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Discover the Best Australian Budget App for Your Personal Finances!

Personal Budget App

MoneyFormula App

The easy way to budget your expenses, crush your mortgage and beat the cost of living in just 10 minutes!

MoneyFormula - Australian Personal Budget App

"The perfect Budget Software with Australian bank sync, local support and 100% Australian made and loved."

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MoneyFormula - Google Five Star Review
"If you've read barefoot investor or would like to manage your money like a pro, MoneyFormula will make your life easy and help you save! My experience has been fantastic, and any questions I had, Matthew was able to answer efficiently. Could not recommend MoneyFormula enough!"

MoneyFormula

The Australian

Budget Software

Best Budget Software Manage Accounts. Budget Your Income
Best Budget Software Spending Review. Review Your Spending
Best Budget Software Wealth Goals Plan Your Expenses
Best Budget Software Pay Down Debt. Pay Down Debt Faster
Best Budget Software Easy Bank Audit. Achieve Your Goals
Best Budget Software Crush My Mortgage. Crush Your Mortgage
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Best Budget Software Bank Sync (Open Banking). Automate Your Bank Feeds
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Budget Software - Australian Made - for iOS iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac OS X, Windows.
Budget Software - Australian Made.
Budget Software - for iOS iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac OS X, Windows.
MoneyFormula - Australian Personal Budget App.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is MoneyFormula Australian owned, run and supported? and does all my information stay in Australia regulated by Australian laws?
YES - MoneyFormula is 100% Australian owned and is 100% run in and from Australia.

All support is handled within Australia.

All your data is protected by Australian business and data custodian laws.

MoneyFormula provides Open Banking as an accredited CDR Representative (under licensed Accredited Data Recipient ADRBNK000246), part of Australia's Consumer Data Right legislation.

All your personal finance data stays within Australia, with one of the leading cloud hosting providers in Australia that adheres to stringent cybersecurity standards and certifications. Please refer to the Privacy and Security page available from the About page for full details.
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Can I use Bank Sync (Open Banking), File Import AND Manual Entry all on the same account?
YES - MoneyFormula gives you total flexibility when it comes to importing accounts and transactions.

You can use Bank Sync via Open Banking, file import (OFX, QIF, CSV, TXT) and manual entry on any account, and you can use a combination of all three.

MoneyFormula provides access to Australia's top 120 financial institutions via Open Banking as an accredited CDR Representative.

You can use Bank Sync to automatically create accounts and sync recent and future transactions, while using file import to fill out older history before your sync start date. The import wizard will automatically guide you through keeping the two aligned.

For institutions that haven't joined Open Banking you can use file import.

And for accounts where there will never be transactions, for example property, your car, gold bullion, you can manually add transactions and balances at any time to track your other assets and debts.
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Do I have to use Bank Sync and Open Banking if I want to use MoneyFormula?
NO - Bank Sync and Open Banking are completely optional and a personal choice. You can use file imports or manual entry if you don't want to sync to your bank automatically.

If you start manually adding accounts, then decide you want to use Bank Sync and Open Banking at a later time, no problem, you can simply link the accounts you have already created via the Bank Sync screens and they will automatically sync going forward, while keeping all your existing history.

If you sync first and create accounts, you can use the file import to load historical information.

You get to choose what you import, how you import it and when you import it.
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Can I track my mortgage and save thousands in interest?"
Yes - MoneyFormula's unique Mortgage Tracker goes way beyond a simple online calculator.

You can track your home loan from start to today, model the impact of rate changes, plan extra repayments, link your offset account and see your forecast vs actual position over time - all in one budget app.

You can set up a goal to crush your mortgage - simply choose between setting a date you want to be debt free by, or enter a number of years you want to cut off your mortgage, or enter an extra amount you want to pay and MoneyFormula will instantly show you your savings and keep you on track every step of the way.

Once you enter your loan details, start playing with the tools and discover how to beat your mortgage. Watch the roadmap to success videos to see how Bob and Jill find potential savings of $73,477 within 10 minutes.
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Does this personal budget app work on all devices including iPhone, Android, iPad, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows?
YES - The MoneyFormula App is designed to work on all modern devices (mobile, tablet, laptop and desktop) and will automatically scale depending on your screen size; so apart from a couple of slight layout changes (menu bottom or side, etc.) you get the same full version no matter what device you use.

Download the native iOS app from the App Store or the Android app from Google Play, or use the browser version on any device from mobile to laptop or desktop (Mac, Windows or Linux)

This is great because you don't have to use a "web" version for some personal budget tasks and the "mobile" version for other personal finance things; the same app means you can do everything from any device.

You can also access your personal finance data 24/7 from multiple devices as you move throughout your day (e.g. laptop at home, mobile while out and about, desktop at work, tablet at home, etc.) and the app will share the same data between all your devices so if you update your personal finance data on one it is available on the others.
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Is this personal finance app designed for the Australian homeowner and personal finances or is it an app for financial professionals (mortgage brokers, financial planners, etc.)?
MoneyFormula is 100% designed for the Australian homeowner to manage their personal finances.

It is not one of those overly complex financial planning products designed for the finance industry that is then also released onto the public.

From start to finish, top to bottom, MoneyFormula is a mortgage and personal finance app designed to put you in control of your personal finances, that is easy to use, yet extremely powerful.
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Ready to Level Up Your Personal Finances?
Budget Your Income
Set up your budget in minutes, plan your expenses and instantly discover how to stretch your income further.
Best Budget Software to budget expenses and spending.
MoneyFormula gives you a complete picture of your finances in minutes, as well as a handy month-by-month view of your next 12 months of expenses - all without the pain of having to track every dollar.
Let the MoneyFormula budgeting reports help you plan your expenses and track your spending in minutes.
With the budgeting tools, you simply capture your income and enter your planned expenses and the personal budget app will help you calculate your realistic bucket amounts and your current safety buffer.

View your budget as weekly, fortnightly, monthly or any frequency you need, and set the months that bills fall in. The next 12 month report then maps each month of the year with repeating bills and one-off bills so you can see exactly what you need from month to the next.
Review Your Spending
Find out exactly where your money is going and discover your spending habits, your biggest expenses and your hidden savings.
Best Budget Software spending review and cost of living.
BONUS - MoneyFormula comes with a full set of Australian spending categories (parent categories and subcategories) that you can customise to suit your needs, and with Bank Sync and the Auto-Matching tool all the hard work categorising your spending is done for you.
Let the MoneyFormula personal budget app spending review tools help you beat the cost of living
With the app spending review and budgeting tools you can instantly categorise your recent income and spending, giving you a true picture of your expenses. Compare the amounts to your budget and keep your personal finances on track!

