This would create new transactions that I could classify between Vaults and categories. EDIT: as for whether Rent (or Entertainment or Transportation or whatever) is X% of your income, what does that matter? I suppose the success of YNAB comes from being prepared for dollar amounts in specific jobs, not percentages of income in specific jobs. ; I live in a major urban area where a car is a liability, so I sold that 25 years ago; my health insurance covers every penny of my medical needs, for any meds and for any unexpected medical expense. YNAB, or You Need A Budget, is Canadian budgeting software that comes at a pretty steep fee of either $84 a year or $11 a month. I really like your idea of having a chart for Budgeted and Available. But the other reality is that the money has a reason for being in the savings account. If you use a credit card, it's important to select the Credit Card account type because of how these accounts work in your budget. I've always found this odd. Now is all that money in my savings account? Note: You can also add non-budget accounts called “Tracking” accounts. Wow. Other features are similar. I don't see one in your screenshot, but if you have an Emergency Fund category move money from your other categories to get that $1,000 total. And if I transfer the funds, how to I assign an Emergency category? There was a problem submitting your feedback. The dollars in Budget Accounts are included in your budget (which you can tell from our super-clever naming scheme). All I can come up with for a "job" for these funds is UNKNOWN. The major problem I have with a category rather than a transfer to an account is that I can't assign a category to a transfer. Today, I’m going to walk you through what these account types are for, and talk about why you might do better to just ignore them! None of the individual balances on any of my accounts equal any set of categories because the location of my money has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose of my money. I would probably end up filtering long-term savings categories out of the graph, and just have it show monthly allocations/available for daily spending. I appreciate your feedback. You have two different YNAB options for tracking your investments. PayPal accounts are a great example: if you have a PayPal account where you receive, store, and spend funds, choose Checking or Cash. When I buy something with the cash I record it as a transaction/transfer. YNAB (You Need A Budget) ... You can manage your bank accounts, track your income and outgoings, set budgets and forecast your future financial position with ease. dakinemaui Was just coming to say this, thanks, I’ll show myself out now. You Need A Budget - or YNAB for short - is personal finance software that allows users to manage their funds without needing access to months of historical data. It gives a more far-sighted analysis and warns you before things go out of your hand. Perhaps my lack of imagination, but to what end? If you're moving funds between accounts, check out this article on transferring money next. That's not a problem. I'm sorry to be so clueless about this and I appreciate you sticking with me. When the automatic transfer from checking to an on-budget savings account occurs, when and how do I assign a category? Move Light Sound Life dakinemaui Nerds! . Is it your loss of income pot? But it could go on my credit card if I happen to do a CVS run tomorrow at lunch. Is there a way to "turn off" the savings balance in an on-budget account, so those $$ don't show as available? When budget entries are driven solely by priority, scope, and expense timeline things are simpler. EveryDollar has basic and automated versions of its budgeting apps. I will put 100% of the cost of the HVAC replacement on my credit card. And, the available column alone shows what's remaining in your spending categories. © Overbudgeting should be added to the moon in both graphs, and labeled "fake money" with some directive about how to fix it. Likewise, if I have to replace my tires, the tire company isn't going to charge me based on my income. Please clarify. I have always wanted a pie chart of my current budget allocations and available. YNAB was perfect for fitting all the puzzle pieces together tightly to avoid waste and maximize priorities. Best practice is described above: budget savings, use savings accounts on budget, and separate categories from accounts. My version of the implementation would involve being able to classify a category group as "Savings" or "Internal". You can see how your accounts are set up in the left sidebar: Remember, the dollars in your Budget Accounts is included in your Budget (so you can Give Every Dollar a Job), but the money in your Tracking Accounts is not included in your budget (since you're just tracking those accounts' balances). Yes, it's "label" is going to be "MyMove" but I do NOT want to see it in my budget app. These accounts should also include credit accounts from which you spend, so they're included in your budget as well. Based on such a graph, you can take action to adjust budget entries. Even denoting it as previously saved money that had a change of priority seems really complex. YNAB is unlike any personal finance app, expense tracker, or money management system you’ve tried before, because it is based on our proven method— YNAB’s