Pool Savings Accounts for Savings Goals Contributions (edited)

abresh

Currently Savings goals are assigned to individual Savings accounts, and if you use multiple savings account, and move money between them for higher interest rates, it can be difficult to keep things in balance.

Could it be set up to do one of these?
1. Assign savings goals to the "Savings" account category.
2. Select which accounts apply to a "Savings" pool (savings accounts, investment, checking, etc).
3. If doing the above, maybe even assign how much of it is applied to the savings pool. For example, we have a buffer of one month of expenses that we keep in Checking, that is technically part of our emergency fund. would be nice to say that amount applies to the savings pool and then can have a single emergency fund.

Coach Natalie

Hello @abresh,

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-Coach Natalie

MadMath

I second this, especially as someone who uses Betterment's smart transfer feature. Money goes back and forth between my checking and savings account automatically...it would be nice to be able to treat them as a single account as far as savings goals are concerned.

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hidasri

Thi will be a great feature to add. Typically long-term goals like retirement are saved across multiple investment accounts. It will be nice to have the ability to pool the savings account instead of strictly limiting to selection of only one account to set up a savings goal.

UrsulaA

I agree with this idea. Have multiple accounts contribute to savings goals.

DeloskyGA

Agreed (and upvoted) for the multiple Savings accounts linked to a single Savings Goal. Like I posted in the Investments > Retirement Goal Setting thread, many of us have multiple accounts for multiple purposes (various savings vehicles, leverage different tax breaks or brokerage fees, etc) and limiting an overarching Savings goal to just a single account doesn't work.

Mint was able to do this and I know that Monarch can already do this (as well as the multiple Investment/Brokerage accounts linked to a Retirement Goal). Please add this to the feature enhancements!

castrand

Agreed! Appreciate @Coach Natalie for fielding the question. I would love to have multiple accounts listed in my savings goals. I am saving for multiple goals but whichever savings vehicle (CDs, monthly savings from take-home) matures first will define where the bulk will go. So, having an "overall" view of savings in total would be really helpful.

RobWilk

You can contribute from multiple accounts to your individual savings goals as-is.

ajbopp

@RobWilk I believe the request is to be able to easily swap accounts to savings goals, which is slightly different. If you have you savings goal contributed from one account, then close that account and move the money to a different account, it's kind of a tedious process.

It's not something I'm likely to do myself. Seems like trying to get to a destination faster by switching lanes every time it seems like the next lane is going faster. It really isn't a significant advantage. But I wouldn't object to others having the option if they prefer

RobWilk

Thanks —- At first, I thought the issue was certain types of accounts couldn't contribute, then I thought there was talk about the lack of automatic contributions - I agree that switching the accounts you're contributing from can be tedious, though. I'm learning to stop opening and closing bank accounts - last time i did that (2021) my direct deposit got messed up so there was a delay on receiving income.

aolafsson

I second this. I have goals that are a combinations of two accounts (one a checking + savings, others savings + CD). Savings Goals, if they could auto-read more than one account are a great way to see, and set the intention, of how much money I've saved for a specific purpose. If a savings goal is limited to just one account, then I can just see the balance easily, no math required, in the Account List.

J_M_F

I recommend this as well. Huge gap right now. Obviously, savings toward a goal may be in multiple accounts. Need the ability to select multiple accounts within a single goal. And need it ASAP! :)

Allen

Need the ability to select multiple accounts within a single goal. And need it ASAP! :)

RossK

https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/16488#Comment_16488

I would like to see this implemented. I’m new to Simplifi. I’d be happy with just being able to have a savings goal for pooled accounts. I’ve got a large goal and have some money in CDs that I would like to pool in with 2 savings accounts where I try to save monthly. I could create separate goals for each account, but the 2 savings account fluctuates too much. And if I transfer into another cd, then it doesn’t look good on my original goal. So it would also be nice to edit the goal and add an account to it.

LC_california

Plus one - moved from Mint and really miss the ability to add multiple accounts to support a goal (and then part 2 being able to add multiple investment accounts to contribute to a goal — I'm really surprised that a financial planning and budgeting tool doesn't let you track retirement savings.)

eknud

please add this! Can’t use goals feature until I can link multiple bank and investment accounts to a goal.

Mantis

@Coach Natalie This is still very relevant. And honestly it seems like it would be such a simple feature to add and is supported by many competitors. Especially for categories like Retirement which easily cross multiple accounts.

This seems like the same request, if they can be merged to up the votes.
https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/comment/39430#Comment_39430?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=goals+multiple+accounts

Thanks for any consideration.

DannyB

I don't think that I'm understanding this feature request. QSimplifi currently allows the user to "pool" savings accounts into a single savings goal.

Perhaps the request is to be able to add already existing savings from multiple accounts when first setting up a savings goal?

Perhaps this is a request to have a savings goal actively and "automatically" adjust based on downloaded bank data?

I have a savings goal that includes all my retirement savings in multiple investment accounts. Not sure how useful that is since the information for total amount of that sg is already available via the accounts list, net worth reports and the investment page. But I am able to add funds from any account to a single savings goal already.

I see that this request dates back to 2020, perhaps the current ability to contribute to a savings goal was added after this request was first created?