Expense caps
Optional spending limits per category (food, utilities, rent). Purchases on Expenses roll up against the cap.
Execute on Expenses tab
Not a wallet · Your money stays in your bank account
Ledger, not wallet
noflaw never holds your group's money. Funds stay in your bank account and move through UPI apps you choose. noflaw is the shared record — same numbers for treasurer and members, without maintaining a private spreadsheet.
One pool, two directions
Money IN → Add money (Received tab)
Money OUT → Add expense (Expenses tab)
Balance → Total received − total expenses
Every expense reduces the shared pool. There is no “paid from personal vs fund” toggle and no settle-up between members — the product tracks the group pool, not individual IOUs.
What “add money” means
Add money = record that money was received into the group's shared pool. Examples: a member transferred maintenance to the society account; the treasurer deposited club fees in cash; a donor sent a UPI payment to the NGO account.
What it affects
- Increases total received and remaining balance on the Fund overview
- Appears in Activity for members who can see it
- Can mark a collection due as done if you use Plan
- Counts toward a fund target if one is set
What it is not
- Not depositing into a noflaw account
- Not splitting “who owes whom” between members
- Not the same as paying an expense via UPI (that is money out)
Plan: three planning tools
When you enable budget in fund settings, admins get a Plan screen with three separate tools — not one generic budget:
Payment dues
Scheduled outflows — bills the fund must pay by a date (GST, electricity, insurance).
Execute via Add expense
Collection dues
Scheduled inflows — money expected into the fund by a date (maintenance, membership fees).
Execute via Add money
Plan vs execution
PLAN (set expectations) EXECUTE (record reality)
───────────────────────── ───────────────────────────
Expense caps ───────────► Expenses → Add expense
(category limits) (rolls up vs cap)
Payment dues ───────────► Expenses → Add expense / UPI
(bills to pay) (link to due when saving)
Collection dues ───────────► Received → Add money
(money expected in) (link to due when saving)
Expense caps are ceilings, not dated bills. Payment dues and collection dues are dated items with checklists on the Expenses and Received tabs.
What we deliberately don't do
- No per-member settle-up or “who owes whom”
- No wallet — money never passes through noflaw
- No guest members — everyone on a fund needs a noflaw account
- No pay-later / credit state on expenses — every expense is paid and reduces the pool