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Recording manual payments

Add a manual transaction and choose whether it should update your account balance.

Recording manual payments

Manual transactions let you record payments that aren’t synced from your bank — cash purchases, transfers between people, or anything you want tracked alongside your synced data.


How to add a manual transaction

  1. Go to the Transactions page.

  2. Click Add manual transaction.

  3. Pick the account, type (income or expense), amount, date, and category.

  4. Optionally add a description and reference.

  5. Click Save — the primary action is highlighted to make it easy to confirm.


Update account balance toggle

When adding a transaction to a manual account, you’ll see an Update account balance toggle. It’s on by default, with the help text “Apply this transaction to the account’s running balance.”

  • Toggle ON — the transaction amount is added to (income) or subtracted from (expense) the account balance. A read-only preview shows the projected balance after the transaction.

  • Toggle OFF — a New balance field appears so you can set the account balance manually instead. Use this when the transaction is informational only and shouldn’t change the running total (for example, a reimbursement you’ll handle separately).

Synced bank accounts don’t show this toggle — their balance always comes from the bank.


Related

  • Editing and categorizing transactions — same toggle is available when you edit or delete.

  • Tracking recurring payments — for payments that repeat on a schedule.

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