Can I afford this? Ask your dashboard
Type an amount under your safe-to-spend number and get an honest answer straight away, from your own bills, budgets and payday. The amount never leaves your device.
You're standing in the shop with a jacket in your hand, wondering whether it fits this pay. Now you can ask KeaBudget.
Type it, tap Check. Under your Safe to spend number on the dashboard, type the amount into Can I afford… and tap Check. The answer comes from the same numbers as the card: your balance, the bills still to come before payday, what's left in your budgets and what your lumpy bills need.
Four honest answers.
- Yes: what you'd still have to spend until payday, and the new daily amount.
- It fits, but it's tight: the daily amount would drop below half, or your balance would dip below $0 before payday once your usual spending is counted.
- Not from safe to spend: it would use money already set aside, and KeaBudget names the next bill it would eat into.
- More than you have: it's more than your balance.
Buying it anyway? When it fits, Buying it? Add it opens Add transaction with the amount already filled in.
It stays on your device. The check is worked out in your browser from the numbers already on the card. The amount isn't saved, sent to KeaBudget or tracked.
More in What your safe-to-spend number means.