Activities

Overview

Activities represent something that happens with your money. Here are a few examples of activities:

• Spend money at a restaurant
• Loan money to a friend
• Invest some money into an asset portfolio
• Debit some cash from an ATM
• Earn money from your salary
• A friend pays for you but you will refund him

Activities can be categorized, reconciliated and then be aggregated into Periods and analysed.

Properties

An activity has the following properties:

• A title which describes shortly what is the activity about.
• A description to add more information.
• A date which represents the date at which the activity occured.
• An amount which represents the exterior amount perceived of the activity. This amount can not equal the amount spent by credit card for example.
• A type between Expense, Revenue, Investment and Neutral to describe the main flow of the activity.
• A category and a subcategory to categorize the activity.

Here is an example:

Type

The type of an activity can be Expense, Revenue, Investment or Neutral. It helps you categorize and describe the basic nature of an activity. It is also quite important in the Reconciliation system, as it defines the expected amount in the transactions.

Types can not be personalized to not overhead the configuration of Banqr. To have a finer granularity, you can use categories and subcategories.

Those types are important as they define accross the app how an activity is counted. For example, you can see a summary of those types in the dashboard.

Types can be filtered quickly in the Periods by clicking on them in the side panel.

Amount

The amount of an activity is usually positive as you assign a type to an activity. A Revenue activity has a positive amount, but an Expense has also a positive amount.

There a few cases where you want to put a negative amount:

• A refund, which should not count towards Revenues but instead should reduce Expenses.
• A revenue that was an error and is taken back, which should also not count towards Expenses.
• Any other case where you want to substract the number to the activity type instead of counting it in an other one.

The amount represents what you really want to count towards its category. For example, if you paid something for someone, creating a debt he ows you, do not count this amount in the expense activity. You can learn more about this in Reconciliation.

Categories

Categories and subcategories can be personalized in the Settings to help you identify where you money goes or come from. Categories are grouped by activity type (Revenue, Expense, Investment, Neutral) and subcategories are grouped inside a category.

Categories have a dedicated page to quickly filter activities that belong to it. Click on a category on an activity to view it.

Categories and subcategories can also be filtered quickly in Periods by clicking on them in the side panel.

Basics

Create an activity

To create an activity, you can type C everywhere in the application or click on the New activity button in the Activities page.

You can then fill all the properties. Only title, date, amount and type are required to create an activity, as the other properties are optional.

Delete an activity

To delete an activity, go on the activity page and click on the three dots button in the header. Then, choose Delete to delete the activity.

Deleting an activity deletes the transactions associated but does not delete the movements that were linked to this activity.