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How cash tracking works
How FolioSync updates portfolio cash for deposits, withdrawals, buys, sells, broker fees, and dividends.
Common symptoms
- You are not sure why cash changed after a transaction.
- A dividend did not increase cash.
- A portfolio behaves differently after cash tracking is turned off.
What to try first
- 1Cash tracking is a portfolio-level setting. If it is off, stock transactions do not enforce or update a cash balance.
- 2Cash deposits increase cash. Cash withdrawals decrease cash.
- 3Buy transactions decrease cash by quantity multiplied by price plus broker charges.
- 4Sell transactions increase cash by sale value minus broker charges.
- 5Broker fee entries decrease cash when cash tracking is enabled.
- 6Stock dividend transactions are tracked separately and do not increase cash balance by default.
When opening a ticket
- Send the portfolio name, whether cash tracking is enabled, the affected transactions, and the expected cash balance.
- Attach an Excel export if multiple transactions are involved.