Four Rules. Or do I budget $1000 for it this month and then it'll just stay there forever until I use it? Move Light Sound Life you're right, I should have said actuals plus nominals, with the actuals typically being negative. If I move my Savings Account on-budget then I can no longer use the reports to see what percent of my budget is allocated to saving. That might be to pay my mortgage in 3 weeks or to pay for a new roof in 13 years. Essentially, this new report would be the same as the current spending totals charts except, it would insert a slice for Category groups flagged as Savings/Internal and instead of reporting on "spending" it would reflect available funds. Working towards a normalized budget will help you feel like you can confidently fund those categories sufficiently. There could be one for available, and one for budgeted this month. Now that I've learned the method, I don't think something that represents that information as it is on the budget page is contrary to the method, and could be helpful to see the current state of affairs. By the way, Buffer, Emergency Fund, and other rainy day funds ( as they used to be called ) are all examples of budgeting categories that you would assign dollars to that you didn't really spend out of frequently (hopefully!). eloquentz As I said, I am now thinking of it as an emergency fund. One caveat is that the number reported for available savings should always be positive. They aren't interchangeable though! That $1,000 will sit in your Emergency Fund until the day comes when you need it. How do I reckon that $1000 as emergency fund within my budget now that I'm in the middle of a month and not starting out? Then assign those dollars to those categories. Thanks for making me think about it again. What has become evident here is that I think of this savings account as an emergency fund -- DO NOT TOUCH THIS, JOE -- and having it out of the way, rather than still sitting in a visible account whose balance is lumped in with my available spending cash, is contrary to what I see as its "job.". Credit Card (typically used for everyday spending), Line of Credit (a flexible loan from a bank that you can access as needed and repay either immediately or over time). And the budget doesn't care! Don't make your savings off-budget. I've done reasonably well managing our budget over the years. The Relationship Between Your Budget & Your Accounts: It’s Complicated. Ivory Stallion In YNAB, you're welcome to transfer money among various accounts, but that has no bearing on the "job" it's being saved for. But when all of the accounts are on budget, the transfers between accounts have no categories. Fungible means that the electronic representation of $1 in an online savings account … As someone just getting started with YNAB, it is useful so to see what priorities are articulated by my budget versus my actions. I could reach my initial target balance by routinely savings and grow complacent, but if I'm accustomed to looking at a report and feeling proud that 40% of my income goes to savings goals then I'll adjust my goal and continue so that I don't have a month where my savings plummet down to 15% because I hit my target goal. They are accounts that typically have a positive balance because they're where you store money. What Rule 2 means is to break down your non-immediate expenses, the money you wouldn't necessarily keep in a checking account, and budget the money into categories. I was thinking in absolute values with the verbiage indicating function, like saying spent $500 doesn't have a negative sign. So, if you have a long-term saving category group that is not flagged as a savings group, then the chart would only represent spending from the associated categories. Handling credit cards and debts with YNAB is … Tracking (Asset or Liability) For example, if you have Euro Checking and Savings accounts, you would only need to create one difference account (Debit). This could also provide some needed gamification to build savings in a more realistic way than AOM (mentioned on another post). As-is bringing my Savings account on budget makes it impossible to graphically see how much money in a particular month has been allocated or set aside for Savings. Especially if you reallocate before spending. What am I missing out by not having it be on budget? And really, it might be nice to have them show up in the inspector (when no categories are selected) so that I could flip through the months and watch it change. If I move $100 from the available balance of the rainy day fund to cover overspending elsewhere, then the Allocation chart for the month should continue to show 0, not -100. Get this down to $0 so your budget is viable!" After that, I transfer X to the Savings account (no category allowed, but it has already been taken care of.). How would I show that account balance growing unless I transfer the funds? I'll transfer the account to on-budget for now, but seriously: How do I assign a job to dollars that have no job? Hey, don't get old. In the basic version, transaction details have to be entered manually, while the automated … If you keep those accounts off-budget, then moving money to the savings account looks like spending in your budget. YNAB Features When you set up your YNAB account, you’ll be able to sync your accounts for automatic data import. Transfers