How Cash Accounts, Entries, and Receipts Relate

Audience: front-end end users

How they connect

Cash Accounts
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        │ Balance is driven by entries
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Account Entries ◄── Transfers / receipts & payments / shareholder funds / adjustments
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Receipts & Payments ──► link to Income & Expenses records
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Income & Expenses ── the business record itself (register the business first, then receive or pay)

Roles

Object	Role
Cash accounts	Where the money sits (bank, cash, Stripe account type, and similar)
Income and expenses	What happened (income / expense records; may have an open amount)
Receipts and payments	How money moves in or out (linked to a record; can go through a company account / shareholder / employee)
Transfers	Move money between accounts; usually creates in / out entries
Account entries	Ledger lines; delete is usually void, not a simple erase

Suggested order

Create cash accounts first.
Register income and expense records.
Use receipts and payments to settle or apply records (when a company account must move).
Check balance changes in account entries. Use transfers to move money between accounts.

Company assets and shareholders have their own registers and can link to records / entries. See the matching feature guides.