Why is my bank account balance less than my Safe-to-Spend balance?
When you are first starting out in Weekly, although it’s not typical, it’s possible that your Safe-to-Spend could be larger than your cash balance in the bank. Yikes! How can this [...]
How to Budget for Irregular Income
Many people have income who’s amounts vary but they still want to feel confident in having a set amount to spend each week knowing that their main bills are [...]
“Variable but Important” – How to Budget for Gas and Groceries
For many people keeping track of the gas and grocery budget is essential to making their financial weeks work. People may want to make sure there is enough money [...]
NEW RELEASE: Trend Reports and Adjustment Transactions
Our latest release (3.10) brings an all-new Trend Reports and better handling of recurring item transactions that don’t match the recurring item amount. The Trend Report is a [...]
NEW FEATURE: Monthly Safe-to-Spend Category Report
Currently in your Dashboard you can see your current Safe-to-Spend transactions by category. It can useful though to "zoom out" and see your spending by category over a month's [...]
NEW FEATURE: Safe-to-Spend Categories
We are excited to announce that we have just added category tracking for your Safe-to-Spend purchases. You can now see how much you are spending in for items like [...]
Budgeting App for those with ADHD
For those that live with ADHD, it can be harder to budget using complex financial tools. Luckily, Weekly with it's easy-to-use interface, simple design and unique budgeting philosophy is [...]
NEW FEATURE: Split Transactions
We have just launched a new feature in Weekly that allows you to split transactions so that separate parts of the transactions can be "mapped" to different destinations. This [...]
NEW FEATURE: On Demand Syncing and Sync History
Weekly budgeting is about staying in touch with your budget in a mindful way. This requires monitoring your day-to-day transactions to keep track of your Safe-to-Spend. To make this [...]
Reviewing Budget Items
When you first come to Weekly, you go through guided walk-through of putting in all your income, expenses and savings goals. Then at the end we calculate your Weekly [...]
Dan interviewed on the CFO At Home podcast
Dan Seethaler sat down with Vince Carter the host of the CFO at Home podcast to discuss all things weekly budgeting. In this conversation with Vince, Dan discussed [...]
Budgeting Systems – Which Is the Best Way to Budget For You?
So you want to get yourself on a budgeting plan! That’s great. So, what’s the first step? You may discover quickly there is no one way to do budget [...]
A Flurry of New Transaction Management Features
A big update has come to Weekly that changes how the app handles transactions. With this update you will have the ability edit transactions in past weeks, search for [...]
Sharing Weekly with A Partner
One of the problems couples can run into is conflict over how money is being spent. In fact the origin story of Weekly has roots in helping [...]
Instant View Into Your Upcoming Bills
Weekly can set your mind at ease by giving you a view into your upcoming bills and income in the Upcoming Items report. In this report, Weekly shows you [...]
New Dashboard & Reports. Be in Control in 2023.
Weekly's new dashboard gives quick insights into day-to-day spending, upcoming bills and the amount of money in your accounts. The new dashboard also lets you see the changes in [...]
Rainy Day Fund: How to Tell if You Are Prepared for a Rainy Day
Do you keep track of your finances so you know how much money you can reasonably spend each week? You’re on your way to a healthy budget! You understand [...]
Transferring Money between Funds (and Funds and Safe-to-Spend)
The fun of budgeting is to see your funds grow and feeling more confident and secure in your spending habits and lifestyle. As you move through your weeks you [...]
The Safe-to-Spend Widget
Your Safe-to-Spend is important to keep close. It keeps you in touch with how much money can spend as you move through your daily life. It’s like your financial [...]
Variable vs Fixed Expenses: What’s The Difference?
What Are the Differences Between Variable Expenses & Fixed Expenses? Have you ever decided that it was time to be smarter about your spending? Most people, whether through necessity [...]
8 Tips to Stop Impulse Buying & Control Your Spending Habits
Do you find yourself purchasing a chocolate bar when you pass it at the grocery store checkout? Do you click on links to purchase items when you’re browsing social [...]
Export Transactions to a CSV to Do Your Own Analysis
Who loves spreadsheets? In our latest release (version 2.5.0) we have added the ability to export your transactions to a .csv file to use with your favorite spreadsheet program. [...]
How To Keep More of Your Paycheck: 11 Easy Tips
You work hard and your money should work just as hard for you. But if you’re finding that the money disappears before you can even bring it home, don’t [...]
Transaction Update Notifications
Sometimes after a transaction has been posted to your bank account and downloaded into Weekly, the amount will increase. Weekly allows you to review transactions as soon as they [...]
