How do I log deposits and payments?
Each expense can hold several payments, each with its date and amount. That lets you see three different numbers at any moment: how much you've committed, how much you've already paid, and how much is still outstanding.
Weddings are almost never paid all at once: there's a deposit to hold the date, a second payment halfway through planning, and a final balance days before. Logging each payment separately is what makes the number useful.
The difference that matters
- Committed — what you've agreed with the vendor, paid or not.
- Paid — what has actually left your account.
- Outstanding — the difference between the two.
Confusing committed with paid is the mistake that makes $80,000 appear two weeks before the wedding, money that was "already accounted for" but never actually spent.
One tip
Log the payment the day you make it, even with a rounded amount. An approximate record that's current is worth more than an exact one from three months ago.
Transcript
The wedding’s expense list with its filter row on top. Tapping “Unpaid” leaves only the expenses that have not been paid; tapping “Partly paid”, the ones carrying a deposit; tapping “Paid”, the ones already settled. The last tap returns to “All” and the full list comes back.