Money & accounts

Journal and Contra entries

Money that moves without a customer or supplier: capital brought in, a loan, furniture bought, cash deposited in the bank.

How to

  1. Accounts → Journal & Contra. Press + Journal for an entry between your account heads (capital, loans, fixed assets, other income …) and cash or bank. Press + Contra to move money between your cash and bank accounts.
  2. Check the Date and Branch at the top. Add a Reference if you have one.
  3. Each line is one Account with either a Debit or a Credit, and a Narration if you want. Press + Add line for more — the new line starts with the amount that still balances the entry.
  4. The total row shows Balanced when debits equal credits, or by how much they differ. It will not save until they are equal.
  5. Press Save Journal (or Save Contra).

Good to know

  • A customer’s or supplier’s balance is changed with a credit or debit note under Payments & Notes, not with a journal — so Outstanding and their Ledger stay right.
  • With more than one branch, a Contra line can be in another branch: cash sent from one branch to another is one Contra.
  • Example: you bring ₹5,00,000 of your own money into the bank. Debit the bank account, credit Capital Account.
  • Depreciation has no screen of its own: record it as a Journal.
  • Many at once: Download Template, fill it in and Import Excel — rows with the same Ref become one voucher.

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