## Problem
A catch-all budget ("Not budgeted") is supposed to absorb every expense
no other
budget covers. It decided that by looking at the **categories** other
budgets
track — labels were never considered. So for a user whose other budgets
track
spending **by label**, nothing was ever "claimed" and the catch-all
absorbed
everything, double counting it.
Found in production: a user with three label-only budgets (Padel, Yearly
Padel,
Miami Flight) had every labeled expense sitting in their catch-all as
well. Their
current catch-all period read **289,136 / 170,000 (170%, over budget)**
where the
right figure is **75,281 / 170,000 (44%)**. 185 assignment rows are
wrong across
2 users.
## Fix
Precedence is now decided by the budget periods that actually match the
transaction: if any budget already counts it — by category **or** by
label, in a
period covering its date — the catch-all stays out. The historical
backfill
mirrors that rule in SQL, and only treats a category or label as claimed
when the
claiming budget has a period overlapping the range being backfilled.
That last part matters: keying purely on "some budget tracks this label"
would
have dropped expenses whose label budget has no period covering their
date,
leaving them in **no** budget at all (23 rows of one production user,
~2,204 of
spend that would have silently disappeared from their budget view). Both
review
passes flagged it; there are now tests for it on both paths.
## Repairing existing data
```bash
php artisan budgets:reassign-labeled --user=<email> --dry-run
php artisan budgets:reassign-labeled --user=<email>
```
It re-derives every budget assignment of the labeled transactions
currently
sitting in a catch-all budget, with notifications suppressed — these are
historical rows, so a limit email would announce a threshold crossed
weeks ago.
Reassignment (rather than deleting the bad rows) is deliberate: 44 of
the
affected transactions are not in their label budget either, so a plain
delete
would have left them nowhere.
## Known follow-ups (not in this PR)
- **The stale state can reappear.** Catch-all membership now depends on
labels,
but three paths mutate labels without firing `TransactionUpdated`, so
nothing
reassigns: `AutomationRuleService::applyActions` (`saveQuietly` +
`syncWithoutDetaching`), its bulk `applyRuleActionsToTransactions`
(`LabelTransaction::insertOrIgnore`), and the `LabelTransaction` MCP
tool. This
is what left the 44 Miami rows out of their budget — the label was
attached ~10
minutes after the transaction's last save. The web paths are fine.
- Creating a label budget next to an existing catch-all does not release
the
catch-all's rows, and deleting one does not hand them back.
- The repaired catch-all periods keep their `over_limit_notified` flag
until the
next expense lands in them (the flag reset lives in the notification
path we
skip). Self-heals on the next assignment.
## Testing
`tests/Feature/CatchAllBudgetTest.php` — 11 tests: label claimed by
another
budget, label no budget tracks (with a *different* label claimed, so
"any claim"
is not enough), claiming budget with no covering period on both the
per-transaction and historical paths, and the repair command end to end
including `Mail::assertNothingSent()`.
## Summary
Adds **catch-all budgets** — a budget flagged `is_catch_all` absorbs
every expense-category transaction not already claimed by another
(non-catch-all) budget, so out-of-budget spending is still tracked.
## Changes
- Migration: `is_catch_all` boolean (default false) on `budgets`.
- `Budget` model: fillable + boolean cast.
- `BudgetTransactionService`: a catch-all budget matches expense
transactions whose `category_id` is not claimed by any non-catch-all
budget; period assignment mirrors the same rule.
- `BudgetController`: supports the flag.
## Notes
- Pre-existing WIP committed as-is; CI is the validation gate.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Víctor Falcón <victoor89@gmail.com>
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