Get started straight away with a full set of spending categories, set up at parent category and subcategories so you can hit the ground running. Need to add your own categories? Want to switch off existing categories that don't apply? No problem - head over to the Customise Category section and go for it.

Use the bank sync tool (via Open Banking) to keep your accounts up to date, and MoneyFormula's unique auto-matching tool that automagically categorises your spending transactions for you. It learns as you match and uses a combination of partial matching, exact matching, merchant codes and the ultimate power tool of rule setting where you can decide exactly what should happen.
Track Everything You Own
From bank accounts, credit cards and your mortgage through to investments, super and property - even your car, boat and gold bullion - see everything in one place.
Best Budget Software to track what you ewe and own.
MoneyFormula will help you discover your Net Worth and then using the unique Wealth View it will help you dial in on your income-producing assets so you can watch your wealth grow.
Let the MoneyFormula personal budget app help you track everything you own and owe and let you watch your wealth grow.
With the personal budget app tools you can track your bank accounts, credit cards, properties, buy now pay later accounts, personal loans, shares & funds, mortgages, cryptocurrencies, investment loans, savings goals, other asset and debts!

As you track everything you own and owe within the one convenient personal budget app, the Net Worth, Wealth View and Debt Profile tools will automatically summarise your holdings.

Use bank sync (via secure Open Banking), file import, manual entry or a combination of all three on any account, giving you complete flexibility manage your accounts your way.
Pay Down Debt Faster
Credit Cards? BNPL? Afterpay? Pick your debt strategy, lock it in and crush your debt sooner.
Best Budget Software to pay down bad debt.
MoneyFormula lets you compare the different debt strategies - snowball, avalanche or custom - and instantly shows you when you will be debt free and how much you will save.
Let the MoneyFormula personal budget app Debt Crusher report help you pay down bad debt sooner!
With the Debt Crusher tool, simply enter the bad debts you want to crush, pick a debt repayment strategy (snowball, avalanche, custom) and the personal budget app will instantly show you when you will be debt free, how much you will save and how to achieve it.
Achieve Your Goals
Pick your savings and wealth goals and see in real-time exactly what it will take to achieve them.
Best Budget Software achieve your finance goals.
MoneyFormula will help you, whether you want to save for a holiday or new car, set up an emergency fund, crush bad debt, save a home deposit or pay off your mortgage - line up your goals and instantly see the future.
Let the MoneyFormula personal budget app goal planning tools help you see your future in real-time
With the MoneyFormula app unique goal planning tools you can instantly see when you will achieve each of your personal finance goals, whether you are creating an emergency fund, paying down bad debt or crushing your mortgage.

As you adjust your goals and track your progress the personal budget app will provide you with real-time projections of all your goal end dates and amounts saved.
Crush Your Mortgage
Use the Mortgage Tracker to outsmart your bank and stop boosting their profits.
Best Budget Software to crush your mortgage.
MoneyFormula is the Australian budgeting app with the tools to put you in control of your mortgage.

Track your home loan from start to today, model the impact of rate changes, plan extra repayments and link your offset account - then discover how much you could save and when you will be mortgage free.
Let the MoneyFormula personal budget app mortgage crusher tool help you pick your mortgage free option and make it happen.
With the budget app mortgage crusher tool you can take control of your mortgage, set up a plan to cut years off your debt and find out how much you will save and what it will take to stay on track to beat the bank.
MoneyFormula Has Everything You Need
Packed with all the features to put you in control of your personal budget.
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Bank Sync via Open Banking
Automatically sync transactions from Australia's top 120 financial institutions via MoneyFormula's Bank Sync.

You can also import files using common file format (QFX, QIF, CSV, TXT), manually enter transactions, or use a combination of all three on any account.

Fast, Flexible, Secure.
MoneyFormula App Bank Sync via Open Banking.
MoneyFormula provides Open Banking access as an accredited CDR Representative (under licensed Accredited Data Recipient ADRBNK000246), part of Australia's Consumer Data Right legislation.
Unique to MoneyFormula
See your future with the Real-Time Answers!
At the heart of MoneyFormula is the powerful real-time financial engine where all the magic happens to let you instantly see what the future holds.
MoneyFormula - Australian Personal Budget App
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See When It Will Happen & How Much It Will Cost!
MoneyFormula - Beat your mortgage
Beat your mortgage
See how much you will save, in real-time, as you tweak the debt repayment settings to crush your mortgage and pay down bad debt.
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Turbocharge your wealth goals
Get real-time projections of when all your wealth goals will finish, as you adjust your goals, amounts and repayments.
MoneyFormula - Easy to get started
Stress-free finances
No more worrying about interest rate rises or the impact of the cost of living - as you will have already planned for them before they happen.
MoneyFormula - Easy to get started
Make informed decisions
No more guessing or wishing for different outcomes - you are now in control.
Everything is kept up to date automatically so you always have the latest figures at your finger tips.
Ready to Start?
Get instant access to everything MoneyFormula has to offer and see how easy it is to use.
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Simply sign in below (any device) or download the mobile app from the app stores!
* Start Your 14-Day FREE Trial - All you need is a valid email address - No subscription, purchase or credit card required!
Banks, Supermarkets and the Cost of living getting the better of you?
MoneyFormula - Beat Your Bank
Have you noticed the system is stacked against you?

The banks have set up your debt repayments to maximise their profits.

The supermarkets know how to make you spend more.

The cost of living on everything keeps climbing.

