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How Categories work in the mobile app

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How are transactions categorised?

Your transactions are grouped into 3 categories:

  • Income – the money going into your account
  • Spending– the money going out of your account
  • Transfers and Other Transactions – money transferred between your accounts and any transactions that were not automatically categorised, or you have excluded from Categories 

 

Within these 3 categories, your transactions have been automatically grouped into sub-categories such as turnover or other income, staff costs, utilities and many more. 

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Income

Your income has been split into 2 sub-categories to give you more insight into where your money is coming from.

Turnover –  the income generated solely through sales from your business

Other income –  any other payments flowing into your account that isn't turnover. Examples of these include grants, loans, refunds or interest payments. 

Spending

Spending can range from the essentials, like rent or insurance, to the cost of stock and supplies, to one-off purchases like a piece of machinery or a laptop.

We have automatically categorised these into 17 helpful sub-categories to help you track and manage your spending.
 

Capital & equipment: purchase or hire of necessary items to carry out your business, e.g. property, vehicles and machinery and tools 

Finance payments: fees for banking, such as interest charges, credit cards or loan repayments

Insurance: business related insurance 

Marketing & promotion: costs associated with promoting your goods and services

Motor expenses: vehicle purchase, fuel and EV charging 

Office & equipment: everything needed to run your office day to day, including IT costs, phone bills, uniform, etc

Professional fees: legal, security, logistics, accountancy or any other professional fees 

Refunds: refunds you've needed to pay your customers 

Rent & rates: rent and council tax 

Repairs & maintenance: vehicle and other repairs such as machinery 

Staff costs: all things related to your staff, such as pensions, salaries and PAYE

Subscriptions: regular payments made, such as for accountancy 

Supplier & stock: goods you've bought to sell, contractors or freelancers 

Tax: tax paid as part of the business

Travel expenses: flights, rail, taxis, accommodation and meals 

Utilities: gas, electricity & water bills

Other: any other transactions such as entertainment, cash withdrawals or charitable donations


Don’t forget you can re-categorise your transactions at any time. We will learn from your re-categorisation and any future payments to the same payee will be automatically categorised in the same way.

Transfers and Exclusions

Transfers between your accounts are automatically excluded from your summary. You can also manually exclude transactions such as large one-off payments, so your monthly highlights are as accurate as possible.

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