Allow Periods to be set to Every 2 weeks on Specific Day

[Homemediadocker]

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Description

• I would like to have the ability to add a budget or income amount, and set a period to be every 2 weeks. For instance, i get paid every two weeks on Wednesday, and would like to set my transaction period to be for that timeframe.
• I envision this would be a part of the auto budget? Maybe? I am fairly new to the app so I am not sure where the best place would be.
• I have not seen where firefly can do this itself. Most of the options are for weekly/monthly expenses, and we track every 2 weeks expenses.

Solution

This should add the ability to create 2 week periods and budgets

What are alternatives?

No response

Additional context

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[JC5]

Hi, thanks for opening an issue. This will not be happening. What you see is what you get.

Do yourself a favor and separate your financial planning from your paycheck. Firefly III is opinionated about this, and it will not be changed.

[quincarter]

Hey thank you for your response! So I do think it is close to what I want. And I had read that page you linked about managing personal finances. We are also on an envelope based system. The pay period frequency is just something I couldn't figure out. Like I get paid every 2 weeks and I just need my paycheck to reflect that in firefly. Could I adapt an automated transaction to reflect a direct deposit every 2 weeks? I am fairly new to the system and just am not sure about the capabilities.

If not then it's fine. Thanks for your response either way.

(Also just realized I responded on my other account. Whoops)

[JC5]

You could use recurring transactions for that? Should fit your use case!