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Add holdings and transactions to my manual account

The difference between adding a holding and adding a transaction, and how to enter a buy, a sell, a deposit or a dividend.

Written by Pierre-Luc Schaming

A transaction-based manual investment account can be filled in two ways, depending on what you know about your account.

Holding or transaction?

  • Add holding: to declare what you already hold, without re-entering the whole history. Enter the quantity and the price. If you leave the Purchase date empty, today's date is used. Finary records the holding as a buy. If you already hold this security in the account, this adds a new buy and averages your unit cost: to correct an existing holding, add a transaction instead.

  • Add transaction: to record each operation on its date, and get a history and a performance that match your statement. Six types are offered:

    • Buy and Sell: a security bought or sold;

    • Deposit and Withdrawal: money paid into or taken out of the account;

    • Fee: fees taken from the account's cash;

    • Distribution (dividend, interest): income paid by a holding you own. It is added to your cash and your performance, but doesn't appear in Passive income (Past tab). Finary doesn't create this income automatically: enter each dividend or interest payment you receive.

Where to find the buttons

  • On the web: on an account created without a balance, the Your account is ready. card offers both. After that, Add holding is in the Holdings tab, and Add transaction in the History tab.

  • On mobile: tap the + button, then choose Add holding or Add transaction.

Enter a buy or a sell

Search for the security by name, ticker or ISIN. Enter the Date and the Quantity, then the Unit price or the Total amount: fill in one, and Finary calculates the other.

  • On the web: click Done for each transaction. You can line up several, then save them all with Submit.

  • On mobile: tap Submit, or Submit and add another to keep going. Each transaction is saved straight away.

You can enter past operations, in any order. Future dates aren't accepted. Sell and Distribution stay unavailable as long as the account has no holdings.

Add a euro fund or a crowdlending holding

On the web only for now. These holdings are tracked by amount, not by number of units.

  1. In the Holdings tab, click Add holding and search for it by name.

  2. If it appears in the results, select it and enter the Total amount.

  3. Otherwise, choose Add it myself. Fill in the Name, the Category (Fonds euro or Crowdlending), the Currency, the amount invested in Buying price and the current value in Current price, then click Submit. The Purchase date is optional. A euro fund is always in euros.

For a later payment or withdrawal, record a Buy or a Sell on this holding, entering only the Total amount.

After saving

Your transaction appears in the History tab. For a few seconds, while Finary recalculates your holdings, the transaction is marked Processing in the History tab and the amounts concerned show as loading. There's no need to enter it a second time: you would create a duplicate.

These transactions belong to the account: they don't flow into your Budget, and here the History tab replaces the Transactions tab of synced accounts.

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