The Unbudgeted Alerts are live. Settings → Push Notifications → toggle UnbudgetedAlerts on, set your monthly limit (e.g. $200), and pick which checkpoints to get pinged at: 50% / 80% / 100%.
Quick notes:
- Alerts fire once per checkpoint per month (so you won't get spammed if you keep going over).
- Counts everything in categories without a budget allocation + anything marked "Uncategorized."
Let me know how it feels in the wild, and thanks again for the suggestion 🙌
team@waypointbudget
Team•
Apr 29
Update: Shipped 🎉
The second half of your request is now live. Inside Settings → Push Notifications, when "Budget Alerts" is enabled, you'll see three checkboxes:
[ ] 50% [ ] 80% [x] 100% (exceeded)
Quick question on the first half ("total unbudgeted exceeds a threshold and nearing a threshold") by "unbudgeted" do you mean:
(a) Spending in categories that don't have a budget item set (e.g., "alert me when my unbudgeted spending hits $200/month"), or
(b) Something else like uncategorized transactions, or the gap between income and total allocated budget?
Once we know which you have in mind, we can scope it. Marking this as Partially Shipped for now.
Notorious926
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May 3
Hi!
Thanks for adding the notifications so quickly!
As for unbudgeted what I meant was similar to the option (a), but just to explain how I look at it is. That the total unbudgeted spending at bottom of dashboard does break it down into categories but what I’m wanting to get notification on is the total It gives for all. If we can set a threshold for that total and have similar 50/80/100 notifications that would in tracking and controlling the unbudgeted amounts. As it’s hard to create budget for everything and if your just trying to limit certain categories overall or keep the minimum I think this is helpful
team@waypointbudget
Team•
May 3
Happy I could set it up for you! :) Let me know if you run into any issues. I’ll monitor it this month to see if the alerts area actually coming.
And ah gotcha! this is super clear, thanks for the detailed explanation!
A single threshold on the dashboard's "Total Unbudgeted Spending" number with the same 50/80/100 alerts pattern is a clean addition.
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team@waypointbudget
May 12
Update: Shipped 🎉
The Unbudgeted Alerts are live. Settings → Push Notifications → toggle Unbudgeted Alerts on, set your monthly limit (e.g. $200), and pick which checkpoints to get pinged at: 50% / 80% / 100%.
Quick notes:
- Alerts fire once per checkpoint per month (so you won't get spammed if you keep going over).
- Counts everything in categories without a budget allocation + anything marked "Uncategorized."
Let me know how it feels in the wild, and thanks again for the suggestion 🙌
team@waypointbudget
Apr 29
Update: Shipped 🎉
The second half of your request is now live. Inside Settings → Push Notifications, when "Budget Alerts" is enabled, you'll see three checkboxes:
[ ] 50% [ ] 80% [x] 100% (exceeded)
Quick question on the first half ("total unbudgeted exceeds a threshold and nearing a threshold") by "unbudgeted" do you mean:
(a) Spending in categories that don't have a budget item set (e.g., "alert me when my unbudgeted spending hits $200/month"), or
(b) Something else like uncategorized transactions, or the gap between income and total allocated budget?
Once we know which you have in mind, we can scope it. Marking this as Partially Shipped for now.
Notorious926
May 3
Hi!
Thanks for adding the notifications so quickly!
As for unbudgeted what I meant was similar to the option (a), but just to explain how I look at it is. That the total unbudgeted spending at bottom of dashboard does break it down into categories but what I’m wanting to get notification on is the total It gives for all. If we can set a threshold for that total and have similar 50/80/100 notifications that would in tracking and controlling the unbudgeted amounts. As it’s hard to create budget for everything and if your just trying to limit certain categories overall or keep the minimum I think this is helpful
team@waypointbudget
May 3
Happy I could set it up for you! :) Let me know if you run into any issues. I’ll monitor it this month to see if the alerts area actually coming.
And ah gotcha! this is super clear, thanks for the detailed explanation!
A single threshold on the dashboard's "Total Unbudgeted Spending" number with the same 50/80/100 alerts pattern is a clean addition.
Moving this back to planned, stay tuned!