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How to use Jarful.

Kia ora. This is the product, written so a household in Aotearoa can set itself up and then look something up later. Short answers are on the FAQ. Budgeting ideas that are not button-by-button are in the guides.

Start here

A new household, in one evening.

Create an account, import a CSV, fill your jars, then check in each week. Start here walks the in-app Get started list, using the labels on the screen.

Create an account

Email code, Google or Microsoft. There is no password. You land on Get started.

Import a CSV

Bring in a bank statement today. Live bank feeds are switching on for all households shortly.

Fill your jars

Give each budget line a weekly, fortnightly or monthly amount. Jarful converts between them.

Check in each week

Open Review, look at the scorecard, and mark the week reviewed. A partner can do the same.

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Getting started

Start here

The first evening with Jarful: name the household, import a CSV, set budgets, and know where the weekly check-in lives.

Sign in

Create an account or come back with an email code, Google, Microsoft, or a passkey. There is no password.

Import a CSV

Drop a bank CSV, or a Westpac or ANZ PDF statement, and skip rows Jarful already has.

Bank feeds

CSV import is what every household can do today. A live read-only Akahu feed is switching on shortly, and it cannot move money.

Invite your partner

Two sign-ins, the same numbers, included in the one household plan.

Invite someone as view only

A full member or the owner can invite a person who can read the household and cannot change it.

Everyday

The menu

What the sidebar and the phone bar are called, and where the nested pages live.

Dashboard

The home screen: what is left to spend, what needs a look, and the shortcuts into Christmas, yearly costs and the weekly check-in.

Transactions

The list of what came in and went out, including merchants, tags, and marking a one-off.

Budgets

Weekly, fortnightly or monthly amounts on a spreadsheet-style grid, with paste from Excel.

Own-money jars

One jar per full member, visible to both of you. A spend lands in it only when someone marks it.

Bills

The calendar of regular payments, and how to move one due date without changing the schedule.

The January bills card

A calm list of what the bills calendar already has for January. You can see it from November. It does not nag and it does not pay.

The weekly check-in

The shared look at the week: scorecard, checklist, a note, and Mark as reviewed.

Ask about a transaction, and I’ve got this

A question only the two of you see, and a way to say who is handling a bill, a task or a gift.

Quick add

The plus in the middle of the phone bar: a cash spend, a receipt, and a couple of extras when those modules are on.

Undo

Most changes confirm in a short message with Undo. Use it when the last action was the wrong one.

Plans

The Christmas plan

A gift list and a pace for the season, started from the dashboard well before Black Friday. Last year is a labelled suggestion, and only when the history is actually there.