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Here’s the most important thing about deleting a category: When you delete a category, you also delete all of the receipts (from all time) that were a part of that category. It’s totally fine to delete a category, and often that’s exactly what you’ll want to do. But if you want to keep your receipts from a […]

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How’d you guess? You sure can! You can either use a comma or a period, followed by a space, to split up your tags. So if you’re on an iPhone or another smartphone, you can stay on the normal keyboard view.  

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Definitely! Just go to https://www.pearbudget.com/tags/all. If you’d like to view receipts for a tag or delete it from that list, clicking on it will allow you to do both.

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Each tag has a pop-up box with details on the tag. You get this pop-up box to appear by clicking on the tag’s name. You can view all your tags here and select one: https://pearbudget.com/tags/all, or you can go to the Review Your Spending page and click on “receipts” or on “tags.” Then click on […]

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A “tag” is a short description or keyword that you can use to label your receipts. Tags are notnecessary, and many people new to PearBudget don’t use them. But they can be really useful, and once you’re comfortable with them, you can do some pretty cool things with them. For example, Sarah and I got an […]

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Ultimately, it depends on the questions you’re trying to answer. Most people are trying to answer something like this: “Out of the money that’s come in, and the money that’s committed to immovable expenses (like my mortgage / insurance / car payment / other things), what’s left for my discretionary spending (on stuff like entertainment […]

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Planning ahead is tricky. It’s like driving down the highway: Rather than picking the one spot 1,000 feet down the road and driving without adjusting the steering wheel, you point in the right direction and make small course adjustments as necessary. Similarly, each month you’ll want to make small tweaks and adjustments. Maybe gasoline costs […]

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Actually, your PearBudget account pages are already printer-friendly. We designed PearBudget so that if you want to print those pages out, you can, and they’re already formatted to look nice coming out of your printer. This way, you don’t have to find a special “printer-friendly” version of your data — it’s all printer-friendly.

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There sure is! https://www.pearbudget.com/recurring_receipts. If you want to then delete one of them, just open up the category pop-up (by clicking on the category name), reveal the advanced controls (by clicking on the gray bar at the bottom of the pop-up box), and then remove the recurring receipt.  

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Absolutely! You can view all of your receipts by going to https://www.pearbudget.com/all_receipts. If you have a bunch of receipts entered, the page will take a little while to generate, so it’s safe to go get a cup of coffee after you click the link.

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