skarbfolioOpen app
Getting Started
  • What is Skarbfolio?
  • Adding your first account
Accounts
  • How to add an account
  • How to edit or rename an account
  • How to archive an account
  • Zero-balance vs. archived accounts
Holdings & Transactions
  • How to add a holding
  • How to add a transaction
  • How to edit or delete a transaction
  • How to archive a holding
  • Editing a custom asset
  • Setting up a dividend schedule
Importing Data
  • Importing from Interactive Brokers
  • Importing from an Excel (XLSX) file
Asset Types
  • Tracking stocks
  • Tracking government bonds
  • Tracking crypto addresses
  • Custom assets
Activity & Income
  • Understanding the Activity feed
  • How income is calculated
Analytics
  • Reading the analytics dashboard
  • How net worth and charts are calculated
Settings
  • Connecting Interactive Brokers for live sync
  • Using the MCP connector
  • Billing & subscription
  • Changing language and currency
  • Debt payment reminders
  • Changing the theme
  • Deleting your account
Help & FAQ

How to add a transaction

Transactions are the events — buy, sell, dividend, interest, transfer — that build a holding's history. Which fields you see, and what they mean, changes with the transaction type you pick.

  1. Go to Holdings and find the holding, or go to Activity.
  2. Click Add transaction.
  3. Choose the Transaction type — the options offered depend on the asset:
    • Stock / Custom: Buy, Sell, Dividend, Fee.
    • Bond: Buy, Sell, Coupon, Redemption, Fee.
    • Crypto: Buy, Sell, Deposit, Withdraw, Fee.
    • Cash: Deposit, Withdraw, Interest, Fee.
  4. Fill in the fields (see below).
  5. Save.

The transaction immediately updates the holding's quantity, average cost, and your account balances.

Fields

  • Account — which account this transaction posts to.
  • Quantity / Amount — the label and meaning change with the type: Quantity for Buy/Sell, Shares held for Dividend/Coupon (the number of shares or bonds the payout is based on, not a delta), Bonds redeemed for Redemption, or Amount for Deposit/Withdraw/Interest/Fee.
  • Price — hidden for Deposit/Withdraw/Interest/Fee (there's no per-unit price for those). Also relabels: Per share for Dividend/Coupon, Redemption price for Redemption.
  • Total value — shown alongside price, normally computed as quantity × price, but directly editable: type a lump-sum payout here and the price recalculates to match, since a dividend or coupon is usually known as a total rather than a per-share rate.
  • Balance after — only shown for Deposit/Withdraw/Interest, or Fee on a cash holding. Two-way bound to the amount: editing this field recalculates the amount automatically, and vice versa.
  • Fee — only shown for Buy/Sell.
  • Date — for a bond's Coupon type, this becomes a dropdown of the bond's scheduled coupon dates (✓ marks ones already recorded); picking a date auto-fills the per-bond amount and shares-held from the catalog.
  • Book the matching cash movement — only shown for Buy/Sell/Coupon/Dividend/Redemption/Fee on a non-cash asset. When on, also records this transaction's cash impact as a deposit or withdrawal in a cash holding in the same account. Turn it off if you're just logging the transaction without moving tracked cash.
  • Note (optional).

Tips

  • Picking Dividend or Coupon the first time pre-fills the per-share amount and shares-held from the holding's dividend schedule or the bond's coupon calendar — usually you just confirm it.
  • Picking Redemption on a catalog bond jumps the date to maturity and fills in the redemption value and bonds held.
  • You can also add a transaction directly from the Activity page using the same Add transaction button — useful when you don't want to navigate to the holding first.
  • To edit or remove a transaction after saving it, see edit or delete a transaction.