Fund fixed amount up to cap | Voters

Fund fixed amount up to cap

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Gavin Farrington

Currently we have two funding options. 1) Fund a calculated amount based on the number of paychecks until due date, or 2) Fund fixed amount forever.

Would love to have a blend of these two. 3) Fund fixed amount up to a cap, then stop.

November 8, 2021

AnonymousMan#234

Yes! To add to this I'd love to be able to set the monthly contribution target and the bucket cap to be different amounts. 
Aka: Contribute up to $200 a month, up to a total bucket amount of $300 and then stop.
This would give a bit of a budgetary cushion for months where I spend a little over budget on groceries, which then refills on months I spend under budget.

Anthony

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Anthony

Gavin Farrington I think this would be covered in https://dasbudget.canny.io/requests/p/create-customizable-recurrence-widget-for-buckets-and-funding-schedules
Just to make sure I'm 100% aligned with this request.. Is this the same as create a Goal in DAS and choosing the option to _not_ have the Goal repeat (the first recurrence option).
I think the only thing left would be for DAS to auto-calculate your end goal for you? 
An example: Save $200 a payday until with a target amount of $1,000? Then let DAS figure out the due date and not have it repeating.

Gavin Farrington

Anthony: Hmm... if it does get covered in that other feature, I don't quite see it.
Use-case for this idea: "I want a bucket that contains $500 of 'buffer' money, and whenever I'm below $500, I want to contribute $20/paycheck until I get to $500."
Under funding model 1 (from above,) if it's the last paycheck before the due date and I'm $100 short, DAS will grab $100 from my next paycheck (and likely prevent other buckets from fully funding.)
Under funding model 2, it will keep funding that bucket forever, even above $500.

Anthony

Gavin Farrington: I see now! The example was perfect. It's not related to the linked feature 😅
I'm wondering how I could merge this and https://dasbudget.canny.io/requests/p/allow-for-static-contribution-amounts-in-buckets together. They're similar in the way of wanting a static 
example $20 contribution

Gavin Farrington

Anthony: How about providing some kind of "stop" condition? Normally the stop condition is a due date, but could we also have bucket status (full, not full) as a stop condition?

Anthony

Gavin Farrington: yeah, I think that'll work! If there's a target amount it'll stop funding when reached.

If not, it'll just keep funding forever 👍

Gavin Farrington

Anthony: Perfect!