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Reimbursements
YNAB does not handle reimbursements well. In fact, it used to handle them better when select categories would allow a negative balance to rollover month to month.…
- Gray Wrench (5493e58daa24)
- Gray_Wrench_5493e58daa2
- 2 yrs ago
- 27 replies
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- mamster1 yr ago
- Small Business
A cautionary tale
I just listened to the YNAB podcast 131 My Semi-Annual review from 2014 and as I listened to it, it brought back a lot of (bad) memories of when I had my business.…
- MXMOM
- MXMOM
- 5 mths ago
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- Small Business
YNAB consultant looking to hire an assistant to nerd out on budgets and help support my clients.
Hey YNABers - My name's Mark. I worked at YNAB in 2013/14 and now I'm a full-time budget nerd, managing budgets for 20 small businesses. I'm looking to hire a fellow YNAB lover to help me give great…
- Mark Butler
- Pro Budget Nerd
- budgetnerdy
- 1 yr ago
- 8 replies
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- FanessYNAB Support1 yr ago
- Small Business
Save for Taxes vs Net worth
My husband sometimes gets income from freelance jobs. In Holland it is normal that you keep track of your freelance incomes in one year and the next year you pay what you owe (around june 2018 for…
- Marisss
- Pink_Mainframe.1
- 2 yrs ago
- 5 replies
- 1,657
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- Blue Harvest5 mths ago
- Small Business
YNAB for business
I own a small business and I used to use YNAB 4 for my business. I stopped when the current YNAB was released but recently restarted the budget. I would love to chat with people and see what working…
- Powder Blue Grizzly
- Powder_Blue_Grizzly_087
- 2 yrs ago
- 21 replies
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- broke ceo1 yr ago
- Small Business
Profit First
Hi! Has anyone read the book Profit First yet? It advocates some kind of 'envelope' system for different categories of biz income and expenses. It suggests to have multiple bank accounts to make…
- Winterlover
- Welmoed
- 2 yrs ago
- 16 replies
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- Cirrus2 wk ago
- Small Business
Using YNAB budget for both Personal & Business?
So I have one YNAB Budget for both our business and personal - anyone else going this? If so, any tips on how to best organize categories, groups, etc?…
- Turquoise Hail
- Turquoise_Hail.4
- 1 mth ago
- 6 replies
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- Sky Blue Tugboat1 mth ago
- Small Business
Side-Hustle
First - I wonder why there isn't an "Income" category in the forums. I mean, one way to make your budgeting easier is to generate more income! That can come in a raise, or investing in education,…
- Ryan Oakley
- Side-Hustler
- oakley
- 2 yrs ago
- 25 replies
- 2,530
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- TechieM210 mths ago
- Small Business
Any thought to a YNAB budgeting add-in for QBO?
My wife's business is being run through Quickbooks Online, and unfortunately we're not actively managing it to a budget at this point. The budget stuff built into QBO is terrible.…
- Shane Longtin
- slongtin
- 1 yr ago
- 4 replies
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- Rebekah Zobel Jones1 yr ago
- Small Business
How to Budget Multiple Rental Properties on YNAB?
I buy and sell mobile homes...weird, I know. I hate Quickbooks. It's not user friendly and I've wasted hours of my life trying to problem solve the smallest of issues.…
- Drew
- imthetalent
- 3 mths ago
- 7 replies
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- NicoleYNAB Support3 mths ago
- Small Business
Does anyone here make money blogging?
I have considered blogging to make extra money but it looks like a lot of work for little reward. Any thoughts? My main “skill” is something I am not allowed to do for money since my job disallows…
- MXMOM
- MXMOM
- 6 mths ago
- 10 replies
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- Digital Diva6 mths ago
- Small Business
YNAB-friendly Financial Planners and CPA recommendations
I'm new to the forums, but I didn't see this information anywhere. I apologize if it is. My family owns a small business (restaurant) and we use Quickbooks for bookkeeping.…
- HBC
- Reluctant Bookkeeper
- Beige_Pegasus.1
- 1 yr ago
- 11 replies
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- BookCat6 mths ago
- Small Business
How much is furniture assembly worth?
