❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Safe to Spend is the money you can freely use without affecting your ability to pay bills. It's calculated as:

Current Balance - Pending Bills + Expected Income - Minimum Reserve = Safe to Spend

This ensures you always have enough for your obligations while knowing what's available for discretionary spending.

Most people think about money in terms of when they get paid, not calendar months. If you're paid bi-weekly, you have 26 pay periods per year, not 12. Organizing your budget around pay periods gives you a more accurate picture of what you can spend between paychecks.

This is a safety cushion that BudgetPro will always protect. If you set a $500 minimum reserve, your Safe to Spend will never dip into that amount. This helps prevent overdrafts and ensures you always have emergency funds available.

When you mark a recurring bill as "Paid," BudgetPro automatically advances its due date to the next occurrence. For example, a monthly bill due on the 15th will move to the 15th of the next month. If you accidentally mark it paid, you can click again to undo and restore the previous due date.

• One-time: Bills that occur only once and don't repeat
• Recurring: Bills that repeat on a regular schedule (weekly, monthly, etc.)
• Varied: Bills that repeat but on irregular schedules

Yes! Simply click on the bill name in the Upcoming Bills table. It will become an editable field. Make your changes and click away or press Enter to save. Don't forget to click "Save Changes" to persist your edits.

• Purple highlight: Current pay period
• Yellow background: Today's date
• Red items: Bills due
• Green items: Income expected
• Dashed border: Projected/future recurring items
• Strikethrough: Paid/received items

Projected items (shown with dashed borders) represent future occurrences of your recurring bills and income. This helps you see what's coming in future months based on your current recurring items. They're automatically calculated based on your schedule settings.

Changes to bill/income amounts and dates require clicking "Save Changes" to persist. However, marking bills as paid/unpaid and editing the current balance save immediately. Always look for the confirmation toast message to confirm your changes were saved.

Yes! BudgetPro is responsive and works on mobile devices. Simply navigate to the site in your mobile browser. For the best experience, we recommend using the landscape orientation on smaller screens.