Functional question about "Income" and "Transfer" vs normal buckets

[cpo]

Not a real bug report but more of a functional question maybe:

I am wondering wether or not the "Income" built in bucket should be replaced with a new bucket type (does an "income" bucket make any sense?)

I am by no means an expert on budgeting, but I would like to see forecasted income categories in the overviews. Also, on realized income I'd like to see to what income they relate to. Currently, everything incoming is displayed as "income", regardless if it is (for example) salary or child support.

Or would it make sense/is it the buckets way to add a bucket with a negative "want"? Just throwing it out there :-)

[iffy]

@cpo I think those two things you want are totally valid:

1. Forecasted income (I'd love to hear more about what you're expecting here. Do you have some examples?)
2. Reporting/summarizing based on the type income (e.g. salary, child support, interest, etc...)

Do you think you'd be able to achieve those two things if transactions had payees (#101) that you could group and split reports by? I ask because I'm not sure income as a bucket works but I suspect you could get what you want with payees. Or... I guess "pay-ers" in the case of income :)

[Limezy]

From my side, I would love to have more detailed view of my "Incomes".
Payees would be IMHO the best way to split incomes.

[cpo]

Payees sound like a great idea, however for me, the main charm of the app is it's simplicity. Setting up buckets and splitting transactions over them is simple and effective. Setting up buckets and payees sounds like more work :-)

Having said that, being able to not only see the expected expense (the buckets' want) but also see the projected income (buckets generating rain?) would be a great addition. When I enter a bucket with a negative want, it gets ignored when "letting it rain", maybe it could "generate rain"?

But then again, I have squat knowledge of budgetting softwares so I gladly let you guys take me by the hand :-)

[iffy]

@cpo Okay, I think I understand what you want. You want somewhere in the app to be able to enter:

• I get $1000/mo from income
• I get $300/mo from child support
• I get $200/mo from something else...

Let me think about how that could work.

[iffy]

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