aren't allowed to have categories (except between off-budget accounts.) IF, when you go to pay any bill (for example, the credit card bill to pay for your new HVAC) you transfer cash from Savings to Checking, THEN spend it (and categorize the transaction accordingly) WHY is it so important that the Savings account be on-budget? The amount of money in your categories is defined by your priorities for your money. I certainly don't "spend" from my savings account. With both services, you can create budgets, and track your expenses from the credit card and bank accou… Identifying a lower priority category category with funds to take (or recognizing there's not one) really cements an understanding of one's inner/true priorities. The following are the factors that can decide which budget app is best for you: … I'm going to do it the way JoeDid in the beginning because it works for me. I just moved that savings to a tracking account, so that misleading total available (in my case) is now correct, but I wonder why the advice given to someone else was to move the savings to on budget. YNAB’s method teaches you to give every dollar a job, and that includes your savings dollars—pretty much the opposite of letting your dollars lounge around in a cushy savings account without purpose. I kept seeing all my savings account monies in the "to be budgeted." Also, my money is scattered across multiple banks for security reasons. If you find you're not able to maintain that because other things keep popping up, maybe those other things need to be included in your normal plan as well. However, … youneedabudget.com Because I wasn't funded on my true expenses yet, I was unable to completely fund my categories to where I wanted them. There are numerous budgeting and expense tracking apps out there, some free and some paid for and you may need to try a few before you find the one that fits your lifestyle and way of … I set them up in YNAB as two separate accounts: Bank’s Name Cash (tracking) and Bank’s Name Brokerage (investment). I think that's the opposite of what you said? What we are saying is that there is a big benefit to changing the way you are thinking about this. It would be nice if there were a report that presented a pie chart of your budget and not only your spending. Early on, I would find it useful to contrast my expressed priorities with my habits so that I can better align my budget to reflect reality or my habits to align them with my priorities. So now, what this does is, it gives me the account so I can keep track of the balance while the account itself is not gonna add money to my budget. This would filter out available funds from previous months and only show what you've saved during the current period, side by side with what you spent across your non-savings categories. I'm new, and this thread has been extremely clarifying. Reading some of your replies makes me realize my situation is much less complicated than yours. And if you budgeted $100 to the Forgotten Stuff category on the 1st, but moved $20 to another category to support the thing that forgotten, would you want $80 or $100 to show in that report? We want to transfer money to savings accounts and track balances through YNAB…what are we missing? WordTenor  Duh! So, it remains valid that they can be on budget and not meant to be spent. That goes back to my analogy of moving a $5 bill from your left pocket to your right pocket. Since the balances in these accounts don't impact your budget, you  don't need to add any of them. Keep it simple - The easiest way to do this is to create an investment category in your budget and make your contribution. If you don't need those benefits, then you are absolutely correct that one only needs one account, because your categories sequester the money for you. Another way to represent that could be using a two-layer pie chart, where one ring shows budgeted proportions, while the other compares shows spending activity and available savings. Can I somehow set $1000 as the goal for that budget category and say that it has been filled? But I doubt that 100% of the cost will come out of my savings account as I should be able to have most of it already in my checking account by not sending any money from my February paychecks to one of the savings accounts like I usually do. As I see it, ALL categories are savings. Bottom line is that the current reports are all based on spending, and if you try to game the system by putting savings off-budget to include them in the spending reports, not only are you creating a lot of extra work for you, but those same reports still won't quite be accurate and will get messed up when it's time to use the money. In a perfect budget, all spending categories would be zero so a graphical representation would only show savings. Tiller Money. But don't tie yourself in knots making sure that the balance in your savings account equals the balance in a specific grouping of categories. I put it there as my emergency fund and didn't think it was being factored into my budget. That needs to happen regardless of whether the transfer has a category assigned or not. Did you read the blog post I linked to earlier? This is a really helpful thread. Not for job loss (I'm retired, with a guaranteed income for life); I rent: landlord pays water, heat and air, fixes whatever breaks, replaces appliances, etc. "That