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Cash Flow

The Cash Flow tab is a month-by-month tracker of income minus expenses. Add entries by hand or let it build itself from your bank activity — and once a bank is connected, your transactions also power Trip spending on your trips.

The Cash Flow tab with income and expenses columns and the net summary

Income and expenses

Add entries with a name, amount, and category, and choose how often they repeat: monthly, one-time, or — for income — every 2 weeks or weekly. Insights highlight your largest recurring income and expense, and how this month compares to last.

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Cash flow can also build itself from your bank activity. If you haven't linked a bank yet, the tab offers Connect a bank; once one is connected, Sync transactions pulls your recent income and spending in, categorized automatically. (Linking a bank is covered in Accounts & connections.)

Income that isn't monthly

Paid every two weeks or weekly? Pick that cadence and enter the amount per paycheck, then set your most recent payday. OrientME counts the actual paydays that land in each month — so the two months a year with a third biweekly paycheck show up correctly instead of being averaged away. A small "≈ $/mo" estimate shows alongside for budgeting.

Paid twice a month?

A "twice a month" schedule (like the 1st and 15th) is exactly two paychecks every month, so just keep it as monthly and enter your monthly total.

When income stops

When a job or gig ends, edit the income and set an end date rather than deleting it. The income stops counting after that date, but every earlier month stays exactly as it was. Deleting a source is for entries added by mistake — it removes them from every month, including past ones.

See what you spent on a trip

Once you've connected a bank, your transactions also power Trip spending on your trips. Open any trip with start and end dates and OrientME automatically matches every bank transaction that happened during those dates — totalled, broken down by category, and listed so you can review them. Transfers and card payments are left out automatically, and you can untick anything that wasn't really trip spend to keep the total honest. Nothing to set up: connect a bank in Finance, give the trip dates, and the spending appears. See Trips for the full walkthrough.

A trip's Trip spending panel — total, category bars, and the transaction list with checkboxes