Two Ways to Add Day-to-Day Transactions into Weekly
So you are all setup with Weekly, and you have determined your Safe-to-Spend amount and started your first week. Congrats! On the main tracker page you will see your [...]
4 Critical Mistakes Couples Make When Budgeting and How to Fix Them
Relationships can be tricky at the best of times. Financial issues that can surface when you’re budgeting with your partner can put a serious strain on domestic bliss. [...]
Quickly Navigate and Find Things with Global Search
Did you know inside of Weekly, you can access a global search? Weekly's Global Search allows you to find funds, recurring items, bank accounts and even answers to [...]
7 Money Saving Tips You May Never Have Thought of Before
Saving money can come in many forms. It can mean a whole lifestyle change but it can also mean finding small ways to save a [...]
Budgeting with Your Spouse
Put an end to “Doomsday” meetings. Budgeting with a spouse or partner? Is there anything more fraught? No one likes to face the limits of their money and doing [...]
5 Essential Budgeting Tips for 2022
Budgeting is about focusing our spending on things that truly bring value to our lives. With all the demands of daily life, it can sometimes get confusing to make [...]
Lock and Archive Funds to Manage Their Availability
As you are building up your funds inside of Weekly, you may want to keep them out of sight until it's time to spend money out of them [...]
Track Your Savings with Funds
When setting up your budget, you may want to set aside money for an emergency, a holiday, a vacation or to purchase something big like a home. With Weekly, [...]
Choose your own emoji for “Income & Expenses”
JUST LAUNCHED: when adding/updating a recurring income or expense, you can now pick your own emoji and background color. Also the "Income & Expenses" screen has a new look. [...]
Support for OAuth and Capital One
Weekly connects to your bank to download your transactions to make it easy to stay on top of your Safe-To-Spend. Up until now, Weekly - via Plaid - has used [...]
How To Create A Weekly Budget in 6 Steps
No matter how often you're paid - once a month, twice a month, or every other week - weekly budgeting works. Budgeting on a weekly basis makes it easier [...]
Bank Transaction Review
Weekly is designed to keep you focused on one number: your Safe-To-Spend. To make sure your Safe-To-Spend number is up-to-date and accurate, Weekly pulls in your purchases from your bank [...]
Scheduling Transactions
The latest launch of Weekly brings the ability to schedule transactions in the future. This comes in handy when you spend money but don’t want to count it against your [...]
Stop the Shame!
As financial coach, Amanda Clayman says, budgets are not supposed to be “a form of punishment for past mistakes.” But how do we shift budgets from being tools of [...]
Do You Feel Anxious About Money?
Do you feel anxious about money? That’s okay! Financial therapists say that it’s completely normal. Being unclear on what whether we are overspending or if our spending aligns with [...]
Choose Your Week Start Date
The idea of behind Weekly is to budget your money on a weekly basis and not focus on when cash comes in or out of your bank account. But your [...]
Viewing Past Transactions
What’s in the past is in the past, but if you wanna take a look — we got you! It’s Weekly’s aim to declutter the process of keeping track of your money and [...]
App Notifications and Viewing Bank Transactions
App Notifications and Viewing Bank Transactions Getting your transactions automatically downloaded from your bank helps take away the headache of manually entering transactions. Now, with automatic notifications, you can be [...]
Account Management
Account Management When you connect your financial institutions to Weekly, your transactions are automatically downloaded to help keep your budget up to date. This week’s release adds the ability to [...]
Transaction Review Enhancements
At Weekly we believe reviewing bank and credit card transactions is a critical step in managing your spending. Seeing each transaction individually increases your mindfulness and helps ensure your money [...]
Automatic Transaction Importing — How It Works and Why We Built It
So, you have bought into the benefits of weekly budgeting. You’ve downloaded Weekly and are using it to keep track of your spending — woohoo! But as you go on with [...]
Your Weekly Spending Limit
One of the problems with traditional budgeting is it’s hard to know what number to concentrate on. One approach is to give everything dollar a job and track all [...]
Tracking Daily Expenses
Weekly is designed to change behavior. It does this by giving you one financial number to concentrate on: your Safe-to-Spend amount. Your Safe-to-Spend amount is the amount of money [...]
Redefining Budgeting
Budgeting should be simple — just spend less than you earn, right? Unfortunately, most budgeting tools overcomplicate things with endless categories and constant updating. Weekly introduces an entirely new budgeting approach. [...]