We recommend following along with our Foundations Guide. Think of this self-paced resource as the Tiller "user manual" on how to get started, set up, and succeed with Tiller.

No, you can use the same account, even if you signed up for Tiller using a Microsoft account, to try the Google Sheets version of Tiller. Just make sure you pay attention to which Google account you use to get started with your Foundation Template for Google Sheets.

When you first install the Tiller Money Feeds add-on for Google Sheets you'll be prompted to sign in to Tiller and you can sign in with Microsoft here too.

We use a Google Sheets add-on called Tiller Money Feeds to feed financial data into your Google Sheets. The add-on is pre-installed into the Tiller Foundation template, which you can access by clicking the "Start with Google Sheets" button on the Tiller Console under "Create a spreadsheet".

You will connect the template, your own Google Sheets template, or even a blank Google Sheet to the financial feeds using the add-on. Just install and sign in to the add-on with your Tiller-subscribed gmail account and easily link a sheet and start feeding your data, all right in the Google Sheet.

To keep the data flowing into your Google Sheet after the first setup, launch the add-on from the Extensions menu at the top of your Google Sheet and then click "Fill Available Updates" in the sidebar.

Read more about how refreshes work.

To keep the data flowing into your Google Sheet after the first setup, launch the add-on from the Extensions menu at the top of your Google Sheet and then click "Fill Available Updates" in the sidebar.

By default, Auto Fill is enabled on Google Sheets for daily scheduled automatic filling of available transactions and balances into your Google Sheet about every 6 hours. You can disable the Auto Fill feature by modifying your settings. Read more here.

Some accounts may require your attention in order to refresh due to the security settings or bank's requirements. Click the "[N] Feeds need refreshing" message near the top. Clicking this link will launch the Tiller Console where you can refresh accounts that need your attention and then click "Fill Available Updates" again.

Read more about how refreshes work.

Tiller offers one official template for Google Sheets, the Foundation Template that includes yearly and monthly budget views, cash flow analysis, and quick insights about net worth and spending trends.

You can also find templates and solutions to various financial workflows (net worth, zero sum budgeting, debt snowball, and more) in the Tiller Community Solutions add-on.

You can connect the Tiller Money Feeds add-on to your own template or a blank Google Sheet as well. When using your own template you will most likely need to make modifications to support Tiller's data feeds. Read more here.

There is a 5 sheet linking limit for spreadsheets linked to the Console (Google Sheets and Excel combined). This still applies to sheets already linked to the Console using the Tiller Money Feeds add-on.

Any sheets you unlink will still exist in your Google Drive, but cannot be updated by Tiller Money Feeds. You can delete these sheets if you’d like or save them as a backup or archive of your data. You can re-link a sheet that was previously linked.

You can manually track balances for non-automated accounts using the Tiller Money Feeds add-on under Manage Manual Accounts. Use these steps.

Nope. You are able to feed your bank data into Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel workbooks using the same account. See our Getting Started with Tiller for Microsoft Excel guide here.

When you initially connect your accounts, we can usually pull up to 90 days of data into your sheets, but this varies by institution and account. If you want to add more historical data to your sheet, you can manually import historical data. If it seems like you’re missing recent transactions, review this guide and reach out to our support team - we’re happy to help. If you're not seeing any data for a newly connected account you probably just need to link the account to the spreadsheet.

We don't own nor store any of your spreadsheets in our database. Your sheets are owned 100% by you so Tiller will not be able to recover a deleted spreadsheet.

Here's the guide from Google to help you find and restore a file.

Review our Getting Started with Tiller for Google Sheets guide here, which includes steps for making a copy of the Foundation Template and getting the data flowing into it.

Use our Foundations Guide for how to use the template and set it up for budgeting and tracking.

You can install and run AutoCat using the Tiller Money Feeds add-on by clicking AutoCat in the sidebar after you launch the add-on from near the bottom of the Extensions menu.

​Learn more about AutoCat.

The Foundation template has the following sheets by default. Any other tabs in your Google Sheet likely came from the Tiller Community Solutions add-on and are supported by our team in the Tiller Community.

Budget amounts are set on the Categories sheet in the respective month column. You may need to expand the budget month columns if you don't see them by default:

The Tiller Foundation template supports multi-year budgeting (by adding more month columns to the Categories sheet - steps linked below), but you can only visualize a 12 month period on the Yearly Budget sheet. Additionally, ensure that your Transactions sheet is populated in order to have the Yearly Budget sheet figures generated.

Review the steps for setting up your Foundation Template to support multi-year budgeting.

The Tiller Foundation Template does not support envelope or zero-sum budgeting. If you prefer that budgeting method we recommend testing out the Savings Budget from the Tiller Community.

Read more and get support on the Tiller Community

The Accounts sheet, where you can configure groups to organize your accounts or set a class override if it’s being pulled in with the wrong class is hidden by default. Simply unhide the sheet by opening the view menu at the top of the Google Sheet and choosing “Hidden Sheets” to select Accounts.

You can add the Debt Payoff Planner now through the templates feature in the Tiller Money Feeds sidebar as part of Tiller's core product.
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Solutions for net worth tracking, and much more can be accessed using the Tiller Community Solutions add-on.

Learn more and get support for the Tiller Community Solutions add-on in the Tiller Community

The Foundation template is built specifically for United States date format (mm/dd/yyyy) and United States spreadsheet locale settings. If you change the spreadsheet settings to use a different location or date formats in the template your other dashboards may not calculate amounts in the correct periods.

Google Sheets templates featured on the Tiller website aside from the Foundation Template are usually available via the Tiller Community Solutions add-on and are supported by the Tiller Community.

If you want to start fresh or create another Foundation Template, you can do this from the Tiller Console under "Create a spreadsheet" and choose "Start with Google Sheets" or "Start with Microsoft Excel" to open or download the Foundation Template on your preferred platform.