@jackie

Did you add your credit card account balance as a positive or negative number? Remember, your credit card “balance” is actually money you’ve spent and needs to accounted for in your budget somewhere.

Yeah, what he said. Credit cards will have a clearer workflow in the future, but right now accounts are simple and the number you enter becomes positive cash that you have. So when you enter a credit card, you need to add it negative (think of it this way: expenses will substract from the balance, so for credit card you wouldn't want the number to be going down)

Ahhh, I see, I just assumed that it would read the credit card balance as a negative number because you can never really have a "positive" credit card balance. That makes sense, thank you! Might be useful to add some affordance to that UI.

absolutely, just haven't done that yet! please let me know if anything else is confusing or how I could make it better!

As a matter of fact you can have a positive balance. We had a big refund from an airline last month after we had paid off our balance. So I entered that as a an amount in the "Deposit" column. I've actually had an easier time thinking about the UI when I mentally rename the Payment column to "Debit" and Deposit to "Credit"

Just talked about this with some other people, and that's true. I hadn't thought about that.

We'll figure out a better credit card workflow soon

A handy application. I always want to know what is going with my finances, what I spend, and how much I earn. I wish there were more apps like this. Money likes to be counted, especially when there is a lot of it. I advise all my friends to manage their finances so they know exactly how much they can and cannot spend. There should always be a reserve of funds for emergencies. For example, your mother has fallen ill, and you urgently need to have an expensive operation. If you don't have liquid money, you may have to sell your car or other things. You can avoid this. All you have to do is manage your finances wisely. More information about liquid money here https://thecentsofmoney.com/why-liquid-net-worth-matters/