Budget Alert is smart, intuitive and effective! Manage and synchronize budgets across iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Create family budgets to instantly share budgets with family members.
With Budget Alert, you can plan your budgets, transfer budgets and share budgets; Keep track of expenses and income to monitor cash flow at your finger tips at any time!
Budget Alert's powerful reporting engine produces detailed PDF reports that can be emailed or printed directly from the app.
Setup and customize alerts when budgets are running low. Get pre-alert notifications when your next expense transaction is about to happen.
Budget Alert is packed with over 100 unique features ensuring all your budgeting needs are covered.
You can choose to use either iCloud sync or Budget Alert Cloud sync. Both services are free. iCloud service is provided by Apple but requires iOS 5; while Bill Alert cloud works for all iOS devices running version 4.0 or above.
See "Settings/cloud sync/iCloud vs Budget Alert cloud" for additional instruction.
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If your data is stored in either iCloud or Budget Alert cloud. Simply turn on iCloud or Budget Alert cloud to restore data.
Note: Restoring cloud data will overwrite local data.
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You should perform desktop backup feature frquently to safe keep most recent copies of your database. Even if you are using the cloud services for data sync, you should continue use the desktop backup feature to keep a copy offline. The backup database file can be used for restoring back to Budget Alert without iCloud or Budget Cloud. Goto "Settings/Backup and Restore", and follow the on screen instructions to perform backup or restore.
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1. Select the Edit Budget icon 
from the tab bar.
2. Select "Add Budget".
3. Set budget amount; budget name; budget cycle; budget start date and press "Save".
Hint 1: Turn ON "Balance Roll Over" if you want to carry over the unused buget amount to the next budget cycle.
Hint 2: Set budget alert ON triggers alert notification defined in the "Settings/Alert" for Budget Alert.
Hint 3: You can assign a photo for each budget by select "Add photo" next to the budget amount. A default icon will be assigned if a custom photo is not selected.
Hint 4: While in edit budgets mode, you can re-arrange budget display order by press and hold the "sort" icon to the right of each budget and drag up or down to arrange the display order.
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Total budget is the sum of all budgets. Adjusting each budget amount automatically calculates total budget amount. However you can manually set the total budget to be greater than the sum of all budget. To set total budget:
1. Select the Edit Budget icon from the tab bar.
2. Press the total budget amount value field.
3. Input total budget amount and press "save".
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1. Select the Edit Budget icon from the tab bar.
2. Select the transfer icon 
from the navigation bar.
3. Set transfer amount and select the source and destination budgets.
Hint 1: Transfer amount must be greater than $0.00; Source (From) budget must contain amount greater than $0.00.
Hint 2: Select transfer log to view transfer history.
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Budget history allows user to view income/expense transactions of past budget cycles.
Select to view a budget from the home screen and press the "History" button to view past budgeted transactions.
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1. Select the 
button from the tab bar.
2. Set income or expense by select the income / expense filter on top.
3. Input amount; Vendor name; select budget; transaction date and press "Save".
Hint: Inputted vendor names are automatically added to the vendor list
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1. Select the recurring icon 
from the tab bar.
2. Select "Add Recurring"
3. Set income or expense by select the income / expense filter on top.
3. Input amount, vendor name; select budget; choose start date; recurring cycle and press "Save"
Hint 1: Turn Alert "On" triggers local notification set in the Settings/Alert for recurring alerts.
Hint 2: Recurring badge can be turned off in "Settings/Alert".
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1. Select the report icon 
from the tab bar.
2. Select the appropriate report filter.
3. Rotate the pie chart report and touch selection to view transaction detail; press pie chart center button to view bar charts.
4. Press the Export icon 
on the upper left corner to view/email/print PDF or CSV reports.
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1. Goto Settings/Home currency and select desired currency for Budget Alert.
2. When input currency amount, select the currency button on the lower left corner of the number pad to access the built-in currency converter.
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