But with MoneyFormula you can do something about it - no matter where you are starting from!
Savings of $73,477
Using MoneyFormula, Bob & Jill went from financial crisis to savings of $73,477 within 10 minutes.
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The MoneyFormula App Four Simple Steps
MoneyFormula - Four Steps to Success
All Bob & Jill did was follow the MoneyFormula four steps to success...
Pay Yourself First
They synced their accounts, and discovered over $73,000 in savings by paying themselves first.
Create a Quick Budget
They planned their expenses and instantly discovered how to stretch their income further.
Crush Debt
They tried the debt strategies, locked in to be debt free 10 years sooner and save over $195,143.
Review Spending
They identified their biggest expenses over the last three months and freed up another $250 a month.
TIP - See How They Did It!
Watch Bob & Jill's step-by-step journey in the Roadmap to Success video series - from financial crisis to beating the bank!
Personal Finance App Roadmap to Success
The video series is available from your MoneyFormula dashboard.
Discover YOUR Savings Today
MoneyFormula
Start Now - Try it FREE!Start Now - Try it FREE!
Simply sign in below (any device) or download the mobile app from the app stores!
* Start Your 14-Day FREE Trial - All you need is a valid email address - No subscription, purchase or credit card required!
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What are others saying?
Here is a sample from the HomeMoneyManager Google reviews page. Thank you everyone for the five star reviews and for the kind words. Much appreciated!
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I have been using this software for two types of loan accounts; a standard variable mortgage loan and a fixed interest loan. It works perfectly for both loan types and it is easy to use as well as accurate and reliable. I also like to say that the support provided to answer questions was fantastic. Matthew was very helpful and thorough. I am so grateful for his amazing extra help.
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I am using Home Money Manager for over 10 years (lost track really) Its an easy to use program and help me keep track of my accounts.
Best Budget Software Google Five Star Review
... I can keep right on top of where my money's being spent. I'd be lost without it. I run the software on a MacBookPro and it has been very reliable. On the rare occasion when I've had to contact the support team for some advice, they have been very prompt and helpful. I would definitely recommend you check them out.

"The MoneyFormula app - The best Australian personal budget app to manage your budget and crush your debt!"

Who owns MoneyFormula and Home Money Manager?
Hi, my name is Matthew and I am the author of MoneyFormula and the founder and owner of HomeMoneyManager.

For the past 20 years I have been helping fellow Australian homeowners with innovative personal finance solutions to help crush debt and take control of the cost of living.

I won't bore you with all my details (kids, house, pets, life, etc.) as this is about you, not me, and the exciting journey you are about to go on.

But if you have any questions please reach out to me via the contact section on this site or from within the support pages of the app.

Ok, enough chit-chat from me - let's get to it.

Good luck!
Budget Software FAQs
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1. Does MoneyFormula include a pre-loaded list of Australian spending categories with parent categories and subcategories and can I customise them?
YES - MoneyFormula comes pre-loaded with a full set of Australian spending categories to help you budget your income and review your spending within minutes.

There are parent categories (for example, Home, Transport, Entertainment, Daily Expenses, etc) and under each of them there is a set of subcategories that you can assign to transactions (for example: Home - Gas, Home - Water, Home - Electricity, etc).

But sometimes you need a bit more. Want to hide income and expense categories that don't apply to you? Need to add a few of your own special categories?

Head over to the "Customise Categories" option from the main menu, and you can hide existing categories (for example "Daily - Pet Care" if you have no pets), or you can easily add your own parent categories and subcategories (for example, "Rental Property - Strata Fees").

You get the best of both worlds, quick and easy set up using the existing spending categories designed to help get the Australian household up and running in no time, and flexibility for you to customise as you need.

Spending categories work seamlessly across automatically synced bank transactions, imported transactions and manually entered transactions, and best of all the MoneyFormula AutoMatcher tool does most of the work for you.
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2. How do I assign spending categories to my transactions and does the AutoMatcher tool and Bank Sync work together to categorise my transactions automatically?
You can assign categories to transactions manually and automatically.

Manually you simply find the transactions you want, click on spending categories and pick from the list.

MoneyFormula also has a unique tool called the AutoMatcher that helps automatically pick spending categories for you as transactions are created (via Bank Sync, file import or manually). It uses a combination of techniques based on descriptions, merchant codes, exact matching and rules, your previous selections and any rules and setting you tweak.

As you first review your spending and decide which categories apply to you and how you want to group up you information, the AutoMatchers learns and repeats what you do, automatically assigning spending categories for you. This all works by default so you don't have to do anything.

But sometimes you might want more control so you can include powerful rules of your own. For example you could set up two rules to help MoneyFormula know the difference between fuel and groceries with Rule 1: "If the description contains COLES and EXPRESS then set the category to Transport - Fuel", and Rule 2: "If the description contains COLES and not EXPRESS then set the category to Daily - Groceries & Shopping". Rules are totally optional and it most cases you won't need them.

Another great way to assign categories is the bulk edit option in the transaction screen. For example select, say you want to find all the different places you've park and assign them to the 'Transport - Parking', you simply go to the transaction search function, type in 'parking' and select all the transactions. Using the bulk edit tool you can then pick your category and all the transactions will get updated. Even better, the AutoMatcher will learn all this and tag your parking transactions for you automatically in future.

One last tip, MoneyFormula lets you filter your transactions by 'Uncategorised', so it is very simple to see what is left that is missing a category.
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3. Does MoneyFormula help me budget my income and plan expenses specifically for the Australian cost of living?
YES - In just five minutes you can set up a great budget and get a really clear picture of how your expenses are tracking against your income. With the pre-built list of Australian spending categories (both parent categories and subcategories) it is just a case of adding your best guess.

The first thing to do is list out all your income sources and when you receive them, for example "Salary $3,400 Monthly", "Side Hustle $100 Weekly" and "Government Benefits $230 Fortnightly". MoneyFormula will automatically convert them Monthly amounts (or you can choose any frequency, like Weekly if you want to know what you need a weekly, or Fortnightly if trying to match your pay, or Yearly if you want a quick estimates of your total yearly income and outgoings).

Next you quickly open up each parent spending category, and allocate your best guess to the spending subcategories that apply to you. As you go through just mentally think how much you spend on each, like "Home - Gas $90.00 Monthly", "Home - Water $60.00 Monthly", and so on. As you fill in the values the charts are updated in real-time so you can start to see your biggest expenses.

You can add multiple items to a subcategory if you want to track your budget in more details. For example, you have the options of entering "Entertainment - Subscriptions $75 Monthly" or if you prefer you could set up each individual subscription "Entertainment - Subscriptions [Netflix $20 Monthly][Stan $15 Monthly][Kayo $40 Monthly]". MoneyFormula will correctly group up everything for you so it is personal choice how much details you add.
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4. Does MoneyFormula manage quarterly Australian bills, like council rates, water, and strata, and yearly Australian bills like my home insurance, within my budget?
YES - For bills that come in less frequently, like Quarterly council rates, Half yearly car services or annual insurance policies, MoneyFormula lets you capture them like any other bill where you add the amount and frequency (for example, "Home Insurance $1,200 Yearly") however you then have the option to handle the amount in two different ways in your budget. Either as monthly averages, or you pick the actual months the bills fall in.

