Your own exchange rate

Reference rates

For every currency picked from the list, Asienta loads a reference rate automatically every day. The latest loaded rate is the one offered in the entry panel.

Reference rates come from central banks and are published once a day, so they can differ from a live quote by that day’s movement. That is why the rate you actually got always wins.

Set your own rate

When an expense or income is in a currency other than your base currency, the panel shows the reference rate under the amount — for example Reference rate: 1 EUR = 1.0890 USD when your base currency is the euro.

1. Click Own rate.
2. Type the rate you got, in the same direction — how many units of the entry’s currency one unit of your base currency bought, such as 1.0850.
3. Record the entry as usual.

Your rate is stored with the entry exactly as typed. Use reference switches back.

For an exchange you don’t type a rate at all: it follows from the amounts given and received.

When there is no reference rate

If no reference rate exists for the entry date — for example, a currency you added yourself, or a date before you added the currency — the panel asks for your own rate. That rate is required: an entry can’t be expressed in the base currency without one.

Rates are fixed on the entry date

An entry keeps the rate of its date. Changing a currency’s reference rate later, in Currencies, applies from today and doesn’t rewrite the past.