enter 50 in eating out and 100 in groceries. Agreed on both points. You have complete control over the number and names of categories, just as you would in a spreadsheet. YNAB automatically deducts the amount that you overspent from “To Be Budgeted” in the new month. As of now, it doesn't work for me. You can go back to view last month's budget or forward to next month's budget. This is what confuses me most about YNAB: all of the training material and viral hype about the tool promote the idea that you're not budgeting monthly, but rather you're budgeting according to your pay cycle. There are 2 options: The easiest thing is two separate transactions. I assume this is on your normal CC. I am trying to avoid moving money month to month and not having it saved when needed later in the year. The consequence is then, you can't use that capital for it's originally intended purpose -- that's the reality you seem to want to ignore. I make no secret that I leverage the red arrow as it works best for my personal situation. I understand it's not your preference, and you liked the way you were using it before, but this was a conscious decision on the part of the developers not to allow anyone to use their product that way anymore. A New Month Might Make You Nervous. One day, probably more than one day but less than 32 days after you start (okay, definitely less, definitely), the month is going to “roll over”. I'm missing something, but living with the orange, like  you said, no way... that will drive me nuts. At the end of the month, there was still $50 in the clothing envelope. From the main budget view, scroll to the top of the page where you see the name of the month and the year. Each month you repeat this. Whether you want to move on from a starter budget, your life and priorities have changed, your (ahem) budgeting habits went south, or you just want a new view of your money (old budgets can be full of old habits, after all), try a Fresh Start. Is the method for everyone? Two thoughts... 1) you don't have to budget across months if you don't feel it is as effective. Tomato Cobra You budget money as you receive it, answering the question of "what does this new money need to do between now and the next time I am paid?" 3. Been waiting 5 years for the Stealing From the Future fix... the initial pot of money each month before you put it in envelopes is your To Be Budgeted. But I have PIF cards, a buffer, EF and I'm not on the edge. That's what I needed. Using my clothing envelope example, let's assume I have decided it's reasonable to add $100 to my clothing category every month. dakinemaui I’m paying for it from my own money , budgeting for it fromTBB, and repaying it when I get repaid. I want YNAB to allow me to go over and under a budgeted figure per category, month to month, like it used to, without me having to adjust figures up and down all the time. nolesrule Which probably means they're worth what you paid for them. The seductive whisper to spend a little of next month's income right now for (insert justification) is such a slippery slope to the financial horrors of my past, and I just won't/can't go there. You are excited that you can have an awesome, functional budget and still have the perks of credit cards. Month 3, ok if you carried over from the previous month you’d now be down to $200 a month for your grocery budget! Usually,  the best way is the envelope analogy. ), Working to Get Smart at budgeting, finances and life. I record the money as ‘work, to be repaid’. If you get a huge check from the University accompanied by a letter saying ‘here are your tuition expenses ‘, how is it hard to ‘remember’ that’s your tuition expenses? If you are finding the display confusing or annoying (the orange messes with my mind something fierce), you can remove/delete the goals until you get a better sense of how the software can work for you and how you like to organize your financial affairs. That's how you build up money to pay annual expenses or emergency expenses or over years to buy a car. You can go back to view last month's budget or forward to next month's budget. It's not okay to have negative numbers in your budget, because it means that you are either budgeting money you do not have, or you are spending money that you don't have. The number that matters is "available." From the way nYNAB users are describing the stealth debt situation from negative rollovers, it seems a  UI improvement is needed or a minimum a dialog box warning the user at month end of the new debt situation. The option you're looking for is the Quick Budget feature! Creating a new budget is very simple. But it is doing exactly what it was designed to do - run a zero based budget by using electronic envelopes. When you overspend with a credit card, you've racked up some additional debt - though no actual cash has left your budget or accounts. I'm having the same issue. mamster perfect. -- I'd suggest adjusting your category balances, reducing your emergency fund or other categories to account for the overspending. As for 'YNAB Methodology' - the previous version did let you carry over negative balances, and it worked fine. Sometimes, you've budgeted for an upcoming expense and need to carry that balance forward to next month. You would take all your money in cash and then envelopes. It has all of our retirement accounts, all the bank accounts, the savings accounts, the investments, our debts, the mortgage, the kids' college accounts. In March's budget, I budgeted less in gas so that I would have money to fill up the other category. Most of the generic colas taste more like Pepsi to me, which I don't