For example, if you enter "Home Insurance $1,200 Yearly" and then pick "Pay in February", the whole $1,200 will be treated as an expense in February; and all other months will be set to $0.

If you choose 'No Month(s) Specified' then the amount will be split equally each month. For example, if you enter "Home Insurance $1,200 Yearly" with no month specified, it will be treated as a $100 income/expense in each month ($1,200 / 12 months = $100).
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5. Can I forecast my household expenses for the next 12 months to plan for my financial future?
YES - Once you go through an estimate you income and expenses, MoneyFormula will automatically work out how much you need each month, and show you the next 12 months from today so you have a clear picture to help you plan.

The Next 12 Months report gives you a clear picture of your month-by-month expenses that are coming up over the next 12 months. It is based on your latest budget and takes into account expenses that only happen on given months (e.g. if you have a yearly expense due in Feb then it will show up in Feb only).

For each month you can review the expenses that repeat every month (which include all of your weekly, fortnightly and monthly expenses) and you can review the extra expenses that will happen in a given month only (for example, any yearly and quarterly bills). It will also provide you with an estimate of your monthly expenses, as well as those that repeat each month.

You can select any month and drill down to see the totals by parent category and a chart so you can quickly see where the expenses are concentrated. You can also expand each of the parent categories and see all the bills and expenses that are due.
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6. Once I budget my income and enter my expenses can I get weekly and fortnightly averages of all my spending categories?
YES - MoneyFormula lets you see all your budgeted income and expenses amount as Weekly, Fortnightly, Monthly, Two-Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly or Yearly averages, and you can switch between them at any time and MoneyFormula will instantly update everything in real-time.

This is really handy, as normally you will enter your income and expenses into your budget as a whole range of mixed time periods, for example, "Fuel $100 Weekly", "Gym Classes $10 Weekly", "Water Bill $60 Monthly", "Car Service $600 Half-Yearly" and so on. MoneyFormula then automatically converts everything to a preferred period (Monthly averages by default) so you can easily see totals for a period.

You may normally work to a monthly budget so by default you leave your budget a Monthly averages. However being able instantly switch the report is really handy to help you plan, for example, if you need to know roughly how much you spend at Coles and Woolworths in a week, you could quickly select Weekly and see on average what your Groceries cost in a week.

Maybe you are going to take time off work for two months, so you need a quick estimate of what you spend over those two month and make sure you have enough saved away.
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7. Does MoneyFormula support the Barefoot Investor 'Bucket' approach and the 'Pay Yourself First' philosophy?
YES - The idea behind the MoneyFormula 'pay yourself first' approach is simple - when you set up your budget and add your income you use money flows to set aside some of your income into buckets before it disappears on expenses.

In your budget you can flow this money into three buckets:

1. Wealth Goals - For those grown up goals like paying down bad debt, creating an emergency fund, paying off your mortgage or saving for a home deposit.

2. Reward Savings - To help you save for those slightly longer term nice things you want, like a holiday, a new car or a new TV where the end date is just over the horizon.

3. Fun Spending - A small amount each month to spend on fun things, guilt free, and it is a good way of protecting your budget and staying sane!

Any income not allocated to a bucket will be available to cover your living expenses.

TIP - You can rename your buckets to anything you want via the User Account preferences section. So if you are a barefoot investor reader you could rename the above buckets to the Barefoot bucket equivalents, or any other naming of your choice.

It is important to find the right balance between your buckets and expenses. Start with bucket amounts that work for you, no matter how small. Once set up, you can easily add more to your buckets as your finances improve.

MoneyFormula will also help you track if your budget is on track or overallocated - and show you how to fix it.
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8. Can I review my spending habits and find biggest expenses across multiple Australian bank accounts in one view?
YES - MoneyFormula lets you pick the accounts you want to include on your spending reports, and then as you allocate spending categories to transactions (which the AutoMatcher will automatically do for you) they are all grouped up across all the accounts as totals under the spending parent category and subcategories.

For example, if you have five Coles transactions on your credit card and three Woolworth transactions straight out of your transaction account, when you assign them a category of "Home - Groceries" then all eight transactions will be totalled up together.

Therefore by simply assigning categories to transactions across all your spending accounts, you automatically get totals across all your spending making it really easy to see your spending habits.
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9. Can my partner and I both connect our bank accounts and view our combined household financial picture?
YES - MoneyFormula supports household bank sync for couples, partners and families. Normally only one person needs to create a bank sync connection. However if you have individual accounts via different bank logins and you want to manage them in MoneyFormula, include them in a combined household budget, and have an overall net worth position, then you simply set up two bank sync connections to the same bank.

For example, if you and your partner are with the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) then you could connect first via Open Banking with your credentials and pick your bank accounts (and any joint accounts). Then you select the MoneyFormula "Connect Another Person" option and link to CBA again, this time your partner uses their credentials (and just picks their accounts).

If you are already using MoneyFormula with a single bank sync connection, adding a second bank sync connection for your partner is straightforward and will not affect your existing setup or data. Each connection can be given a personalised name, for example 'Sarah' and 'James', making it easy to see at a glance whose accounts are whose within the MoneyFormula Bank Sync screen.

All the synced accounts from both Open Banking connections will then be available for you in MoneyFormula and they will all be kept up to date automatically as new transactions become available. You can connect multiple times to any of the 120+ Australian Banks available via Open Banking.

From a security point of view, each Open Banking connection uses the account holder's own bank credentials directly with their bank. MoneyFormula never sees or stores your banking password.
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10. Does MoneyFormula help me track my monthly cash flow comparing my income and expenses to see if I have been overspending in the past?
YES - MoneyFormula has an income and cash flow report that shows you month-by-month your last 12 months of income compared to actual spending, with the difference between them shown as your cash flow. The results are charted so it is really easy to see if your cash flow is staying positive (spending less than earned) or negative (spending more than earned)

You can expand each month to see the income amounts you received, and importantly the spending that happened. The spending is broken down into parent category total amounts so you get a clear picture of where your money is going. And for each month it lists your cash flow position.