Hey everyone! I'm thinking about starting a side hustle assembling furniture - IKEA and the like. I'm quite handy with a screwdriver and I'm pretty darn good at deciphering the instructions.…
- TheTabby
- Just a common cat trying to budget uncommonly well.
- TheTabby
- 6 mths ago
- 6 replies
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- rolltide6 mths ago
- Small Business
Business Budget Categories
I am looking into setting up my business budget with ynab. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their business budget's category structure to help give me ideas on what to include in…
- Navy Blue Foal
- Navy_Blue_Foal.5
- 7 mths ago
- 3 replies
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- Digital Diva7 mths ago
- Small Business
Profit First invoice tracking question for small business
Hi, I've been hearing about the Profit First method which I'm quite interested in using in YNAB. But I have a question about invoicing. I have a service-based business which means that I will…
- Skylark
- skylark
- 10 mths ago
- 6 replies
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- KD603NH9 mths ago
- Small Business
I'm considering combining my 2 small business & personal budget in to 1 budget
I would love feedback from @Todd @Emily or @Jen and anyone else who is struggling with juggling multiple budgets as to whether or not you think it is a good idea to combine my 2 business and 1…
- Marilynn Taylor
- Marilynntaylor
- 2 yrs ago
- 11 replies
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- KD603NH10 mths ago
- Small Business
transfer money between budgets?
Can you transfer money between budget accounts. I need to be able to transfer money from my personal account into my business and the other way around. But, they are in separate budgets.…
- Purple Captain
- Purple_Captain.2
- 1 yr ago
- 6 replies
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- Purple Captain1 yr ago
- Small Business
Freelancer here - How old should my money be?
Hello, YNABers! I am a freelance musician and have been using YNAB since I became freelance in January to help me see my money clearly with my variable income.…
- Hot Pink Disk
- Hot_Pink_Disk.1
- 1 yr ago
- 4 replies
- 1,063
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- Formal Dribble1 yr ago
- Small Business
YNAB for house flipping business?
Does anyone use YNAB for their business that buys, sells and rehabs houses? If so how do you break down the properties and expenses associated with them?
- Hot Pink Motherboard
- Hot_Pink_Motherboard
- 1 yr ago
- 3 replies
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- FanessYNAB Support1 yr ago
- Small Business
How To for 1) Business Payroll Deductions 2) GST 3) SquareUp
Can someone please take me through the steps for setting up and editing transactions for business? 1) Here in Canada, we have to pay premiums on top of the wages (CPP and EI) to the government.…
- Cyan Guitar
- Cyan_Guitar
- 1 yr ago
- 3 replies
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- JanelleYNAB Team1 yr ago
- Small Business
New Small Home Based Business
I'm am in the process (and have been) of creating a small home-based business. I can't afford new business accounting software so I am hoping YNAB will work.…
- akkoch
- akkoch
- 2 yrs ago
- 23 replies
- 2,399
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- Jen2 yrs ago
- Small Business
Rule #1 with a Business Account
I'm a freelance web developer and have 2 budgets set up in YNAB; Family and Business. My business account is strictly business and at the moment is pretty small with 3 Immediate Obligations and 4…
- Lawrence
- lawrence
- 4 mths ago
- 6 replies
- 222
- FanessYNAB Support2 wk ago
- Small Business
Apps that track financial goals?
Hi! Does anyone use an app or spreadsheet that's good for visualizing your financial goals per quarter or year? I'm looking for something like what Cushion app does - https://cushionapp.com/ ...…
- Annie
- Creative
- headexplodie
- 3 wk ago
- 1 reply
- 55
- MatthewYNAB Support3 wk ago
- Small Business
Creating separate budgets for personal and business
I've been using YNAB for a while but to be honest I've been really bad about looking at the budget instead of the account balances. I'm thinking about making a clean break and starting my budget…
- Jeff Altman
- Jeffycupcake
- 3 mths ago
- 22 replies
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- farfromtheusual1 mth ago
- Small Business
How to budget
I am using this for business which I know it is not designed for and make it harder. I have alot more transactions to manage. The way I setup the budget was to create a category for each week with…
- Slate Gray Deer
- Slate_Gray_Deer.7
- 1 mth ago
- 2 replies
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- dakinemaui1 mth ago
- Small Business

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