Monthly Budget Calendar for Google Sheets
The Monthly Budget Calendar is a minimalist spending tracker and budget for Google Sheets. Set your monthly spending target, see your daily and cumulative spending, and know what’s available until the end of the month.
About the Monthly Budget Calendar for Google Sheets
The Monthly Budget Calendar is a minimalist spending tracker and monthly budget for Google Sheets. Everything is streamlined in a simple monthly calendar view. Set your monthly spending target, track your daily and cumulative spending, and see how much you have left before the end of the month – or before you hit your spending target.
→ See the Microsoft Excel version of the Monthly Budget Calendar here
The Monthly Budget Calendar is minimalistic by design with just a few customizable options.
- Choose the year.
- Choose the month.
- Input your Monthly Budget spending target.
- Choose how you want to gather your daily expenses.
- Watch the magic happen.
Regarding the fourth step, there are four different ways to gather expenses:
- “All Withdrawals” will total each day’s negative transactions. You will not need to categorize any data to use this template immediately, but transactions like transfers may make your daily totals inaccurate.
- “Withdrawals Transfers” will total each day’s negative transactions but will ignore any transactions categorized as a Transfer category type. If you haven’t categorized many transactions, but want to exclude a few transactions, just categorize those and let the rollup do its magic.
- “Categorized Expenses” totals only transactions categorized to an expense category while ignoring income, transfers, and uncategorized transactions (including positive refunds categorized in expense categories).
- “Categorized Group Expenses” allows you to select an expense-category group and will total transactions categorized to that group (including positive refunds categorized in expense categories).
Transfers” will total each day’s negative transactions but will ignore any transactions categorized as a Each calendar day shows:
- The date and day of the week
- Your spending actuals based on the filter selected above
- Cumulative spending for the month
- How much is left before you hit your selected spending target
- A sparkline visualizing your spending increasing to your target
If you exceed your monthly spending target, your sparkline turns red, and your amount turns negative.
Installation
The Monthly Budget Calendar is now available for free in the Tiller Community Solutions add-on for Google Sheets.
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Tiller Community Solutions FAQ
Is this template free?
This is a free template built by a member of the Tiller Community. While it’s free for anyone to use, it’s designed for spreadsheets automated by Tiller. Additionally, it’s recommended for use within the Foundation Template.
What is Tiller?
Tiller is the only automated personal finance service for Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. Tiller automatically tracks your daily spending, income, and balances in your spreadsheets, so you can see all your finances in one place and manage your money, your way. Learn more →
What is the Tiller Community Solutions Add-on?
The Tiller Community Solutions add-on for Google Sheets is an easy way to install dozens of free, prebuilt sheets for tracking your budgets, debt payoff goals, net worth, savings, and more. It also includes several helpful spreadsheet utilities and CSV importers.
Does this template have any dependencies or special requirements?
This template for Google Sheets works best when installed in Tiller’s Foundation Template.
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