As you tidy up your budget and review your spending the idea is to keep your cash flow positive, to keep you out of debt or having to dip into your emergency fund. The report is also great for highlighting bad months, for example if all your bills fall in a particular month, you can plan for so that you have the cash available.
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11. Can I group my spending over multiple months and view as totals spent? and also view as weekly or fortnightly estimated amounts to help me budget?
YES - When you assign spending categories to transactions across all your different accounts, they are totalled up together. You can then choose if you want your totals for the last month, or maybe for the last three months, or even the last 12 months and it will instantly show you the totals.

For example, if you have ten transactions for Coles in May, and another six transactions for Coles in April and another five transactions for Coles in March, you could simply give them all the spending category "Daily - Groceries" and then if you can instantly see the total for the three months.

As well as the total Coles spending over the three months, you can select Weekly and MoneyFormula will instantly show you your weekly Coles spending - which can be super handy if you are on a weekly wage so you know what you need on average each week.

Or if you are paid Fortnightly you can easily get fortnightly averages across all your spending categories, from 1, 2, 3, 6 or the last 12 months of transactions providing you with everything you need to plan and budget your expenses.
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12. Can I track my spending against my budget targets to see where I have money left and where I have spent too much?
YES - One of the great things about MoneyFormula is it lets you set up a budget to help you plan for future spending, review your actual transactions to work out your past spending, and then simply compare to the two to see where you are on track and where you are overspending.

The way this works is the budget section lets you enter your income and expenses and gives you an instant summary of where your money is going. It is quick, easy and a 'best guess' at what you think is happening, as well as a plan to help you move forward. For example, I think I will spend $100 on Groceries each week (Coles, Woolworths and Aldi)

The spending review looks then at your recent transactions and gives you an accurate picture of where your income actually went. It is 'based on facts' and lets you discover your spending habits and what you need to do to fix your budget. For example, you group up all your transactions from Coles, Woolworths and Aldi as Groceries and see that your actual spending is a weekly average of $130.

You get the best results by using the two together. First, set up your budget by taking a guess at your income and expenses (Groceries $100 Weekly). Then, review your last one to three months of expenses to find out exactly what is going on (Groceries $130 Weekly average).

Finally, compare your spending to your budget and instantly see where you need to make changes going forward. In our example, we were budgeting $100 a week for groceries (which was our original guess), but looking at our spending we can see it is more likely $130 a week, so we need to move some money around in the budget to cover it.

Comparing the spending reports to the budget is as simple as clicking on the Track to Budget option and it will automatically overlay the budget over your spending, and show you visually what needs attention. You can drill down into Parent Category comparisons, subcategory comparison and easily find out the spending transactions causing the trouble.
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13. Can I perform a side-by-side comparison of any two months to identify spending trends?
YES - MoneyFormula has a Monthly Spending report that provides you with a month by month breakdown of your overall spending by your major categories. Within this report you can select Comparison to see the difference between spending in any two months to get a quick picture of what has gone up and what has gone down.

You can use the comparison to see if you are on track with budget and spending goals you have set yourself. For example, if you have reviewed your subscriptions and they were at $75 a month, and your new goals is $50 a month you can compare a previous month to the current month and see how well you are tracking.

The report can also be really handy to help update your budget to allow for increases in cost of living. For example, you could compare today to your spending six months ago an instantly see which categories are changing. You may find Groceries, Electricity, Gas, Water and so on have all gone up 5% to 10% so it is time to review your budget. Has your income also gone up? or is it time to make some budget cuts to keep cash flow positive.

The Monthly Spending report is kept up to date automatically, so if you are using bank sync to automatically update your spending accounts and the AutoMatcher is automatically assigning your spending categories for you, then you have a complete spending trends at your fingertips in real-time.
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14. Can I export a month-by-month breakdown of my budget versus actual spending across all my parent categories and subcategories for the past 12 months into Excel or CSV format?
YES - The MoneyFormula budget software has an option from the Monthly spending report do download the last 12 months of spending history, including amounts and transaction counts, so you can easily dive into the details in Excel.

By default the csv extract will contain all of your spending for the last 12 months, made up by summarising all your spending transaction across all of your spending accounts, and grouping by spending subcategory. So you have access to very detailed information for the year. For example, if under the category 'Home - Phone & Internet' you have spending transactions for Telstra, Optus and your Aussie Broadband they will be added up by monthly total. If you had one transactions for each provider then you would see count of three.

If you want to also include your budget amounts in the budget software extract, then simply click the 'Track to Budget' option before exporting and the file will contain both monthly spending and budget amounts. So if for example in your budget you have 'Home - Phone & Internet [Telstra $50 Monthly][Optus $20 Monthly][Aussie Broadband $97 Monthly]' then the budget would show $167 each month, and 3 budget items.

So you have the flexibility to export just spending information, or spending and budget information to your excel spreadsheets.
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15. Can I track my total wealth, including bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages, property, superannuation, and physical assets like gold bullion and get a full view of everything I own?
YES - MoneyFormula is one of the few Australian budget software apps available that truly lets you capture everything you own and owe and give you a complete view of your strategic net worth, including bank accounts, credit cards, BNPL, personal loans, savings accounts, mortgages, property, superannuation, offset accounts, investment loans, cryptocurrencies, share portfolios through to physical assets like cars, boats, trailers, caravans, horse floats cash and gold bullion. There is no limit.

You can choose from the pre-defined account types that include Assets of type Bank Accounts, Properties, Shares & Funds, Cryptocurrencies, Superannuation or you can use the Other Assets for anything else (for example, your car, caravan, home and contents, boat, gold bullion or that rare stamp collection). And on the Debts side you can set up Credit Cards, Buy Now Pay Later, Personal Loans, My Mortgage, Investment Loans and again, use the Other Debts for anything else (which can be great for things like ATO Tax Debt, Parking Fines, Speeding Tickets or Loans from the bank of Mum and Dad).

MoneyFormula goes further that just Assets and Debts, and has a third account category of type Other, specifically set up to help you with savings goals like an Emergency Fund or a Home Deposit, as well as fun savings like that Holiday to Bali, or Hunter Valley Weekend Away or the new car.

Within the budget software you have total flexibility how you maintain the transactions and values of your entire wealth, from bank sync (via Open Banking with over +120 Australian banks), to importing files (OFX, QIF, CSV, TXT, etc) that you can download from your provider if they are not on Open Baking yet (for example, if you are with AustralianSuper, UniSuper, or a share trading platform not linked), through to manual data entry (for example, your property, car or gold stash).

