Ledger & Categories
Journal entries, money in and out, and your chart of accounts.
Ledger
Ledger:
Navigate the Ledger
The Ledger shows every category's register for the period you pick, built from your categorized bank and card activity plus the entries you add yourself.
Ledger:
Record a journal entry
Use a journal entry for adjustments that don't move money through a bank, such as accruals, prepaid expenses, depreciation or corrections between categories.
Ledger:
Record money in, money out and transfers
Use Pay In, Pay Out and Transfer to record money that moved through a bank or card account before its statement arrives, such as a cash deposit or a check you wrote.
Ledger:
Import journal entries
Bring in up to 100 balanced journal entries at once from a CSV or Excel file. ZeraBooks checks the whole file first, and if any entry fails, none are posted.
Ledger:
Edit or remove a manual transaction
Change or remove a journal entry, Pay In, Pay Out or transfer you recorded yourself. Removing one can be undone; a statement-matched entry must be unmatched first.
Categories
Categories:
Understand the Category Manager
The Category Manager is your chart of accounts: every category your transactions post to, grouped into eight types and numbered so reports stay in order.
Categories:
Set up your chart of accounts
Start your categories one of three ways: let AI draft a chart for your business, import the one you already have, or build it yourself one category at a time.
Categories:
Generate categories with AI
Describe what your business does and ZeraBooks drafts a complete, numbered chart of accounts for it. You review and edit every category before anything is saved.
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