care for. If you used your savings to pay for something how is it hard to write a note to record that? 2. It seems like a case of YNAB thinking they know exactly how everyone should run their finances, rather than providing flexible tools so we can run them as we see fit. You can do this one by one, or category group by category group by clicking the checkbox to the left of the category. You will know when you can buy the car of your dreams when the envelope contains enough to buy it. Zero out by changing next month's budget rather than this month's. Add funds directly to the Credit Card Payment category in the current month. YNAB does not carry over that overspending to the new month -- that money has been spent. If you're definitely going to pay it, the need to budget $X / month to the CC Payment category is a given. YNAB wipes out negative categories at the month changeover, so it's easy to forget that you are owed money with the category-only approach. It isn't ok to take more money out of an envelope that it contains in total: that is creating debt. So you need to eliminate the red in your budget, because YNAB is a plan for the money you have. An unmet goal will turn the category orange. 2 You'll see all your dollars still To be Budgeted. It's funny how any criticism of this software is met with such stern defense on these forums. YNAB does not carry over that overspending to the new month -- that money has been spent. If it's a goal target you haven't met yet, you can budget funds as you get them, live with the orange all month if you choose to not fund the category (so annoying), or go to next month and revise the goal there. where everydollar has you create a “new” budget every month (with all categories reseting to zero each month—unless you mark them as funds), YNAB is more fluid month-to-month. We constantly used this to track if we paid for someone and they owe us money. Happy New Year! dakinemaui; dakinemaui; 4 wk ago; Reported - view; Gold Wrench Have you tried offsetting the category? It's my favorite soda. If any transaction in that category was on a credit card, even if it wasn’t the transaction that caused the category to be overspent, YNAB converted the whole overspend into credit card debt when the month rolled over. Now it's here and it's yuck. However, I appreciate your help and the always fast response. In 2013 it was the most popular personal … That would save me a lot of money! So I will continue to use YNAB 4 as long as possible. If your carry over gets to a significant amount possibly you could budget some expenses knowing that your income probably for the coming year will not exceed your expenses. There's nothing wrong with beginning again. And you need to know what to do in your budget when it does!IMPORTANT! Faness Hi there. Click that to open up the month navigator. It can forecast under a myriad different conditions. Most of us just included amount or date reminders in the category names. Oldest first; Newest first; Active threads; Popular; Login to reply. I don’t understand what it is that’s supposed to be missing from the equation. If you use credit, you create debt that can be paid back over time. adriana01 of course all personal choice, but no regrets here at giving up soda. So you put $100 each month in the "rent" envelope and say $50 each month for the "new car" etc. (I don't drink, but I have fond memories of Guinness/Shiner milkshakes!). In YNAB 4 you had a couple options. Here's to leaving all budgeting frustration back in 2017! When they repay me I record that income as ‘work to be repaid ‘, not as TBB. But why the orange status? Because of this, it is important that you hold your budget accountable. You made it this far! There is no need to reassign the funds in August. I send that money back to my UK bank account, and record it in the flights  category, not as TBB. Carry the overspend forward and adjust those category budgets upward. Also it’s actually pretty offensive given the connotations. I just did this with gas I bought on Feb. 27. Otherwise, the excess will just carry over into next month’s “available to budget” balance and you’ll have a chance to assign it a new job. Making a Fresh Start. They don't put the budgeted number front and center. YNAB wants you to distribute the capital as you go along, every month, in and out of every category, which is tiresome. Previously, I used to estimate about how much I'd spend per month on categories (ex: $200 on restaurants) and I'd enter this as my budget amount at the beginning of the month. Ceeses  I'm just trying to follow the YNAB approach and it seems like they put the budgeted amount front and center. I need several workarounds to get to how I want to budget, which was fairly natural in previous versions. You can budget them in the next month: 1 In the header of the budget, scroll forward to the next month. I wish to carry over my budget of £60, not £109, but without remembering the £60 that I worked out that figure is lost and I … It's really frustrating not having this feature any more! Your main menu is on the left side of the screen. Nothing wrong with that. Month 2, you decide to use the Carryover feature: $400 budgeted, $600 spent. It will also carry over into the next month, YNAB calls this aging your money. YNAB is working in a forward manner in regards to the budget system. These helpful steps will walk you through setting up your budget template. But the budgeting methodology took a hard turn towards mandating that everyone budget like they are living paycheck to paycheck. As before, no splitting across months. Those are funds, and yes, they would carry over to the next