YNAB You Need A Budget

[Patzer]

The budget page in the current YNAB Pro beta version (2.6.9.0) uses the terms Budgeted, Ouflows, and Remaining where previous versions used the terms Budgeted, Spent, and Balance. This is not a big deal to me personally, as the columns are in the same place that they were and the numbers mean the same thing that they did before. I presume the change was made because it was felt that the new terms would be easier for a new user to understand.

However, we have a lot of historical forum discussion (and wiki/tutorial/program documentation?) that talks about the Spent and Balance columns. We probably ought to be thinking about how the transition of support information to the new terms will work, and perhaps how to support both sets of terms for however long we can expect to have users on both the older and newer versions of YNAB Pro.

Is there a similar terminology transition for YNAB Excel?

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[jesse]

The Excel version will change as well. I think it's just a matter of going through the documentation and changing it when we run into it. I don't think running it in parallel is too important, since we'll be releasing this version fairly quickly, and most veteran users will understand the change from the get-go.

We went with "remaining" instead of balance b/c we found people confusing that Monthly total balance with their bank balance.

[Patzer]

We went with "remaining" instead of balance b/c we found people confusing that Monthly total balance with their bank balance.

Yeah, and I've seen a lot of relatively new people talk about "Available Balance" as well. The name change was a good idea.

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