These figures are the month named, counting only what is still ahead — they match that row in the forecast exactly. Nothing is averaged and nothing is assumed. Your first month will read small, because most of it already happened and is sitting in your bank balance. From the next month it reads in full.
Checking, savings, PayPal, cash in a drawer — anywhere your money already sits. They add up to the total every forecast starts from.
Nothing here yet. Add one for money that moves between your own accounts on a schedule — payday into savings, say.
Money you move to savings is not spending — it never leaves your total, so it does not belong in Bills. Put it here instead and the savings line grows while the forecast stays honest.
Everything you spend belongs here, not just bills — groceries, gas, eating out. Leaving those out makes the forecast wrong in your favour, which is the dangerous direction to be wrong in. For spending with no fixed day, choose spread through month and it lands evenly instead of pretending it all leaves on the 1st.
Nothing here yet. Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and the rest go here — they are easy to forget because they never feel like debt.
Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay and the rest. They are easy to forget because they never feel like debt — so they get their own box.
Nothing here yet. Add a card or loan and it will be ranked by interest rate on the Debt payoff tab.
Anything above your minimum payments. By default it goes at your highest-interest debt first, then rolls onto the next as each one dies — which is the cheapest order there is. Pick a different one and the payoff tab will tell you exactly what that choice costs.
| Month | In | Bills | Debt | Net | Cash left |
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| Pay in this order | Balance | APR | Min | Interest / mo | Gone in | Settlement saving |
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Tick what is yours. Every figure is editable — change them to what you actually pay, and rename anything that does not fit.