Manage accounts

Create your accounts, set the opening balance everything is counted from, and check whenever iowii's figures line up with your bank's.

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   Create an account

   Press New Account, name it, and pick a type. The type decides how the account is treated in calculations, especially net worth:

   • Checking — your everyday account.
   • Savings — money set aside.
   • Cash / Wallet — notes and coins outside the bank.
   • Investment — holdings and brokerage accounts.
   • Credit — credit cards, which count as debt.
   • Other — anything that does not fit above.
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   Set the opening balance

   The opening balance is what the account held at the start of the selected date. iowii adds and subtracts transactions from that day through today to reach the current balance.

   Tip · The date matters as much as the amount. Transactions before it are left out of the calculation — deliberately, so you do not count twice what the opening balance already included.

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   Mark your main account

   The star marks your primary account, the one pre-selected when you log a transaction. You can also give the account a primary category, which is then suggested in the form.

   Tip · The primary category only applies when it matches the transaction type on screen — an income category will not appear on the expense tab.

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   Check against your bank

   Under Check against your bank, enter the balance your bank shows, including negative values. iowii shows the difference and transactions left out of the calculation; this does not confirm the cause.

   • No account — transactions not assigned to any account.
   • Before the opening balance — transactions dated before your starting point.
   • Excluded from totals — transactions you marked not to count.
   • Split transaction — the original row of an expense you divided.
   • Scheduled — these have not happened yet, so your bank does not count them either.
   • Removed by the bank — left out of the calculation.

   Tip · Earlier, scheduled, split and removed transactions are shown for information only. Before assigning transactions without an account or including excluded ones, confirm that they belong to this account and should count.

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   Check your starting date

   Importing transactions from earlier years does not change a balance recorded after them. Those transactions should already be included in that balance; their number does not indicate a date error.

   Tip · Only change the date after confirming the balance at the start of that new date. If there is a difference, also check the subsequent transactions.

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   Keep several balances over time

   Balance history lets you record more than one opening balance, each with its own date. Use it when you know the true figure at different points and want the calculation to re-anchor from each one.

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   Bank connections via Plaid

   Connect Bank imports accounts and transactions straight from your institution. Imported accounts and transactions show up in a Bank Connections section, with the bank's name, connection status, last sync date, and its linked accounts with their balances. A Disconnect bank button revokes iowii's access at the bank and permanently deletes the accounts and transactions imported by that connection — your manual accounts and transactions are never affected.

   • Connected — syncing normally.
   • Syncing — a sync is currently running.
   • Needs attention — you need to reauthorize the connection with your bank to keep syncing. A Reconnect Bank button reopens Plaid so you can confirm your credentials, without creating a new connection.
   • Failed — the last sync did not complete successfully.

   Tip · Transactions your bank has not yet posted show a Pending badge in the transaction list, until the bank confirms them. On any account in the Bank Connections list, a badge shows how many transactions it already has synced (or that it has none yet). Click the list icon to see its most recent transactions right there, or View all transactions to open the full ledger already filtered to that account.

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   Link Plaid accounts to your accounts

   After connecting a bank, imported accounts also show up in an Unlinked Bank Accounts section, under "My Accounts". iowii suggests a match when it finds one of your accounts with a similar name — just click Link. If there's no suggestion, pick an existing account from a search list or click Create new account to create one from the bank's data. One button links every account with no suggestion at once.

   • The bank's current balance is imported at the moment of linking, as if it were the account's opening balance from today onward.
   • Transaction history from before the link is not imported — only the balance from that day forward.
   • A linked account shows a Plaid label next to its name, and can be unlinked at any time without losing its balance history.
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   Clear or delete an account

   Clear transactions deletes that account's completed transactions — and both legs of any transfer — but leaves future scheduled items alone. Delete removes the account itself, behind a confirmation; the confirmation states how many manual transactions end up with no account assigned and, if the account is Plaid-linked, makes clear its synced bank history is not deleted — it stays reachable under Unlinked Bank Accounts.

   • Select — choose Select at the top of the list to mark several manual accounts and delete them all at once, with the same per-account confirmation.

   Tip · If a No Account card appears, you have manual transactions with no account assigned. You can assign them all at once from there; if there are also unlinked bank transactions, the card links straight to that section.