Beacon BudgetB
Beacon Budget
Dec 30

Long press to fund expense

I like to manually fund my expenses. I noticed long press is currently unbound. It would be nice to be able to long press on an expense to instantly fund it from my free to spend budget, since currently this action is 5 clicks (open expense, click transfer, click amount needed, click check, press back to go back to expenses)
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Dec 30, 2021

That makes sense! Maybe long press could open a context menu with some quick actions. I didn't know about the "Fund Now" button! I wonder if there's a way to surface that better.

Dec 30, 2021

Collin Johnson: we're on the same boat 😅. Maybe DAS user guides will help surface that feature. At one point, I paused my funding schedules so DAS wouldn't execute them. Then used Fund Now to do it on my own time. But with the Funding Schedule Summary feature, I've since let DAS do the auto funding and I can review all bucket movement for that specific execution.

Dec 30, 2021

Anthony: Yeah, I'd normally let it handle itself, but on months like this one where I'm getting paid several days early due to holidays, it's nice to have that Fund Now option. I'll keep that in mind!

Dec 30, 2021

Collin Johnson: awesome! I'm glad this helps. I do think a quick action popup would be the way to go. For now I'm thinking smart-fund (for DAS auto calcs), full fund, empty, and maybe pause/resume.

Dec 30, 2021

Hmm. I'm not opposed to this idea, but would want to wait a little while before I permanently decide to bound long-pressing to quick funding. If it helps in the meantime, you can't tap the transfer button directly from the buckets page to transfer, you don't have to go into the bucket detail page at all. And if you're funding multiple buckets (and I can see how clicks matter here), try tapping on the edit button for the Funding Schedule and select the Fund Now option. That'll give you a UI where you can do a multi-transfer to many buckets at once. It also has options to auto-calculate amounts for the next funding schedule or just fully fund buckets. Great thinking of having long-press be an action