Budgets
Spending limits, what counts, overlap rules, alerts, and pausing without losing history.
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What a budget does for you
A budget caps spending for chosen accounts, and categories or tags, over a period — only expenses count, and matching transactions update progress automatically.
Setting up a budget
Give your budget a name, a color, and an icon so it's easy to spot at a glance. Choose the currency you want to track it in and set your…
Finding your way around the Budgets page
At a glance, you'll see totals across all your budgets — how much you've allotted, how much you've spent, and how many are active. To find…
Creating your first budget
Create a budget with a name, limit, currency, dates, and the accounts, categories or tags that should count — then let matching expenses update progress automatically.
Setting up a budget that renews itself
Switch on Recurring and tell it how many periods to run for. Each period tracks its own spending from a clean slate — a fresh period never…
Keeping your budgets from stepping on each other
Rasa Money won't let you create two budgets that cover the exact same accounts, categories, tags, and time period, since a transaction can only…
Getting a heads-up when you're close to your limit
You'll automatically get notified — both in the app and by email — once you've used up 80% of a budget, and again if you go over it…
Taking a break from a budget without losing your data
If you want to stop tracking a budget for a while without deleting it, pause it — new transactions simply won't be matched to it until you…
Adjusting a budget after it's set up
You're free to rename a budget, change its color or icon, or add more categories to it whenever you like. The one thing you can't change…
Reading your budget's progress at a glance
A green badge means you're comfortably under 80% spent, amber means you're between 80–100%, and red means you've gone over. Keep an eye on…
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