> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://recontrol.money/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Budgets

> A ceiling on what you spend over a period that repeats, on some categories or on what leaves some accounts.

A budget is a limit over a week, month, quarter or year, on **categories** (what's spent in them) or **cards and accounts** (what's spent from them). It holds no money. To set one, see [Set a budget](https://recontrol.money/docs/tasks/set-a-budget.md).

## What counts

* Money that reached a category counts once.
* **A refund** reduces it.
* **A transfer between your own accounts**, such as paying the card's bill, never counts.
* **Money with no category** from a bank or cash account waits in **Sort Your Spending**.

Each purchase is converted into the space's reporting currency.

## The screen

1. **What's left**, or "₹1,900 over" in red, with a bar.
2. **This Month**: **Spent**, **Limit**, **Starts Again**.
3. **History**: a bar per period, with **Months Over** ("1 of 12").
4. **Where It Went**, then every transaction it counted.

A budget states facts, never a forecast. **⋯** holds **Edit Budget** and **Delete Budget**.

## Alerts

**As You Spend** tells members at 50%, 75%, 90% or 100% (90% and 100% to start). **When It Ends** sends what the period came to. See [Alerts](https://recontrol.money/docs/features/alerts.md).

No envelopes, and no rollover of what's unspent.


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