Trip wallet
Every itinerary item carries a planned cost from day one. The wallet tracks what you actually spend against it, live, while the trip is still fixable.
What it does
- The plan is born budgeted: each item carries a planned cost, so the trip has a number before you book anything.
- On the road, log what you really paid and the wallet shows planned versus actual, live - per day and for the whole trip.
- The gap is visible while it is still actionable: overspend on day three and you can choose a cheaper day five, not discover the damage at home.
- Costs stay attached to itinerary items, so "where did the money go" has an answer with a time and a place.
Why it matters
Most trip budgets die the moment the trip starts, because the spreadsheet is at home and nobody logs anything into it from a bar in Lisbon. Keeping planned and actual in the same place as the plan itself is what makes a budget a live instrument instead of a post-mortem.
The honest boundary
The wallet tracks money; it does not touch it. 7 Wanders is not connected to your bank, does not import card transactions, and does not process payments - you log spends yourself, which is exactly why the numbers are ones you trust. It also will not judge the third pastry. That is between you and the pastry.
Give the next trip a budget that survives day one.