When You Pay Your Credit Card in Full on Mobile
YNAB is designed to help you pay off credit card debt, but it works equally well for YNABers who pay their cards off in full regularly!
If you are a paid in full credit card user, your Credit Card Payment category Payment should always match the account balance owed. If it doesn’t, budget more to the category until it matches like the screenshot below:
Can you budget for it all?
If you aren’t able to budget for the full starting balance of your credit card and all of your current month's expenses, you might be riding the credit card float.
When you first set up your budget, you’ll see the account balance in your Account list, but the Payment amount won’t update automatically to cover that Starting Balance.
Budgeting for the Starting Balance in your Credit Card Payment category lets your budget know that you plan to take some of the money you have right now and use it to pay off the Starting Balance on the card.