I could probably just say, “We decided to pay for the plus version of EveryDollar” and that would serve as an endorsement for the product. However, that would make this post the sum of one sentence and hardly long enough to satisfy my view of a proper “update”.
To say budgeting with EveryDollar has been easy these past couple of weeks would be an understatement. Our February budget is going along quite nicely as the “drag and drop” feature speeds up the process significantly over manually entering each transaction.
I have already built the March budget, although I am still struggling with how to handle three paydays falling in a single calendar month. The third falls at the very end of the month and would actually be used to pay bills in April. So, I’m grappling with whether I should list it in March or April. I’m leaning toward April. This is where my old “bi-weekly” method of budgeting conflicts somewhat with monthly budgeting. I’ll make it work though.
We haven’t added the app to our phones yet, but we will. We’ve had a bit going on and budgeting apps haven’t been top priority.
So far, I really like EveryDollar Plus. The amount of time and energy it saves me is well worth budgeting $3.81 per paycheck to cover the annual fee.
Added bonus? The husband hasn’t heard me gripe about my old spreadsheets for two weeks.