Events

What an event is

An event in SavingStat is a named occasion that spending belongs to: a trip, a wedding, a renovation, a house move. It has a name, an emoji and a description, and any expense can be filed against it alongside its ordinary category.

The start date is not something you type in. An event reports the date of the earliest expense recorded against it, so a new one has no date at all until the first cost lands in it. That is usually the flights or the deposit, months before the occasion itself.

One page disagrees. The event's Statistics tab works the start date out from the earliest expense or the earliest income, whichever came first, while the event itself only ever looks at expenses. So an event that took money in before it spent any starts earlier on that tab than it does everywhere else.

How an event differs from a budget

Events and budgets are both named containers with an owner and members, and both gather spending that would otherwise scatter across your ordinary categories. The difference is shape. A budget is ongoing. An event ends.

The totals show it. A budget reports the current month and starts again with the next one, which is what you want from something like Household. An event totals everything ever filed against it, from the flights booked in March to the taxi home: one figure for the whole occasion, however long it took to accumulate.

Who is in an event

Everyone in an event is either its owner or a member. An invitation stays pending until the person accepts it, exactly as with a budget.

Ownership can be handed over. The person taking it on has to be in the event already, and when the transfer goes through the previous owner stays on as an ordinary member, which suits a trip that one person set up and another is settling up.

What archiving does

Archiving is how an event closes. It moves out of your active list, and nothing it recorded is touched: the expenses stay where they are, still attached, still counted in its total if you go and look.

Archiving is also personal. What gets archived is your own participation, not the event itself, so putting a finished trip out of your way leaves everyone else's list alone. Deleting is the other option. It is deliberately hard to reach. An event with more than one person in it cannot be deleted at all, and deleting one that can be leaves every expense in place, simply no longer attached to anything.