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Using a smartphone app, entering the transaction isn't really such a pain. Just bought a pretzel, 12 secs later I had it entered in the app. What I want in con
by sveme 9y ago
Using a smartphone app, entering the transaction isn't really such a pain. Just bought a pretzel, 12 secs later I had it entered in the app.
What I want in contrast is a way of tracking complex expenses like supermarket receipts, maybe via OCR and automatic aggregation and categorization of items, even across different supermarkets. Preferably via app. That way I could check which items I should buy where and which items are the most demanding on my monthly budget. Any su
- mgkimsal 9y agothere's lots of transactions people have happen automatically - rent, utilities, etc.
- mcintyre1994 9y agoIn YNAB at least, all of those can be scheduled as recurring and you only have to mark them cleared when they've happened.
- mgkimsal 9y agorent would probably make sense. my utilities change each month, so "recurring" as an event makes sense, but not the amount.
- craftyguy 9y agoUtilities costs are almost always variable, so it would still require manually entering them in.
- ocfx 9y agoThere is value in manually entering these values as it forces you to process how much was spent and it only takes a couple seconds.