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Working with Accounts

Accounts are the starting point of working with Debtinator. You've gotta put your money somewhere, and Debtinator needs to know about it. Even if you're just stuffing it under your mattress and paying cash for everything, this is how you let Debtinator know about it. Usually these are going to be accounts you have at your bank, but that's not a requirement.

So any pool of money that is going to factor into your debt repayment strategy should go in here. And keep in mind that that includes money you can't use for debt repayment! For example, you may have a 401(k) that's being funded out of your Checking account. If you add it in here, you can have Debtinator keep track of the money moving in there for you, without you needing to worry about maintaining it yourself.

Accounts are very easy to work with, there are only a couple of fields to fill in.

Account screen

To work with accounts:

  1. Click on the accounts pane in the toolbar.
  2. Click the '+' in the lower left to add a new account, or the '-' to delete the selected account.
  3. Fill in the account's information.

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