> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://recontrol.money/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Transactions

> The record of every time money moved: where it came from, where it went, how much and when.

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.](https://mintcdn.com/recontrol/sM_LewCYsSNmvpyF/images/screens/transactions-light.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=sM_LewCYsSNmvpyF\&q=85\&s=5f633bffce6db2e19bfbd0cc29d5cd0f)

## Common patterns

| What happened | From | To |
| - | - | - |
| Groceries on a debit card | Checking | Groceries |
| Salary arrives | Salary | Checking |
| Cash from the ATM (neither income nor spending) | Checking | Cash |
| Dinner on a credit card | Credit Card | Eating Out |
| Paying the card bill (not spending) | Checking | Credit Card |
| A refund | Shopping | Credit Card |

## 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.

## 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.

## 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](https://recontrol.money/docs/concepts/double-entry.md), and [Transactions](https://recontrol.money/docs/features/transactions.md) for the screen.


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