month. I hear everyone who says the Red Arrow in v4 was wrong and people were abusing it. Because that is what is happening in the real world. The YNAB version I used when getting started did not have goals. If you categorize medical spending then you will know how much you spent on medical. Tomato Cobra There is a Quick Budget option to budget the same amount as the previous month. But if I travel during the last week of the month and don’t get reimbursed until next month, YNAB can’t handle this. I really like YNAB, but would like it better if it had a more flexible feature set. I will not allow myself to  overspend a category on credit cards and carry debt casually. I told you that YNAB saves a copy of your old budget! These forums are all the proof you need that there are lots of different preferences over how people want to use the system. You should be proud! That way, you have 100% of the cash for the whole month on the first of the month. The tool seems to be forcing me to answer the question "what do I need these dollars to do before I get paid again, but not beyond the end of the month?" You can budget all new money into the current month's area whenever you receive it if you like. And that shift in perspective really frightened me about the web version of YNAB. Or let’s say I prefer to change the budget group currently titled “HOUSING” to “YO MOMMA’S HOUSE.” Easy peasy. Follow YNAB to get support and lots of great ideas on budgeting, YNAB converted the whole overspend into credit card debt when the month rolled over. As an aside, the latter issue can be solved by introducing an auxiliary tracking account to keep the total. I used Mint for a year and a half and all I had to show for it was a dozen accounts I didn't need (for goals, don'tcha know) and a mess, because it doesn't allow/force you to roll with the punches. This inconsistency leads to errors. It's silly - I know how much I earn, I know how much I want to spend on clothes in a year - YNAB won't let me allocate that money month to month with any flexibility (unless I create debt with a credit card rather than my own capital???). Been waiting 5 years for the Stealing From the Future fix... YNAB book topics online: https://support.youneedabudget.com/r/q5w48j, I have the honor to be your obedient servant, Not sure when I became a cheetah...but I'll run with it. (This will have a negative balance.) It’s not just software, but a philosophy and method that will shift your budgeting paradigm. I complained, they're not going to change the formula, so now I get to save my money on Coke Zero. I move the funds from another category to cover every overspend in the month it occurs. Am I missing something/ Like Follow 3. Releasing the money in July in order to budget it to the exact same category in August is unnecessary. Click that to open up the month navigator. Then you have a large negative number in the Budgeted column but it's fine, it just means you changed your mind. champagne_dame If you paid cash for tuition, that cash is obviously not available for use elsewhere, so adjusting the "plan" (aka budget) to reflect that makes a lot of sense (especially for substantial amounts). Whether you want to move on from a starter budget, your life and priorities have changed, your (ahem) budgeting habits went south, or you just want a new view of your money (old budgets can be full of old habits, after all), try a Fresh Start. In July I put $100 in it, then spent $50 from that envelope. bevocat there's a generic Coke zero?!? The key to getting a month ahead is prioritizing. I'm paid once a month at the end of the month, so I used my July paycheque to fully fund all my August categories, so I have no orange. (Again, this is not just an issue with installment loans. If you didn't have money in the medical category, you spent cash meant for something else so it isn't there. There's another workflow with tracking accounts that we don't need because reimbursables are rare in our lives at the moment. At this point, you need to record your payment and update the tracking account. You never carry a balance. The elimination of this timing concern greatly simplifies things. The budgeted column makes the act of budgeting faster, and gives a reference point in case you made a mistake moving money, but that's its only purpose. It's too late to do anything about it now.). YNAB gives you two options when you overspend in a category. YNAB has built-in tools — Scheduled Transactions and Goals — that will help you plan for this month, and all the months to come. (How that debt came to be is immaterial at this point.). You mentioned that the negative numbers are fine. When all was said and done in January, there was just $25 left in the budget. bevocat Okay, thanks. But you might be a little nervous, because you’re stepping into the great unknown. Coke Zero became Coke Zero Sugar a while back, but the caffeine-free version took a little while to run out and have them start stocking the new formula. This is how YNAB helps you avoid debt: it tells you “You spent some ): Enter a name for your new budget and click “Continue,” and you’ll be whisked away to your brand-new budget. Tomato Cobra OK, I'll do my best. , lindsay_g I read "vodka and ice cream"! Every dollar needs a (single) job to do, and carrying over overspending means the money in your actual accounts has to do multiple jobs: do whatever you've assigned them to do… You rock. Perhaps, I just need to get over it, but I'd like to find an effective way to budget my money by pay cycle that doesn't make me feel anxious in the process. 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