Shelf 3 · Household

Salary in, life out.

Where the family's money came from and where it went: a money map of the month, income by source, spending by category, and the payments that come back every month.

Sketch of a money map: salary, rent and interest flowing into the household and out to home, living, travel, loans, investments and savings.

What it reads

  • The same bank statements as the Passbook
  • The people and businesses you tell it about

What you see

  • A money map from every income to every kind of spending
  • Income by source, month by month
  • Spending by category against a usual month
  • Recurring payments, and what's due in the next 30 days
  • A heatmap of spending across the year

Questions

I run a small business. Does that get mixed in?

Business accounts can be kept apart from the household, so the family view stays clean.

What counts as a usual month?

The average of the three months before, so one odd month stands out.