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Basic Concepts

Number input

Broque uses your selected language or system settings for number input. Your language may use something else than . for decimal separator. An option will be provided in a future update to always use ‘.’ decimal separator.

Categories

Categories are used for general grouping of transactions. Anything that goes together. e.g. Groceries cover most of your grocery shopping, while Clothes & Shoes cover the clothing/shoes aspect.

You can add more categories and remove existing ones. It’s up to you if you want Clothes & Shoes as separate Clothes and Shoes categories. Categories are distinct, but should not be too specific.

Common actions

This sections describes common actions you would do with Broque, aside from entering expenses and income.

Currency conversion

If you exchange your money from one currency to another, you can do a currency conversion using the ... Other button in category picker and choosing Currency conversion.

When entering the currency conversion transaction, your first amount will be in the currency you’re converting from, and the final amount will be in the currency you’re converting to.

Debts

Broque can help you track your debts (you owe) and loans (you're owed).

In general, the app calls debts those finances you owe, while loans are the finances you loaned to someone. While you can have a personal loan as a debt, the app makes a distinction with a you owe and you're owed texts where applicable to make clear what is what.

Transactions

When entering a new transaction, use the debt button from the more options row on the bottom of the transaction editor. Then find the wanted debt/loan and pick it to associate that transaction with the debt/loan.

Goals

Broque can help you track your goals. Whether they’re financial or otherwise.

Start

Start off with defining a new goal in the Goals page available from the main drawer menu.

• Give the goal a name, and you can also define its icon and color by tapping the icon next to the name input.
• Start date is set to the day you’re defining the goal, but you can move it into the past if you want an earlier start date for this goals. Keep in mind the daily average is calculated from the start of the goal.
• Target date is optional and gives your goal a deadline, or a due date, or a time limit. This is used to determine if you’ll be able to reach the goal by the given target date based on daily average of your contributions towards this goal.
• Progress to date goal will make a goal type that does not deal with amounts, it just shows progress towards a target date. You can use this to track time towards a date. This type of goal must have a start and end date.
• Start amount The amount you have already set aside for this goal.
• Target amount The amount you intend to save up with this goal. If you leave this 0 or empty, the goal has no fixed amount set and is open ended. Your savings and daily average will be shown, but progress cannot be determined.

Goal contributions

To contribute towards a goal, you can add a Goal contribution transaction by using the ... Other button in category picker and choosing Goal contribution.

Help

Topics

• Basic Concepts
• Transactions
• Common actions
• Goals
• Debts

Note

This is not an exhaustive cover of all functionality, and will be updated with time.

This help is also available within the app.

Settings

This is not an expansive description of all settings and options.

Force decimal input

This will force number format for input where . is the decimal separator, and , is the thousand separator, regardless of the device or language settings.

Settings

This is not an expansive description of all settings and options.

Currencies

• You can add your own currencies, and edit built-in ones.
• You can change your primary currency.
  • All existing transactions will remain in the currency you used before. This only affects future transactions and default view used in the app.
  • Please do make a backup before doing this.

Transactions

Transactions will constitute most of your activity with Broque. They help you to track your expenses, income, liabilities and more.

Start

To add a transaction use the primary + button on the bottom navigation bar. This button is context sensitive, so it’ll assume you want to add transactions only when you’re on the overview, transaction or settings pages.

This will open the transaction editor and allow you to form a new transaction. Tapping on a transaction in the transaction list will allow you to edit any transactions edited before.