needs to happen regardless of whether the transfer has a category assigned or not.". Isn't the budget itself that very report? Similarly, a string of positives means you're either spending less or frequently robbing it. It would be, as an increase in the spending category that you moved funds to compensate for - let's say Groceries. JoeDid Except that the dollars DO have a purpose. The Allocation chart for the current month should show $0 for the Rainy Day category. When you add an account in YNAB, you'll notice that there are two types of accounts to choose from: Budget Accounts and Tracking Accounts. It's possible that what I'm looking for would be better incorporated as a Toolkit Report. What are the pros/cons of savings accounts as budget or tracking? dakinemaui , you're right that the alignment happens over time, but as-is there is no report that graphically represents that trend. But you can if you want to—there are two options: While activity in budget accounts will appear in all three reports — Spending, Income v Expense, and Net Worth — tracking account activity appears only in the Net Worth report. Figure out the purpose of the money and all will become clear. I suppose all positive changes to budgeted values could go in the planet pie, and all negative changes could go in the moon pie. To me, that's the same as right pocket=checking; left pocket=savings/buffer/emerg. This is great if you have more than one savings account or credit card. Under the “Add Account” menu in YNAB, you may have noticed the tracking account options: Asset accounts and Liability accounts. But I think it would greatly reduce the feeling of scarcity most people get from a YNAB budget. Coming clean, I've only been using YNAB <1 month so my views could change. You’ll also want to enter your current account balance. Money is "saved" in YNAB by assigning To Be Budgeted money to a category and then not spending it. It … Saving with a purpose is better. Savings are treated differently since they track available balance rather than spending. It took me a while to understand why savings should be on budget, but now that I get it, I switched them back on budget. I’ve tried different … I suppose the success of YNAB comes from being prepared for dollar amounts in specific jobs, not percentages of income in specific jobs. Savings are treated differently since they track available balance rather than spending. so my budget accounts it will still look like spending. I agree; although, I don't think the idea is contrary to the YNAB methodology either since the Spending report already reflects your category groups are percentages. I couldn't understand why the inspector panel kept telling me I had a lot more $$ available to budget than I thought I did. Follow YNAB to get support and lots of great ideas on budgeting, You will still need to create the transfer transactions in your accounts so the account balances match reality. It really does take a moment to understand the idea of not tying accounts to categories. Some time this week, I'll break that $20 and use $5 as a tip when I get a pedi I think, but can't guarantee. Sudden house repairs? With two accounts, a Savings and Checking account, there is the added hassle of moving money from Savings to Checking. 2021. 5 You Need a Budget (YNAB) Alternatives - Best Wallet Hacks You just aren't separating the purpose from the location in your mind. This may be true for other budgeting apps and not specific to YNAB. It promises to help you pay off debt, save more money and create a flexible budget that makes it … However, if you have a PayPal Credit account, you would choose Line of Credit. Now, … Isn't the point of savings accounts to take that money out of your spending rotation and save it? When I set up my structure, following that advice, I set up one of my savings accounts as on budget. In fact it’s vital to good financial health!YNAB is a great tool which you can use in South Africa. :). Adding these accounts to your budget allows you to track their balance (we told you we were clever at naming things!). Which Is Better Ynab vs EveryDollar? If you have a PayPal Credit Card, you would choose Credit Card. You probably have multiple accounts to track, and if you are married, you have various people spending and earning money. With YNAB your savings doesn't depend on what account it is in. It doesn't seem like you have much use of an emergency fund, so maybe you don't even need it. Creating an accurate, updated budget is challenging. What circumstances allow you to draw on those funds? I'd find it motivating to see the savings section of my report shrink because of overspending. Is my understanding correct, or is there another way to view the breakdown I've described with the savings on-budget? I'd also be motivated to continue saving overtime. An important distinction between the two budgeting apps is that Mint offers investment and credit score tracking, while YNAB does not. They are what they are. It seems that most people don't read or think about where their statistics come from (as evidenced by the people concerned with AOM), so I want to make sure the ideas are cohesive and not misleading before I submit. And while we're at it, if you simply use PayPal as a faster way to checkout and send/receive money in your other accounts, you don't even need to add it at all! It might be the