Thanks, your response if helpful. Maybe I don't need an "Initial Dough" bucket (although I'm still not too clear on that). However, it still doesn't address the main issue I raised; perhaps I didn't make that issue clear; perhaps you or someone could read over my initial post again.
You said the "Save Allocation" button creates the "Money Flows." Great, but what good does that do if I don't have a means to flow the money from my spending buckets into my expense buckets? How do I do that? Dragging to each bucket one at a time? That doesn't make sense to me. Every time I make a deposit I have to drag to 15 or so different buckets, one at a time, in order to allocate that month's income? On Jun 3, 9:27 am, Druzyne <drew.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 2, 9:43 pm, Chuck B <cbregistrat...@me.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm a new user whose spent several hours with the tutorials, help > > files, FAQ, and setting everything up, but I still don't quite seem to > > get it. > > > I've made several income buckets because I have several sources of > > income and I'd like to track each in the future as new money comes in. > > At the same time, since I'm starting out and don't yet have new > > deposits to put into my income buckets yet, I have the total amount of > > money of my starting balances in my combined bank accounts that I've > > put into an odd income bucket that I called "Initial Dough" that I > > want now to flow into my expense buckets according to my spending > > plan, which I've created. To do that, I assume that I click on the > > Allocate Income button. But doing that just opens the allocate Income > > dialogue box, which has a button to "Save Allocation," but no button > > to flow the allocation to my expense buckets, as I'd expect. I don't > > get this. Shouldn't I be able to automatically flow the money out of > > my income bucket to all the expense buckets as I indicated in my > > spending plan? > > The "Save Allocation" button will create all the Money Flows you have > set up in your Spending Plan. I think you were just tripped up by the > wording... > > Also, your "Initial Dough" bucket might be unnecessary. There won't be > any transactions tied to your initial Cash Flow amount, so it could > really go into any bucket. The only place it would show up is in the > Money Flows for your buckets. It sounds like you're more concerned > about tracking deposits with the buckets, so maybe you could eliminate > this bucket? > > //Drew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to no-thirst-software@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to no-thirst-software+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
