Money & cash flow

The Spending Plan — five buckets

Five explicit sections — Income, Bills, Planned Spend, Other Spend, Savings Goals — each with its own planned total and tracked actual. The hero is “Free to spend” — a master cap your discretionary spending draws down.

The Spending Plan is five explicit sections, not one rolled-up budget: Income, Bills (debt minimums included), Planned Spend, Other Spend, and Savings Goals. Each states its own planned total and its tracked actual — no section is computed from another.

The screen leads with one headline, Free to spend, painted over an allocation bar with a waterline — the line where committed money ends and free money begins. It is an intent figure: your income minus everything the plan has already spoken for.

Free to spend = income − bills − debt minimums − Planned-Spend caps − goals

It subtracts each cap's limit, not what you've spent in that cap — so it reflects what you plannedto commit, and it can go negative if your commitments outrun this month's income.

That budgeted figure is also your master cap. As the month's discretionary spending lands — your Other Spend, plus anything you spend over a cap's limit — the hero shows a spent-of-budgeted bar beneath it: how much of your free money you've used, and what's left. Spend past the budget and it turns red — "$X over your free budget." Your commitments (bills, cap limits, goals) stay reserved; only real discretionary spend draws it down.

SectionPlanned totalTracked actual
IncomeEach pay occurrence this monthDeposits matched
BillsRecurring bills + debt minimumsBills paid
Planned SpendSum of your cap limitsSpent against each cap
Other SpendDraws from FreeEverything uncapped & unplanned
Savings GoalsMonthly contributionsContributed
Other Spend has no cap of its own — but it draws down your Free to spend. It catches the money you didn't plan — uncapped, unlinked transactions — and that spend (along with any cap overspend) comes out of your free budget. A slice that needs its own limit belongs in Planned Spend (a cap), where the plan reserves for it directly.

Income and Bills read this month's actual occurrences, not a smoothed monthly average. A month with three paydays reads higher than a two-payday month — the plan shows the cash that actually lands in the calendar you're looking at, not an evened-out figure.

"Free to spend" is not your plan contribution.This screen no longer shows a single "deployable surplus" figure. A plan's per-period contribution is a separate derived number on the Plan surface. The two share the same four buckets (income − bills − caps − goals), so they match in definition— but not in value: Free to spend uses this month's actual occurrences and can be negative, while the plan contribution is a steady-state annual average floored at 0. They diverge in any non-average month.
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