right fit for you. How will this report clarify things or bring guidance? You can connect bank accounts, set goals, contribute to savings and customize spending categories. Ivory Stallion I like the idea of pie charts or bar graphs to visually represent the state of the budget . If I add up all the money in all my accounts, it has now gone down by $80, but it doesn't actually matter which account took that hit. What you plan to do with the money doesn't change, just where it's located. For example, last month I budgeted and saved $1,000 in the rainy day category. The light finally lit up. I can see how using YNAB over time can lead to normalization, where very little shifts. More I'm thinking about this, more I realize that in my case, off budget makes the most sense. With its main focus being budget first, spend later – you'll still need to play around with your budget before you can set-it … My Answer: It all comes down two things: money is fungible; it’s the Category balances, not the Account balances, that determine the purpose or intention of each pile of money; Money is Fungible. A string of negatives is highly suggestive of under-budgeting. The desktop software and mobile app both do a great job of allowing you to track your streams of income. I can't figure out how to do this, Maroon Drum Good! jenmas I found this post after a search. I think I have convinced myself that a Savings/Budgeted report is not good. When budget amounts are fluctuating because of income timing or "borrowing", there's naturally going to be increased focus on those particular amounts. But say I just want to spend $80 from my car repair savings category to get my oil changed and my tires rotated. That makes it impossible to reconcile the account with the bank, which I do every month. . Sure for something like an HVAC replacement, you might need to make a transfer, because that's loads of money. Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. It is your "emergency fund". Where do I click on the budget screen? YNAB puts you in control of your budget and encourages you to set spending and savings … This month I did not budget anything, but I still have 1K available from last month. Empower. You don't. The way I use YNAB, I'm never "spending" from my savings categories, and if there are no transactions then those funds are totally omitted from the reports. It's not like the $20 in my wallet has "2pm Diet Coke Emergency" written on it in Sharpie even though it is likely that's where some of it will go. If I move $100 from the available balance of the rainy day fund to cover overspending elsewhere, then the Allocation chart for the month should continue to show 0, not -100. feeling proud that 40% of my income goes to savings goals, users want to see how much they're diverting to savings. If you don't know what it is you're saving for, then might I suggest giving that some thought? This could be an interesting thing for toolkit people to play with, kind of like the "Balance Over Time" report - it's interesting to look at, but I don't really see a purpose. Early on, I would find it useful to contrast my expressed priorities with my habits so that I can better align my budget to reflect reality or align my habits with my priorities. This means all the dollars in your budget need jobs—it doesn’t matter if that job is immediate, a few months from now, or years down the road. That needs to happen regardless of whether the transfer has a category assigned or not. YNAB defaults savings accounts to be "budget" rather than "tracking" accounts. Move Light , I hear your point about wanting to filter out long-term savings stuff. I FINALLY get the concept. I finally realized it was including the savings balance. Moving the money back and forth becomes a budgeting/categorizing/reporting nightmare. I get it now, thanks! So rather than a Spending chart, it becomes a breakdown or allocation chart. This happens naturally when reallocating (ala Rule 3). If you don't need it, why is it sitting in a savings account and not working for you? The account the money lives in is only determined by where/how you need to access/store money. The report reflects spending activity and available savings. I've had the money saved up for months but don't plan to do the replacement until March. But I'm still trying to figure out the status of the $1,000 in my savings account right now. It costs what it costs, and lower priority demands on your money have to compete for the remainder of your income excluding that amount. Maroon Drum Hey, Maroon, this is probably the wrong thread in which to ask that question, given that the consensus here (to which I now adhere) is that savings accounts should be on budget. For me, doesn't it make sense to keep that account as a tracking (off-budget) account, since I don't want to include its balance in my available? Your medical emergency pot? Move Light Sound Life Exactly, dakinemaui , it is a graphical representation of the budget screen. It's a curiosity but non-actionable. Otherwise, the numbers will be unbalanced. As I often mention in my posts, it’s really important to budget and to track your expenses. The report should compare what the user budgeted with what they truly did as a snapshot in time. I'll have to think about this more before I put in a feature request. 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