More flexible contribution scheduling options
This suggestion combines a few existing requests with some new ones of my own...
Essentially I'd like to see many more options to schedule contributions than just once per month. There should be two selections as follows:
* First, select a frequency:
-- Once per week
-- Once every two weeks
-- Twice a month
-- Once a month
-- Once every two months
-- Once every three months
-- Once every six months
-- Once a year
-- Manually
* Second, select a starting date
Then, schedule the first contribution on the starting date and the remaining contributions following the selected frequency. Manual contributions would allow for ad-hoc savings without forcing transactions at any particular time.
Thanks!
Alan
Essentially I'd like to see many more options to schedule contributions than just once per month. There should be two selections as follows:
* First, select a frequency:
-- Once per week
-- Once every two weeks
-- Twice a month
-- Once a month
-- Once every two months
-- Once every three months
-- Once every six months
-- Once a year
-- Manually
* Second, select a starting date
Then, schedule the first contribution on the starting date and the remaining contributions following the selected frequency. Manual contributions would allow for ad-hoc savings without forcing transactions at any particular time.
Thanks!
Alan
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Inappropriate?@Alan,
This is great. We've been talking about this quite a bit over here at SmartyPig and we will definitely be adding additional scheduling options in 2nd or 3rd quarter of this year.
Thanks again! Really like how you've laid this out.
Mike Ferrari, co-founder
I’m thankful for the suggestion
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Inappropriate?I'd also include that while I would love different frequencies, I would also encourage SP to let me choose a different deposit date for each goal. If I have multiple goals setup, it can be a pretty big chunk that I wish would be transferred at different times of the month so I don't see such a big swing in my finances.
A BIG part of a successful savings goal is almost not knowing, or feeling the effects of the savings. SmartyPig does not address this, in fact, SmartyPig is the opposite of this approach. Smaller contributions on a weekly/bi-weekly level is much more attainable to most people rather than feeling like you're paying 2 rent checks every month. -
Inappropriate?@parterburn,
Agreed, and we will ultimately be moving the start date to the goal level as opposed to assigning it to the funding source. This will make it very easy for each goal to have a unique start date. In the interim, you can actually achieve this by creating multiple funding sources with different funding dates.
Thanks again! -
Inappropriate?@alan & @parterburn,
Today we launched a number of new features, including new retailers and higher boosts, additional withdrawal options (ex. once a month, twice a month, every 14 days and none), the ability to set your own recurring dollar amount, ability to transfer from one goal to the next, and when it comes time to close your goal the ability to parse your savings across all three redemption options. Please click on the link below to read all about it on our blog.
http://blog.smartypig.com/read/exciti...
Thank you.
Mike Ferrari, SmartyPig co-founder
@mferrari
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