# Is it possible yet to define your 'month'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback & Ideas\ **Created:** [22 July 2016 07:31 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/is-it-possible-yet-to-define-your-month/4569 "2016-07-22T07:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon6531271](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@anon6531271](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon6531271)\ **Post date:** [22 July 2016 07:31 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/is-it-possible-yet-to-define-your-month/4569/1 "2016-07-22T07:31:20Z")
I’m not sure if this is a hidden feature yet, but is it possible to define when your ‘month’ starts? For me, a financial month starts when I get paid - it’s not helpful for me to see the tail end of a previous ‘month’ included in my spending. Is this a feature yet? ---
**Author:** ![anon87263155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@anon87263155](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon87263155)\ **Post date:** [22 July 2016 08:56 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/is-it-possible-yet-to-define-your-month/4569/2 "2016-07-22T08:56:54Z")
Yep - I’d really like this too. ---
**Author:** ![anon4562461](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@anon4562461](https://community.monzo.com/u/anon4562461)\ **Post date:** [22 July 2016 09:06 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/is-it-possible-yet-to-define-your-month/4569/3 "2016-07-22T09:06:50Z")
It’s not there yet but it’s certainly come up in a few discussions around budgeting. > [@Set Start of Month](https://community.monzo.com/t/definition-of-month/1144/9): > > I too would like the option to set a custom month ‘start’ date for stat purposes, but of course this might vary month-to-month (like where the given month ‘starts’ on a weekend, for example), but I like this idea even more - the ability to mark a credit from a particular source to be the trigger to reset the statistics. I wonder how this could look in the app though - I guess there’s a bit of a trade-off here between functionality and keeping things straightforward for users that don’t want any… ---
**Author:** ![Feathers](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/feathers/32/45868_2.png) [@Feathers](https://community.monzo.com/u/Feathers)\ **Post date:** [4 December 2017 17:16 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/is-it-possible-yet-to-define-your-month/4569/4 "2017-12-04T17:16:43Z")
Closed on 4 December 2017 17:16 UTC Discussed here: > [@Set Start of Month](https://community.monzo.com/t/set-start-of-month-1/1144): > > So like a lot of people, I get paid at the end of the month (26th) - could there be an opportunity to define where I want my month to start? I got my Mondo card on the 26th Jan at the office meet invite thing and it’s a little bit tedious now that its the 14th Feb and my expenditure is split over two months so far, so really think having the option to define when my month starts would be cool. Might just be me not having the card for a long enough time and I may come to realise this is a stupi…