You can use a mix of bank sync, import and manual entry on any asset, debt or other account and MoneyFormula will automatically guide you in keeping all imports and data entry accurate.
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16. Does MoneyFormula provide a total Net Worth view and a strategic Wealth View for income-producing assets, and why do I need both?
YES - The MoneyFormula budget software has both a total Net Worth (for all assets and debts) and a strategic Wealth View (for income-producing assets) providing you with two very important views over your wealth - and making MoneyFormula a stand out over all other budget apps in Australia.

Not sure what the difference is and why you need both? Let's go through them.

Your MoneyFormula total Net Worth is the traditional way to measure what you are worth. Simple. Straightforward. Adds up everything you own and subtracts everything you owe - your home, car, bank accounts, investments, all debts, the lot.

You will find this in most good budget apps, and the more accounts type you can add to the software the more powerful and comprehensive it is. For example, if you were using the Commonwealth Bank app and it only includes your CBA accounts then a net worth view is limited to a small part of your real wealth (just a few bank accounts). In the case of the MoneyFormula budget software, as it allows you to include absolutely everything you own and owe, it truly gives you the best view possible of your net worth.

MoneyFormula goes a step further, and with your strategic Wealth View you can limit the view to only include accounts you have tagged as Wealth Assets - the assets that actually contribute to producing income and building your long-term wealth. This means you would tag assets like your superannuation, share portfolio and investment properties as Wealth Assets, while excluding personal use items like your home and vehicles - giving you a clear and accurate picture of your wealth-building progress.

Here's why having both a total net worth and strategic wealth view is so powerful. One shows you the big picture of everything you own and owe, the other lets you focus in on what really matters for building wealth, and what will provide your income as you retire.

For example, your home might increase your Net Worth by $800,000 which is great to see, but if you live in it, it is not producing income. The strategic Wealth View lets you see which of your assets are actually working for you.

This makes the MoneyFormula budget software a heavyweight stand out in the Australian budget landscape as it automatically updates both views as you bank sync (via Open Banking), import files and manually update asset valuations, so you always have a clear view of your Net Worth and your Wealth positions.
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17. Can I see my full debt profile and categorise my debts including store cards, credit cards, BNPL, personal loans, my mortgage, investment loans, tax debt grouped by Bad Debt, Mortgage, Investment Debt or Other Debts?
YES - The MoneyFormula budget software has a dedicated Debt Profile area that automatically groups up all the debt accounts you enter into the software, from credit cards, store cards, Afterpay, buy now pay later (BNPL), pay day loans, personal loans, car finance, your mortgage, investment loans, margin loans and any other debt types (like ATO tax debt, solar panel loans, loans from friends and family, etc.) and automatically groups them up under four pre-defined categories: Bad Debt, My Mortgage, Investment Loans and Other Debts.

The debt profile then shows you the Total Debt per debt category including amount owing and percentage of total, and it shows the Debt Regular Repayments due per debt category so you can see total monthly minimum payments required and the percentage of your income going on different types of debt.

You can expand the debt categories at any time to get a full picture of the individual debt accounts under each, and you can set up goals to pay down different debt categories (eg Crush Bad Debt) and instantly see when you will be debt free based on your current budget allocations.

Knowing your debt types is an important part to budgeting and the debt profile makes it easy to see total good debt and total bad debt you have. The debt profile is automatically updated as you add new debts, and any time you change the balance, whether taking on more debt to pay for the holiday to Ayers Rock, or paying down that Myer card so you always have a clear picture of your outstanding debts.
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18. Can I compare debt repayment strategies—like Snowball, Avalanche, or Custom—to see which saves me the most interest and gets me debt-free the fastest?
YES - MoneyFormula gives you three different debt strategies you can choose from, snowball (or smallest balance first), avalanche (or largest interest rate first) or custom (where you choose the order most important to you). If you have more than one debt, the order you pay them off can make a big difference - both financially and emotionally, and MoneyFormula lets you test each at the click of a button so you can see which saves me the most money and which help you become debt-free the fastest.

For example, if you had four debts: A Latitude Visa with $800 owing at 24%, a Commonwealth Bank Mastercard with $2,500 owing at 22.9%, an ATO Tax Debt of $2000 at 10% and an ANZ Personal Loan for a car with $12,400 owing at 14%, let's look at what you would do under each strategy.

With MoneyFormula's smallest balance first strategy (sometimes called the Snowball strategy), this approach is all about quick wins and building momentum. MoneyFormula automatically lines up all your debts from smallest to largest balance and gets you to pay off the smallest one first, regardless of interest rate. Then the next smallest and so on until you are debt free.

From our example debts above, with the smallest balance first strategy MoneyFormula would line them up in this order to pay them in order of: [1] Latitude Visa ($800), [2] ATO Tax Debt ($2,000), [3] CBA Mastercard ($2,500) and [4] ANZ Personal Loan ($12,400).

With MoneyFormula's largest interest rate first strategy (sometimes called the Avalanche strategy), this approach is all about getting rid of the most expensive debt first. MoneyFormula automatically lines up all your debts from largest to smallest interest rate and gets you to pay off the largest rate first, regardless of balance. Then the next largest and so on until you are debt free.

From our example debts above, with the largest interest rate strategy MoneyFormula would line them up in this order to pay them in order of: [1] Latitude Visa (24%), [2] CBA Mastercard (22.9%), [3] ANZ Personal Loan (14%) and [4] ATO Tax Debt (10%).

With MoneyFormula's custom sort strategy, you arrange your debts in any order YOU choose. Sometimes the most 'emotional' debt is the one to tackle first. Getting rid of it can be a huge relief - even if it's not the mathematically 'best' choice.

You can even mix the strategies, for example, sort by smallest balance first then custom move an 'emotional' debt to the top.

From our example above, you might want to get rid of the tax debt first as you want to clear that off, so you choose smallest balance first, then custom move the tax debt to the front so you end up with [1] ATO Tax Debt ($2,000), [2] Latitude Visa ($800), [3] CBA Mastercard ($2,500) and [4] ANZ Personal Loan ($12,400).

How do you know which is the best debt strategy for you? The best strategy is the one that keeps you motivated and paying down debt. The good news is you can test all three strategies in MoneyFormula at the click of a button and see which one works for you.

