Danno, I beleive you are saying you have two seperate accounts which accumulate income, and you would like to allocate deposits into both of them into your Salary bucket. Correct?
To emulate this, I created a second checking account in my finance file, and made a fake deposit entry to it, allocating it to no bucket at that time. Then, I dragged the deposit transaction which at the time was listed as "Unassigned" into the Salary bucket. This had the effect of increasing the balance of the Salary bucket by the deposit amount I dragged. Does this help at all? On Jan 9, 3:00 pm, "Mr. Danno Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to you, Mike, for the quick and helpful answers. > > I find I can do as you describe with one account (I can set the > initial cash flow date, and then use the drop-down menu to allot the > initial balance to the Salary bucket). So far so good. > > But I have second account. I expected to be able to do the same thing > and have the amount from that second account added to the the Salary > bucket. > > What's happening instead, is the amount in the Salary bucket CHANGES > to the new amount I just entered. > > I'm just trying to figure out how to get the intial amounts from BOTH > accounts to both shoow up in the Salary bucket. > > (I believe I actually have a pretty good understanding of the day-to- > day operations; I'm trying to make the move from mVelopes, which is > similar in philosophy [I think], but nowhere near as Mac-friendly. I > just need to get over this hurdle of getting started! I'm no computer > dummy, but I feel like this could really use a nice hand-holding first- > sreen pathway--do this, now do this, and now finally, you're free to > do what you like!) > > Thanks again, > > ds > > On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:46 PM, mikemc wrote: > > > > > Hey ds, > > > I'll try and field this one too. (others chime in if I'm incorrect). > > What I ended up doing is going to my Checking Account's website (BOA) > > and getting my starting balance amount as of 1/1/2009. For Example, > > say my starting balance as of 1/1/2009 was $250, when I set my initial > > cash flow start date of 1/1/2009 I selected my main income bucket from > > the drop down ("Salary") and entered in $250. After doing this the > > $250 should show up next to your Salary Bucket and should be > > recognized when Allocating. Or you can simply click-n-drag your > > Salary bucket to an Expense bucket to allocate money between the two. > > > It is tough to wrap your head around at first (at least for me b/c I > > was used to Quicken), but once the lightbulb went off I find it easier > > to manage my money and keep a budget. > > > Hope this helps, > > Mike > > > On Jan 9, 2:36 pm, "Mr. Danno Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Two new accounts set up. > > >> How do I get the amount shown in the account to move into the > >> "salary" > >> bucket, so that I can disperse it to the spending buckets? > > >> Thanks for any help! > > >> ds --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
