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James Cole 2015-03-28 22:46:10 +01:00
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@ -98,10 +98,6 @@ If you want to buy something expensive, you might need to save for it. Use piggy
The general gist is that saving money is difficult. So you could set a target amount, even set a target date and get reminded of when to add money to a piggy bank. If you have one year to save € 1200,- you could remind yourself monthly and Firefly will tell you to save € 100,- every month.
## Recurring transactions
Rent, bills and insurance come back every month. By creating "recurring transactions" Firefly III will try to tell you what to expect, and when. I built this because I always forgot my yearly web hosting bill (which is huge) and this helps preventing it being a nasty surprise.
## Bills
Rent. Comes back every month. Create a bill and Firefly will not only match new withdrawals to bills but also show you which bills are still due and which ones aren't.
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This also works for your credit card, should you use it. There's a page on credit cards here (TODO).
If you relate these two transfers as being "special" most reports will exclude this expense as being "over budget".
## Repeated expenses
Currently disabled. A repeated expense is a bit like a recurring transaction, but "reversed". You can imagine saving up for taxes _every year_. Maybe you need money for Christmas gifts, _every year_. Or you want to save up for new clothes _every three months_. With Firefly III you can create such repeated expenses and get reminded of them every week or month.
If you relate these two transfers as being "special" most reports will exclude this expense as being "over budget".