Hi, in Ynab if I am starting a new rental lease for a new apartment next month and make the payment this month I see it hits my current month’s rent (which is the last month of my current apartment but has already been paid). Is there a way to have the current month’s payment hit the next month’s rent?

Only if you change the date and say it comes out of your account next month. You can’t take out money currently and tell it it’s for a future purchase. YNAB operates under the basic premise that you pay for what you only have the money for now. Not based on future money. If you have the money in your account, what you can do is move it from March (let’s say you have rent money categorized in March for $1000.) Move they money to February so it looks like you had a massive rent payment but at least it won’t be red anywhere and then in March you don’t have to put any rent money in the rent category.

So I have an idea of what your idea means. That I add the extra amount from March to the assigned amount from February but I don’t enter the payment until March. That way in the beginning of March I’ll have the extra amount and then create the payment (and backdate it to February?) which will bring it back to $0.00. But I’m not 100% if your wording was exactly this.

Not quite. There’s no back dating in what I’m saying. Correct me if I’m wrong: the payment that you just paid is for March right? Like you won’t have to pay it again in March? If that’s the case, then do everything you said but don’t back date it. 1. Add the extra money to rent in Feb 2. Add the extra transaction 3. March 1st comes (if no rent is due) then leave the rent category empty 4. Do a happy dance All good?

Thank you ok. Happy dance for Adar.