Sometimes your business activity may be happening outside of your bank or credit card accounts; cash income and expenses are one example of that. Ambrook allows you to manually track the balance of your “Cash on Hand.”

Before you start entering cash transactions, you will first create a Cash account on your balance sheet. To do this, navigate to your Balances from settings, and select "New Manual Account". Choose "Cash" to create a cash account and set your starting balance from your last balance sheet - you can call this account "Cash on Hand" or any other name that is intuitive to you.

If you navigate to your Balances page, you will see that your Cash on Hand account now reflects that beginning balance.

Once your beginning balance is set, enter Cash transactions as they occur. To create a new transaction, click the “+ New” button at the top of your Ledger and then select “New cash transaction.”

A “New Cash Transaction” panel will open up. Here, set the Description such that you’ll be able to identify the income or expense later on. Be sure to adjust the “Type” dropdown to reflect whether it is income or expense and change the date as necessary.

Once added, the transactions will appear in chronological order on your Ledger like any others. They can be tagged, broken into line items, and have receipts attached.

If you ever need to delete a cash transaction, simply click on it from the Ledger and scroll down to the bottom of the panel to find the “Delete Transaction” button.

Don’t worry about accidentally clicking that “Delete Transaction” button. After you click it once, we ask you to confirm your decision.