Checklist, budget and moodboard

How do I set up my budget?

Open Budget on your dashboard and give each category a planned amount in rupees. Eight are there to start; add your own. The total is the sum of the lines. Record what you have paid against each, and the Overview shows spent against planned.

Budget starts with eight categories, from venue and catering to photography and decor. Change the names, delete what you do not need, and add lines for anything else. The placeholder for a new line is a hint about what people forget: the poruwa and the ashtaka.

Step by step

Open Budget on your dashboard.
Tap Edit allocations. Give each category a planned amount, rename or delete the ones you do not need, and use Add category for anything missing. The total is the sum of the lines.
Write the quote and the deposit on each vendor you save. They show here as paid and still due, against the line they belong to.

The Budget tab: total budget, paid, pending and remaining as four tiles, then the budget breakdown — Step 2: the Budget tab

Planned against paid

Planned is what you expect to spend on a line.
Paid is what has actually gone out. Deposits count.
The Overview shows the two side by side, so you can see the gap before it becomes a problem.

When you mark a saved vendor Booked, the app offers to put the amount into the matching budget line, so the price you agreed and the budget you are tracking do not drift apart.