'You've spent all your overall budget this month'

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Hi,

I used the ‘spending target’ tool in trends each month, this month it was £1,250.

When i made a payment, I got this notification ‘You’ve spent all your overall budget this month’

I clearly had not spent my overall budget that month as I still had £1,137 left to spend.

The only way i managed to stop this notification is by adding ‘category targets’ and trying to guess how much I would spend in each category, this is incredibly annoying to do. When I select ‘no category targets’ It gives me this ‘You’ve spent all your overall budget this month’ notification again.

Is this a bug?? I’ve done everything correct, set a spending target, chose no category targets and it still says i’ve spent all my budget every time i make a payment- Is this monzo getting confused from it’s old budgeting feature?

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Hi @Farns & welcome :wave:

Do you still have a budget set somewhere in Summary (not Trends)?

When Trends launched, I tapped on ‘Disable all budgets’ in ‘Summary’ → ‘Budgets’ to zero them, so the app couldn’t suffer from potential feature bleed-through. And I’ve never seen the same symptoms you are experiencing since then (Android app)

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Hi Mate,

Thank you, I think what you are describing may be the case. But as far as I can see, the summary tab no longer exists for me to do what you have described. Any idea where it may be hidden?

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This works on Android, not sure for iOS:

  • Go into a single account (Personal for example)
  • Tap on the search icon (top right)
  • Search for ‘Summary’
  • A list of 'Spending report’s is shown. Tap on any one of them
  • At the bottom of the period report, tap on ‘See full summary’

Hopefully it works, to get you to access Summary :crossed_fingers:, if it does:

  • Tap on the Calendar icon (top-right)
  • Tap on the ‘Current’ period at the top
  • Tap on the ‘Target’ icon at the top right
  • Scroll to the bottom of the ‘Budgets’ and tap on ‘Disable all budgets’
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Wow that’s amazing I cant believe the old budgeting tool is just hidden slightly.

I think that should be it! I’ll report back if this works.

Thank you

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Thank you David, this worked.

I can’t believe the old budgeting tool is hidden behind the new UI

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They’ll be at some point (who knows when), removing it and only keeping trends. So that’s why they’re working on hiding it etc, so that less people use it.

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Good to hear, thanks for the update :+1:

Now you have access to Summary it’s time to ‘shut it down’ and switch to Trends before :monzo: removes Summary completely.