A few real-life situations break a normal monthly budget for a week or two: a vacation, a stay-cation, a parental leave. Vacation mode lets you pause a category for a date range so it stops affecting your remaining-balance math without losing the underlying transactions.
Turn it on
- Open the category you want to pause.
- Toggle Vacation mode on.
- Set a start and end date.
- Save.
While vacation mode is active for that category:
- The category is hidden from the Dashboard's totals (no longer counted toward planned income / expense / savings).
- A small Vacation banner appears on the Dashboard so you remember it's on.
- You can still log transactions to the category — they're recorded but don't move the dashboard math.
Auto-disable
When the end date passes, vacation mode turns itself off automatically and the category rejoins the dashboard. Transactions you logged during the window remain, and you can decide what to do with them — often, including them in the next month's plan as a one-off works well.
A common pattern
A simple way to use it during travel: pause Groceries and add a one-off Travel category for the trip. When you get back, vacation mode clears, Groceries comes back, and Travel sits in the archive as a record of the trip's actual cost.
What vacation mode is not
- It's not a way to delete a category temporarily — the category and its history are intact.
- It's not the same as setting active months — vacation mode is date-bounded; active months are calendar-month-based.
- It doesn't pause recurring categories at the global level; it pauses one category at a time.