Re:Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track fin...
by war1025 on Friday March 22, 2019 @11:37AM
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I use ledger myself, but the issue I always run into is my wife is much less likely to keep track of what she buys and let me know so I can record it. Where that gets especially tricky is when she goes someplace and leaves a tip. Resolving tips is a real pain in the butt, especially since it comes through in the checking account at the original price and is then later processed at the tip-included price. Matching those up is a real bear.
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Re:Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track fin...
by mitul_45 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:43PM
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I also had a similar issue, but then it became like a habit – every night I would check my accounts and add day's expenses (it's difficult if you have a lot of cash transactions). For the tip, wouldn't you round off to nearest full digit? You can just add that as an expense.
Re:Ask HN: As a freelancer, what's the best app to track fin...
by war1025 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @07:15PM
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I used to reconcile our purchases against our online checking account every night, but the issue with tips happened when I would do that but then a few weeks later I would go through and actually balance everything out and suddenly I'd be off by a dollar and change and have to go on a deep dive to find out where I went wrong.