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A transaction records an amount, a day, a note, and both sides: From and To. Recontrol records money; it never moves it. Household's transactions on the web: each row's day, note, From, To and amount; two have their To left blank. Household's transactions on the web: each row's day, note, From, To and amount; two have their To left blank.

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Common patterns

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How an amount reads

A row reads its note, or what the money was for, over where it moved: Groceries over From Checking, Salary over To Checking. From, To and the arrow say which way it went. In a list, an amount has no + or −: each one leaves one side and arrives at the other. Its colour says what it did to what you have: green when you have more, red when you have less, plain for a move between your own accounts or one with a side left blank. On an account’s own page, an amount is signed by what it did to that account: + where its figure grew, − where it shrank. Green means the way you’d want it: on a credit card, a payment (−) is green and a charge (+) red.

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The day it happened

A transaction’s day is when the money moved, not when you recorded it. Record last week’s purchase with last week’s date and the history corrects itself.

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Corrections

An account’s opening balance, and Update Balance, are recorded as adjustments: neither income nor spending. Editing a transaction changes every balance it touched, as if it had always been so; deleting reverses it everywhere. See Why From and To, and Transactions for the screen.