Documentation

How to keep your household ledger in Asienta — from the first account to reports.

Getting started

  • What is AsientaA web app for personal and household finance — multi-currency records, charts and reports you can trace to single entries.
  • First steps: the five-step setupCreate an account, wait for admission, then set up your base currency, first account, categories and first entry.
  • Base currencyThe currency your net worth, charts and reports are shown in — and what happens when you change it.

Recording

  • Expenses and incomeRecord a purchase or an income in a few keystrokes with the entry panel.
  • Transfers and feesMove money between your own accounts without it counting as spending — with the bank fee recorded separately.
  • Currency exchangeRecord money changing currency — on one account or between two — with the rate you actually got.
  • Your own exchange rateUse the rate you actually paid instead of the reference rate — and how reference rates work.
  • The Entries journalFind any entry by period, kind, account, category or search — and see the total of what you’re looking at.
  • Editing, voiding and undoFix a mistake without losing history — edits keep the previous version, and voided entries can be restored.

Registers

  • AccountsCards, cash, bank accounts and property — with several currencies each, opening balances, logos, order and archive.
  • CurrenciesAdd currencies from the list with automatic rates, or your own with a rate you set.
  • Categories and income sourcesBuild your own tree of expense categories and income sources, and keep some of them out of reports.

Reports

  • The overviewNet worth, cash flow, spending by category and runway at a glance — and how to arrange the widgets.
  • ReportsFor a period, category trends and categories × months — with options you can bookmark and CSV export.

Household

  • Members and rolesShare a household with your family — invite members and viewers, and switch between households.
  • Importing your historyBring accounts, categories and every entry from another app into an empty household — checked against the file.

About

  • Security and privacyHow Asienta keeps your financial data private — including from its own administrators.