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Planner budget: totals, payments and who pays
By Nimanto 2 min read
In short
Budget shows your total, planned, agreed, paid and left to pay. Set-up splits your total into typical lines; add your own with Add a cost, give each a quote, and mark them paid. Paid by says who covers each cost. Nimanto never takes or sends money for vendors.
Open the invitation, choose Planner, then the Budget tab: "What you planned, agreed and paid."
The ledger
At the top: your Total budget (Add a total if you have none), then Planned, Agreed, Paid and Left to pay, with one bar showing paid inside agreed inside planned. Anything over your total shows in red. Alerts under it tell you when you are over, when payments are late or due within the week, and when a category runs past its estimate.
Add a cost
- 1Press Add a cost.
- 2Type What is it? and How much?, and tick This price is agreed if it is settled.
- 3Check the Category, guessed from your words, and For which function?
- 4Press Save, or More details for the full dialog: a fixed amount or a price per guest, tax and service on top, who pays, a sponsor, and notes.
Planned and Agreed amounts can be typed straight into the list. A cost marked Not counted in the budget, such as a gift from family, sits apart.
Payments
Open a cost's menu and choose Payments… to list each payment with its amount (or a share of the agreed price), its due day and how it was paid. Schedule from a quote fills them for you: a deposit and balance, three parts, or in full on the day. Mark paid asks the day and the method. Envelopes handed over on the day are listed under Cash on the day.
A typical split
With a total set, Use the typical split (or Suggest a split with AI help) shares it across categories the way similar celebrations usually spend, with a reason per line. It is "a typical split, not a quote". Your own amounts are kept unless you choose Replace my amounts too.
Who pays
For a wedding, Who's paying? at set-up (we are, one family, both families, or with sponsors) sets a default, and Paid by on the Budget tab filters the list by side. Name each side yourself under Planner settings → Families and money; the planner never uses gendered roles. Paid by is a view, not a permission.
Currency
Every plan keeps one currency, picked from your country at set-up. Changing it converts nothing: amounts stay as typed.
Who sees amounts
The owner and Editors see every amount. Viewers see "—" until the owner turns on Viewers can see the budget in Planner settings. A cost marked Private is for the owner alone. See Who can see your planner.
Download or print
More → Budget CSV or Print budget (PDF). Nothing here is ever shown to guests.
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