Then pick your strategy, lock it in, and make it happen.
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19. Can I model RBA interest rate changes and plan for extra repayments while I wait for the bank to notify me of my increase in repayments?
YES - The MoneyFormula interest rate rise report will instantly show you the impact of any interest rate rise on your mortgage so you start planning for the additional repayments in your budget, before the rate rise happens.

For example, if you have a mortgage with Westpac and your rate is 5.75%, and the RBA announces there will be a 0.25% rate increase which Westpac says it will pass on in full in two week's time, you can go straight into the MoneyFormula interest rate rise report and see what the new rate of 6.00% (a rate increase of 0.25%) will do to your mortgage repayments, so you can start planning from today.

You can even plan further ahead and easily test 0.50% or 0.75% increase to predict the stress it will put on your monthly budget and start making budget changes in MoneyFormula to get the money ready. With the RBA meeting regularly to review rates, and the banks normally passing on interest rate increases in full, being prepared ahead of any announcement means you are never caught off guard by a change in your repayments.
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20. Can I track my home loan from the original start date to today to see my true progress?
YES - MoneyFormula lets you track your entire mortgage history and using the Mortgage Tracker you can review your progress, scenario plan (on interest rate rises, extra repayments, offset account balances, switching to weekly/fortnightly payments and review loan payout options), you can check your interest calculations for errors (to make sure the bank has linked your offset account, applied any discounts you are due and check they have applied the interest rate correctly) and you can lock in goals to crush your mortgage (by locking in a debt free date, locking in to cut X years off your loan, or linking it up to the wealth goal bucket from your budget).

MoneyFormula uses your latest mortgage information so that you always have up to date facts to review your mortgage and stay motivated to crush your debts. If your mortgage is with one of the 120 financial institutions on Open Banking (including popular Australia banks such as CommBank, NAB, Up Bank , Westpac, Ubank, ING, ANZ, Macquarie, Bendigo Bank, Suncorp and St. George Bank) then your mortgage balance will be automatically maintained for you allowing the Mortgage Tracker to instantly provide results any time you need them.
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21. Does MoneyFormula let me scenario plan on my mortgage, for example the impact of extra repayments, switching to weekly or fortnightly repayments, showing me how to lock in a debt free date, and showing me how much my offset account is saving me?
YES - MoneyFormula provides you with a suite of planning reports specifically for your mortgage and investment loan, including the Interest Rate Change Report, the Extra Payments Report, the Loan Payout Options Report, the Fortnightly / Weekly Payments and the Offset Benefits Report, all working off your latest mortgage details and giving you real-time answers to your scenarios to help you plan, cut interest paid, maximise your offset benefits, work out when you can afford to be debt free and keep you motivated to crush your mortgage.

The MoneyFormula Interest Rate Change Report lets you enter a new interest rate to see the impact on your current mortgage. For example, if you have a mortgage with Westpac and your rate is 5.75%, and the RBA announces there will be a 0.25% rate increase which Westpac says it will pass on in full in two week's time, you can go straight into the MoneyFormula interest rate rise report and see what the new rate of 6.00% (a rate increase of 0.25%) will do to your mortgage repayments, so you can start planning from today.

The MoneyFormula Extra Payment report lets you enter an amount to increase (or decrease) your current repayments to see the impact on your current mortgage. For example, if you add $100 to your ANZ mortgage repayments it will instantly show you how much you will save and how many years you will cut off of your loan.

The MoneyFormula Loan Payout Options report is a great way to lock in a debt free date and find out what you have to do to achieve it. You can pick an exact date; or you can choose one of the loan term adjustment options. Once entered you will see the new repayment amount you will need to pay and the interest remaining before your debt is paid off.

For example, if you have 23 years left on your Macquarie Home Loan, you could go in and lock in to be debt free 15 years from now, and MoneyFormula would lock in the date and show you the extra amount you would need to pay. The report automatically adjusts each time you run it, so if you have a bad month (for example, the Australian cost of living taking its toll) and fall behind your target amount slightly it will readjust and show you what you have to pay to catch up.

The MoneyFormula Fortnightly / Weekly Payments report quickly shows you how much you will save if you split your monthly payment amount into fortnightly or weekly payments. It relies on you paying 1/2 the monthly amount per fortnight; or paying 1/4 the monthly amount per week. This savings trick has been around for years, is easy to follow and it works. You end up making one extra monthly repayment over the year which goes towards the principal and reduces your interest.

For example, if your mortgage repayments were $1,000 a month with Aussie Home Loans, you would start paying $500 a fortnight or $250 a week. With monthly payments you would pay 12 * $1,000 = $12,000 a year out of your budget and into your mortgage.

However, with fortnightly payments you would pay 26 x $500 = $13,000 a year, which is $1,000 more. Similarly, with weekly payments you would pay 52 x $250 = $13,000 a year, which is also $1,000 more.

That extra payment ($1,000 in our example above) is the secret weapon to paying down your mortgage faster. It goes directly toward your principal balance, reducing the amount of your loan you're charged interest on. And MoneyFormula calculates these figures and shows you your exact savings for your mortgage at the click of a button.

The MoneyFormula Offset Benefits report will let you work out how much you can save using an offset account. Whether you have an offset account with ING, Ubank or any leading Australian mortgage provider, and whether you have a fixed amount that sits in your offset all of the time, or the balance varies throughout the month, you can nominate an average offset balance and instantly see the impact on your mortgage.

You can also enter an amount you want to add regularly in the way of extra payments, so even if you have a low offset balance right now, it will show you the total benefits over time. These days, lenders generally charge extra to add an offset to a mortgage. This report lets you check how much you are likely to save and therefore whether it is worth setting one up.

The huge benefit of using MoneyFormula's specialised mortgage reports and calculators over the online mortgage calculators available (like the Westpac's Home Loan Repayment Calculator, or the CommBank's Mortgage Repayment Calculator, or the Aussie Home Loans' Interest Rate Change Calculator), is that as you are already tracking your mortgage in MoneyFormula so it knows your exact balance, repayments, interest rate and term remaining, so at the click of a button you can get all the results you need.

Unfortunately, most online calculators make you re-enter your mortgage details every time you want to use them, even for the simplest of answers, and they often assume you want to take out a new mortgage (the bank wants to sign you up to) and therefore they don't always work on your mortgage that is partially repaid.

