Novice Money

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Everyday records

Add and manage accounts

Set up an account and understand Today, Including future, and archived accounts.

Import and review transaction files

Preview QIF or CSV files, resolve mappings and matches, then import the reviewed activity.

Organize income and expense categories

Use shared system categories or household custom categories to organize transactions and budgets.

Record and review ledger transactions

Enter deposits and withdrawals, review transaction status, and find missing rows.

Getting started

Get started with Novice Money

Start with one account, record activity, and see how upcoming payments affect your plan.

Household and settings

Set up and troubleshoot email reminders

Choose reminder content and delivery preferences, including why an empty daily summary is not sent.

Share finances with a household

Understand Owner, Editor, and Viewer roles, invitations, and household switching.

Understand and manage AI connections

Review household consent, read and change permissions, and how to revoke an AI connection.

Understand financial backups and restores

Review saved household snapshots, their contents and limits, and the effects of restoring.

Planning ahead

Build and review a Debt Snowball plan

Compare payoff approaches using debt balances, interest rates, and payment assumptions.

Choose a payment frequency

Understand every two weeks, twice a month, short months, and series endings.

Create and review monthly budgets

Allocate monthly spending by account and category, then compare spending and commitments.

Manage scheduled bills and income

Create a repeating schedule and distinguish entering an occurrence from paying a bill.

Understand Cash Flow

Read daily projected balances and inspect the transactions and schedules behind them.

Why the dashed budget line may stay flat

See how spending consumes a reserve without being deducted twice from After budgets.

Reviewing finances

Choose and read a financial report

Select a report, account, and period, and distinguish recorded spending from projections.

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