r/zerosumappbudget

Tag Discussion

How do you guys personally utilize tags? I am looking for some inspiration. :) I just use it right now to primarily tag which transactions are during which of my pay periods. So I have 1 tag for Pay Period 1, another for Pay Period 2, and then a tag for "Paid" for my credit cards so I can keep track of which transactions are paid off.

I feel like I am missing out on some cool ways to tag things, though; would love to hear ideas!

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u/SollusX — 4 days ago

🧭 v1.10.7: Your Accounts in the Collapsed Sidebar, Notifications for Every Budget You Share

Your accounts now stay with you when you collapse the sidebar. They follow the way you've folded them, with your review badges in view. Alongside it: choose which budgets send you notifications, including ones shared with you; analytics that compare the same days and give your charts more room; and recurring edits that keep this month's bill in this month.

🧭 A sidebar that keeps your accounts

  • New: your accounts in the collapsed sidebar. Collapsing the sidebar on a computer no longer hides your accounts. Each one shows as its image, logo, emoji or initial, with its sync and review badges. Hover over one, or Tab to it, to see its name and balance, and right-click it for the same actions as before.
  • New: folded stays folded. Sections and account groups you fold in the full sidebar fold in the collapsed one too, as a single tile showing their first accounts and how many transactions are waiting for review. Click the tile, or the icon on a section's divider, to unfold it.
  • Favorites appear once. While Favorites is open, your favorite accounts sit at the top and aren't repeated below. Fold Favorites and they go back to their own sections.
  • Manage payees and Manage tags are back in the budget menu. The command palette (Cmd/Ctrl + K) also opens them directly, along with Accounts, All Transactions and Bank Sync.

→ Keyboard Shortcuts

🔔 Notifications for the budgets you choose

  • New: choose which budgets send you review notifications. Settings → Privacy and device → Notifications has a switch for every budget you own or were invited to, and your choices are the same on all your devices. Budgets you own start on; budgets shared with you start off, so your partner can now turn on notifications for your joint budget. Each person chooses for themselves.
  • Improved: notifications name your budgets. When more than one budget notifies you, the notification lists each one with how many transactions are waiting there.

→ Settings

📊 Analytics that compare like with like

  • Changed: Period Comparison compares the same days. Early in the month, it now compares this month so far with the same days of last month (Oct 1–11 against Sep 1–11), just like the Overview's Spent This Month. Prefer the whole month? Choose All of last month under Compare spending with in the widget's settings.
  • Improved: one View button per chart. Grouping, chart style, visibility and the forecast horizon moved into a compact View button at the right of each chart's header, so the chart gets the room. On your phone it opens as a sheet. To customize the analytics bar, use the cog next to New dashboard in More.
  • Improved: more of Income Breakdown opens transactions. Expense groups and categories now open the transactions behind them, like income sources already did, with refunds, split lines and pending bank rows counted correctly. The details that sat below the chart are now under View → List.
  • Changed: Exclude current month keeps the whole range. Last 3, 6 and 12 Months with Exclude current month now cover that many complete months, so Last 6 Months matches your budget's 6-month average. A new budget averages over the months it has.
  • Improved: your chart choices stick. These now survive a reload:
    • Year over Year's Spending, Income or Net;
    • what Income Breakdown shows;
    • the phone Income vs Expense's Month, Average or Total, and its In & out, Net or Rate chart.

→ Analytics & Reports

🔁 Recurring edits that keep this month

  • Fixed: changing the day could skip a month. Moving a monthly bill from the 15th to the 10th now makes the next one Nov 10 instead of Dec 10, unless Nov 10 has already passed. Weekly and yearly series work the same way.
  • New: see the next occurrence before you save. When you edit a series, Next occurrence updates as you change its schedule.
  • Fixed: moving an occurrence past the series' end date. The series now ends and keeps that transaction as a one-off, instead of leaving it impossible to edit or delete. Undo brings the series back.

→ Scheduled & recurring transactions

🧮 Smaller things

  • Fixed: arrowing through scheduled transactions in a register no longer jumps the page to the top. It scrolls only when your selection reaches the edge.

→ Bank Sync

As always, thank you for the feedback that shaped this one. 💙

u/austinmrs — 4 days ago

Account shortcuts in collapsed sidebar - Option to Toggle

Just some feedback, I love the app and 99% of the changes are spot on!

I woke up to the new look of the collapsed sidebar (desktop). 🤔

I'm sure many users will love the quick account access but I'd rather keep a minimalistic sidebar.

Having a scrolling pane in the collapsed sidebar is a bit too much for me (small laptop screen...).

An option to toggle the visibility of these buttons would be nice, IMHO.

Just my two cents! ⭐️

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u/Zeta-Salvator — 6 days ago

🏠 v1.10.5: Choose Your Home Page, New Overview Widgets, One-Tap Review

Zerosum now opens where you want it to. Choose the page Zerosum opens on and the tabs on your phone's bottom bar. Alongside it: two new Overview widgets, one-tap review on your phone, filters that stay with each register, and a fix for scheduled transfers.

