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# Cash

A cash account is similar to a bank account, but is not updated or imported automatically. A cash account is often used to keep track of cash or PIN transactions, but can also be used, for example, to book the transactions of a credit card manually.

A cash account is linked to a general ledger account on which the balance is tracked and which contains cash transactions. The general ledger account is mandatory.

You can create a cash account via the dashboard **Configuration**, under the heading **Financial** -> **Cash accounts**.

### Cash entries

Within a cash account you create **cash entries**. A cash entry can contain a single transaction, but it can also contain, for example, all transactions from a week or month. You create a cash entry on the dashboard **Financial**, via the button **New cash entry.**

For a cash entry, just like with the bank, you choose a general ledger account or an invoice. If you choose an invoice, a payment is automatically registered on it.

### Posting to the journal

For a bank transaction, a journal entry is created per transaction. For cash transactions, this works slightly differently: they are grouped per day into a single journal entry. For example, if you have a cash entry with 10 transactions, 5 on day 1 and 5 on day 2, the system creates 2 journal entries. These journal entries are linked and can therefore be viewed in the details of the cash entry.


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