Ledger
Tags
How tags label transactions across categories, how to deactivate one, and how the monthly report breaks spending down by tag.
Categories say what kind of money a transaction is: Food, Housing, Salary. Tags say anything else you want to follow, across categories: a trip, a person, a project, a renovation. A dinner and a hotel on the same holiday have different categories and the same tag.
Creating tags
Open Tags and choose Create tag. A tag only has a name, which must be unique within the team. Tags are free and unlimited on every plan.
Tagging transactions
Add tags to an income, an expense or a transfer with the Tags option while recording it, or later with Edit. A transaction can carry as many tags as you like. Tags added to a transfer apply to both of its sides and to its fees.
On the Transactions page, the Tags filter under More filters lists the transactions that carry a tag.
Deactivating a tag
When a tag has served its purpose, choose Deactivate from its menu instead of leaving it in every picker. A deactivated tag:
- is no longer offered when recording or editing a transaction;
- stays on every transaction that already carries it;
- can still be used to filter the Transactions page.
Choose Activate to offer it again.
Tags in the monthly report
The Monthly page breaks each currency down By category and By tag. A transaction counts under each of its tags, so the tag rows can add up to more than the month's totals. Untagged transactions are grouped on a row of their own.
Budgets on a tag
With Pro, a tag can carry a monthly budget in each currency, set straight from the tag's form. See Budgets.