The great thing with the MoneyFormula integrated mortgage reports and calculators is that they have been specifically designed to work with all Australian mortgages. So it doesn't matter whether your mortgage is with one of the big bank lenders like the Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Westpac, NAB, ANZ, Macquarie Bank or ING, or if you are with a non-bank lender like Liberty Finance, Pepper Money, Bluestone Home Loans, Qantas Home Loans or an AFG funded mortgage, MoneyFormula will easily crunch your numbers and keep you one step ahead.
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22. Can I link my offset account to my mortgage in MoneyFormula to see my interest savings in real-time? and what if I have multiple offset accounts can I link them all to my mortgage?
YES - MoneyFormula allows you to link any number of offset accounts to your mortgage and it will use all the correct balances in the calculations when estimating your interest saved. You can customise the rules the bank applies to each of your offset accounts, for example is there is a minimum balance required before the offset is applied, whether there is start or end date to when the account was linked, or even if it shares the same interest rate with the mortgage or has its own interest rates.

The mortgage interest checker report recalculates and checks that the bank has been allowing you the correct offset balance in your calculations, with the reports showing you month by month how much it is saving you and total savings to date over all of your offset accounts.

The report is particularly useful to run if you have recently linked your offset accounts at the bank, so make sure they have correctly set things up in the legacy bank systems. There have been multiple cases of home owners paying for an offset account, seeing an offset balance, but the bank forgetting to link the accounts, so the homeowners were receiving zero benefit (despite paying extra for the offset facility). This level of offset account verification is not available in standard bank apps or generic budget software and is one of the great ways MoneyFormula goes beyond simple budgeting.
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23. Can MoneyFormula help me simultaneously save for a holiday, an emergency fund or a home deposit while crushing bad debt and projecting my exact mortgage-free date in real-time?
YES - MoneyFormula's Wealth Goal have been set up to help you create an emergency fund, pay down bad debt, save for a home deposit, as well as crush your mortgage and pay down investment debt. In addition, the Rewards Saving let you attach a savings goal to any of your bank accounts to help you save for anything else you are waiting to buy (for example, a new car, a holiday or a new TV).

You can pick which Wealth Goals you want to tackle by simply enabling them. For example if you wanted to create and emergency fund, then crush your bad debt, followed by your mortgage, you would go into the Wealth Goals and enable them, and then MoneyFormula will automatically work out then they will complete.

The Wealth Goals are integrated with your accounts and your budget so everything updates automatically in real-time. When you add debt accounts they are automatically added to the correct wealth goal. For example, if you add an ANZ credit card, an Afterpay account, a Westpac personal loan and a Myer store card they would automatically appear in the Crush Bad Debt goal.

The Wealth Goals bucket from your budget automatically gets applied to your Wealth Goals. So, if for example you set up a $50 money flow to your Wealth Goals in your budget, MoneyFormula would automatically apply the amount to your wealth goals, and calculate in real-time when each goal will complete, the amount of interest left to pay on each, and the snowball effect from one goal to the next. Update the budget amount to your wealth goals to $100 and in real-time you can see the impact.
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24. Does MoneyFormula keep my data secure with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and bank sync via industry standard Open Banking?
YES - By default MoneyFormula applies Multi-Factor Authentication to all new accounts to help keep your account access secure. In addition, MoneyFormula provides bank sync only via the secure Open Banking access as an accredited CDR Representative (under licensed Accredited Data Recipient ADRBNK000246), part of Australia's Consumer Data Right legislation.

As part of Open Banking MoneyFormula does not collect or store bank login usernames or passwords, instead you set up a consent directly with your bank (normally authorising through your bank app or mobile number registered with your bank).

In addition, all data entered and collected in the MoneyFormula web and mobile apps is encrypted in transit using SSL/TLS 1.2+ and encrypted at rest using AES-256.

Our cloud-hosted servers are located within Australia with one of the industry leading cloud hosting providers. Our cloud hosting provider adheres to stringent cybersecurity standards and certifications, including ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017:2015, 27018:2019, 27701:2019, 22301:2019, 20000-1:2018, 9001:2015 and CSA STAR CCM v4.0. They also maintain a PROTECTED certification under the Australian Cyber Security Centre's (ACSC) Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), allowing them to handle sensitive classified government data.

To help keep your data secure, the MoneyFormula mobile apps available from the Apple App Store and Google Play use the latest versions of the iOS and Android security frameworks in compliance with the respective stores' guidelines, and the MoneyFormula web app is designed to work on the latest web browsers, allowing you to run the app in the most up-to-date and secure environment available.
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25. Can I sync MoneyFormula across unlimited devices, including native mobile apps and desktop browsers and do I get the same great functionality across all my devices?
YES - The MoneyFormula Mobile Apps and the browser web app all stay in sync with each other, no matter which you use to update your information in. For example, on any given day you might update some of your budget details over the morning coffee using your laptop at home, on your commuter to work you use the iOS native mobile app to check your latest spending and adjust some of the spending categories, at lunch time you log in from your work computer to check how your goals are progressing and when you can escape on that holiday to Bali, on the way home you check the interest the impact of the latest interest rate rise, and that night back on your laptop you check your upcoming expenses.

Multiple devices, all providing the same functionality, all in sync so you can access MoneyFormula 24/7 and all handled for you automatically.
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26. Can I maintain historical data going back up to 30 years of transaction history and 99-year forward projections?
YES - MoneyFormula will easily let you maintain your entire mortgage history going back up to 30 years and by default all forward projections will forecast up to 99 years into the future if required.

If you find it disappointing that most Australian banks only provide 12 to 24 months of transaction history in their apps and online banking portals, or that some of the free budgeting apps start clearing your spending categories, then you are going to love MoneyFormula. Track your mortgage from the day you signed the papers, review your spending habits going back several years, or import historical bank statements you have saved over time, MoneyFormula handles it all.

The MoneyFormula transaction search and filter tools let you find and review any transaction across your entire history at any time, in seconds, making it easy to find old transactions, verify past payments or check your financial progress over any period you choose.

On the forward projection side, the 99-year horizon means MoneyFormula can model your mortgage, debt payoff dates, wealth goals and financial projections as far into the future as you need - whether you are planning to be mortgage free in 15 years or you want to line up multiple wealth goals one after the other MoneyFormula will churn out the numbers.
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