Total Spending

[member312]

I am new to mint. I just signed up about two weeks ago. Unless I am missing something, I can not figure out how to see my total spending for the month versuses my budget for those items that did not have a budget. As an example, I did not budget to buy toys this month, but I did spend $30 at ToysRUs. I see it in my transactions, however on my summary, I still look like I am on track to hit my budget. If anyone knows of a way to have ALL transactions be applied against your budget and maybe just show up as a "no budget" item, that would be great.

[mburdsall]

I am new to mint. I just signed up about two weeks ago. Unless I am missing something, I can not figure out how to see my total spending for the month versuses my budget for those items that did not have a budget.

If anyone knows of a way to have ALL transactions be applied against your budget and maybe just show up as a "no budget" item, that would be great.

You are correct about this feature currently missing from Mint. It is an often requested feature for future releases of Mint made by forum users. The other related issues:


Allow income catagories in the budget.
Allow budgeting on 12-13 month basis
Allow budget carry over
Allow better reporting showing trends
Allow better reporting showing savings (income budget - expense budget)
Allow trend reporting of networth/savings
Allow comparision reporting YTD budget vs Last YTD actual
Allow comparision reporting MTD budget vs Last MTD actual
Allow comparision reporting QTD budget vs Last QTD actual

[PixelFool]

I'm glad I found these forums. I just requested this item as well. I suggested there be a "everything except what I've already budgeted for" option. "No budget" definitely sounds better.

I consider this a really important feature for me, now that I'm trying to use mint consistently.

[mburdsall]

I hope that the next release addresses short commings in reporting and budgeting

[juniorquizzing@juno.com]

What if you just put a zero budget for each of the catagories you don't budget for?

[mburdsall]

The request that users have is that they would like to see a line on the overvewi budget graph that represents the spending for the month that does not appear in any of the budget categories. For example lets say that I spend 6,000 USD in the month of Jan. In my budget categories I could account for 4,000 of those expenditures. What i do not know today very easily today on the budget graph is how much of my total spend for the month of january was no included in the budget category. In this case I spent 2,000 that was not budgeted for in January.

When Mint finally adds income categories to the budget it would be nice to have the same for income.

[tamezm]

I just joined Mint and I really like it, but I had the same problem that everyone else seems to be having. I wanted to group together categories of spending to create a budget that includes restaurants (but not all food and dining like groceries) and movies and other things that I spend money on. Every month I'm allocating $400 to these "fun" things. So I created a tag called "400 Dollar Budget" and tagged all of the things that I bought that I was counting toward the $400 budget. When I go into the trends section it shows me all of my spending broken down into category and adds up how much I spent on the $400 budget items in the table on the right. So for each month I can see how much I spent and how far it is from my goal of $400. It's not ideal, but it'll work for me (and maybe others) until they put in a better budgeting tool.