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Tracking your spending against a targeted budget can help you manage your personal finances and reach your spending and savings goals.
To set up a budget in Macquarie Online Banking:
- Select Insights from the side menu, or first click on the menu icon in the top left-hand corner to display the side menu
- Navigate to the Budget widget
- If the Budget widget has not been added, follow the steps on How to add a widget to the Insights page
- Select Add budget
- Select a category, a sub-category and add a budget amount
- Select Save budget.
To set up a budget in the Macquarie Mobile Banking app:
- Select the Insights icon in the icon bar from the bottom
- Select Let's get started or Add budget
- Select a category, a sub-category and add a budget amount
- Select Save.
Tips to manage your budget
- The budget period is from the first day to the last day of each month
- View a history of your category spending budgets by selecting a category
- In your budget history you can select a month to view the transactions made in that month.