Scheduled deposits into pots helps keep earmarked money safe between bill due dates, but it’s a very manual process to dump the saved pots back into the main account bucket for random expenses (not scheduled bills). I desperately need an automated method for accessing pot money.
I could pick a recent payee (one or more!) by name so those would always pull money out of that pot (and any remainder from the main bucket).
This would let me withdraw from the appropriate pots as I spend (either for a regularly scheduled bill or for irregular expenses). Scheduling a pot withdrawal as we can do now only really lets me automate bills.
This does exist in the US app because that’s how I have everything set up right now. It’s a work around for not having bills come straight out of a Pot.
Yeah this is not really an answer for the way Simple Expenses worked. Ideally you set a payee/merchant or category to a pot and then the payments come out of that pot when they happen, not on a schedule.
I could see this maybe working for monthly items if you could set a day of the month for the withdrawal.
Also if you pay by a scheduled bank transfer (or direct debit, though I recall hearing they’re not a thing on your side of the Atlantic) you can set it to come from a pot. In the payments tab click the payment and under the edit and delete buttons there (might be) the option to pay from pot.