🏠 Your home page, your tab bar

  • New: choose your home page. Budget, Calendar, Accounts, All Transactions, Overview, or Analytics. Zerosum opens there when you launch it or sign in, and when you switch budgets. Set it in Settings → Preferences → Home page.
  • New: customize your phone's tab bar. Your home page comes first and More stays last. In between, pick up to three tabs and drag them into order from Settings → Preferences → Mobile tab bar → Customize. It replaces the Mobile dock shortcut, and your bar stays as it is until you change it.
  • The + Transaction button follows you home. On your phone, it now also shows on your home page.

→ Settings

📊 More from your Overview

  • New: Category Watch. Your favorite categories with the same progress bars and status as your budget. Tap one to open it in the budget. It's part of the default layout; if you've customized yours, add it from Add Widget.
  • New: Accounts widget. Your cash accounts and credit cards with totals, plus whether each card's payment is covered. Add it from Add Widget.
  • Improved: a fair spending comparison. Spent This Month now compares with the same point last month, so early in the month it no longer looks like a big drop. Prefer the old way? Choose All of last month under Compare spending with in the Snapshot's settings.
  • New: see which bills aren't covered. Upcoming marks scheduled transactions whose category can't cover them as Not covered, and totals what's going out and coming in.
  • Attention chips open the budget filtered. The overspent and underbudgeted chips open your budget with that filter on, so the categories that need you are right there.

→ Overview Page

✅ Review faster on your phone

  • New: one-tap Approve. Review cards are a single row with an Approve button. Swipe right to approve or left to reject.
  • Simpler Pending at bank. No more buttons on each row: tap to open, swipe right to enter it now, or swipe left to reject.

→ Reviewing transactions

🔍 Registers that remember

  • New: filters stay with each register. Every account and All Transactions keep their own search, filters, and preset on this device.
  • Changed: To Review has its own filters. Leave it with Done and your register's filters come back.
  • Your forecast window syncs. How far ahead forecasts show now follows you across devices, in the register and on the Overview's Upcoming card.
  • Fixed: Tab past an empty payee. In All Transactions, Tab now moves on to the category instead of bouncing back.
  • Fixed: rejecting a scheduled transfer removes both sides. No more leftover half asking for a category.

→ Transactions

As always, thank you for the feedback that shaped this one. 💙

u/austinmrs — 13 days ago

Why does an uncategorized credit card spend make the ready to budget positive?

Trying to understand the logic. Entering in an uncategorized transaction using a credit card account updates the RTB to green (the positive amount of the transaction I just entered). Since this is a credit card transaction I didn’t budget for, adding a category shows the red overspent banner, which I expected. But I don’t understand why leaving it uncategorized makes Ready to Budget positive

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u/domafave — 12 days ago

Credit Card Overpayment Confusion (Possible Bug)

I feel I'm pretty comfortable with how credit cards work in ZeroSum (having come from YNAB), but I'm struggling to understand what happened in my budget.

On Sept 30, one of my credit cards had a balance of -$21.20. There was $21.20 in the credit card payment category. The statement date for this credit card is Oct 2, and I wanted to pay the card down to $0 on this date so that I wouldn't have a balance due on the next billing cycle.

However, I have 2 recurring subscription charges on that card on the 2nd of each month, totaling $7.98. Because of this, on Sept 30, I scheduled a credit card payment from my bank's app, totaling $29.18 ($21.20 + $7.98). The payment's expected arrival date was Oct 2, though in ZeroSum, I dated the payment on Sept 30. This meant my credit card payment category was short $7.98 (which I expected).

Oct 1 rolled around, and I assigned all of my money to my categories. My two subscription categories were fully funded in anticipation of the two charges.

On Oct 2, ZeroSum processed the two subscriptions, totaling $7.98. What I expected to happen was for ZeroSum to move the $7.98 from my subscription categories to my credit card payment category, zeroing everything out. Instead, my credit card payment category is still short $7.98, even though $7.98 left my two subscription categories. I'm not sure where the money from these categories went.

If I change the date of the credit card payment to today, my credit card payment category is zeroed out, but my Ready to Budget says I've overbudgeted by $7.98.

Did I undercover a bug, or am I not fully understanding how credit cards work in ZeroSum?

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u/SignificanceNew8390 — 12 days ago

Delete all payees without any transactions

Hi - any chance of improving the payees section? I have lots without any transactions that I would love to be able to delete quickly.

Thanks!

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u/ILikeToSpooner — 13 days ago

Transactions sequence help

I am a manual user of the app. Back last two months (or last month) ago, whenever I input a transaction in the app it retains the sequence I have input the transactions. But now transactions of the same date was automatically sorted from highest outflow to the least, not keeping the sequence i have inputted the data. Is there any way to change or revert this behavior back. I liked it since it’s aligned to the flow of my expenses in my card whenever i counter reference. Hope somebody could help me. Thanks!

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u/paralellog — 13 days ago