Savings and goals | General Feature Request

Savings and goals

Jen from Lunch Money

Use case #1: Help plan for "By X date, I need Y set aside"

Use case #2: Set a budgeting goal for a specific category to "Save X amount every month"

January 12, 2021

Mounsif

I’m new here and have recently migrated from the YNAB platform. I’m currently trialing and comparing features between the two. So far, I’m actually impressed with what an indie developer has delivered, it feels like a breath of fresh air compared with a well established company like YNAB, which in my view has fallen behind in several areas.
One thing I’ve noticed is that there doesn’t appear to be a native Savings Goals feature in Lunch Money. I may have missed it, but it doesn’t seem to be available, which leads me to assume it hasn’t been developed yet. Judging by the upvotes in this thread, that seems likely.
Could you please confirm whether a native Savings Goals feature is planned or already in development? Any insight into timeline?

Andy McMullen

Adding this to the budget screen would be nice as well. i.e. if you have a recurring transaction defined, there should be a budget option to set an amount that will hit the amount you have defined by the date of the recurring

Istvan Csaki

I really need this feature, please develop it <3

Frank

Would love a savings/goals feature

Martin

I see the comment from Jen on September 25th, 2024, saying that the new budgeting feature will support savings and goals. 
Is this the same as targets? 
I'm also in the beta and I'm not seeing the feature, but then again, it's all a bit confusing. 
Thanks in advance for the great software, but this seems like a key element.

Toma

Has this been made available? I am in using the beta and this feature is not part of it.

Jason

New User to LM. I'm very shocked this issue was brought up in Jan 2021 and is still not resolved. Savings goals are so important to budgeting so this is actually a show stopper for me. Sure would be great to get an update on this issue.

Elijah Estoll

Yes, do we know when the Beta version will be available?

Andrew Browne

Very very very much looking forward to this.

Carlos Veiga

Hi Jen - Do you need any more testers for this, even before it gets to Beta? I'd be very glad to help!!! I'm moving from YNAB to Lunch Money so I've had quite a bit of experience around budgeting/saving for specific goals over time, etc.

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