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Bills

Know what is due before it is late.

Recurring money, handled.

Track recurring bills with their cycle and due date, get reminded before they land, and keep a payment history that counts as real spending.

The problem

Recurring bills are the payments most likely to be forgotten and least likely to be recorded. They repeat quietly, arrive at awkward intervals, and rarely make it into any record of what was actually spent.

The approach

LifeRoster tracks each bill with its frequency and due date, reminds you ahead of time, and — when you mark one paid — writes a real expense row. The payment history is that stream of linked expenses, so a paid bill is part of your spending by construction.

What it does

Key capabilities

Everything listed here is built and in use in Bills today.

  • Recurring cycles

    One-time or recurring bills with their own frequency, due dates and status tracking.

  • Payment history

    Each bill has a detail screen listing every payment made against it.

  • Due reminders

    Upcoming dues surface as reminders, and appear in the cross-module Reminders hub.

  • History protection

    A bill with payments recorded against it refuses to be deleted outright, so a year of payment history never disappears with one tap.

  • List and calendar views

    Read the month as a list or as a calendar, with urgency shown as a chip so what is closest reads without opening anything.

  • Link a bill to what it is for

    Point a bill at the meter, vehicle or family member it belongs to, so the electricity bill and the meter it came from are visibly the same thing.

  • Folders and export

    File bills into your own categories, and export a period as a formatted PDF.

In practice

A typical workflow

Step through it — each step shows where you are in the flow.

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Add the bill

A bill's payment history is your actual spending, not a separate log kept alongside it. Mark a bill paid and it counts towards the month automatically.

Pictures on this record

The bill itself, and the proof you paid it. Scan the paper copy when it arrives and photograph the receipt when you settle it, and both stay attached to the bill rather than to a folder somewhere.

How capture and scanning work
Details

What it is like to live with

The things that decide whether a module still helps after a year of real use.

On a phone

The Bills tab offers list and calendar views, with urgency shown as chips so what is due soonest reads at a glance without opening anything.

Your data

Bills and their payments stay private to your account — encrypted on your device and protected while syncing. Nothing is shared with billers or third parties.

Read the privacy detail

Good to know

  • Recurring bills and one-off spending are kept apart on purpose, because they behave differently.
  • Cycles run from one-time through daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly.
  • A bill with recorded payments cannot be deleted outright — LifeRoster protects financial history rather than quietly removing it.
  • An unpaid bill counts as a commitment in Reports, never as spending.
  • Due reminders arrive on your device whether or not you are online.

Try Bills in LifeRoster.

Open the app on web, Android or iOS. Everything works offline, and syncs when you are back online.