What this page is for
Nothing Tulindo posts to your books names an account directly. Every posting names a key instead — sales_revenue, cash_account, mpesa_clearing and the rest — and this page is where each key is pointed at one of your own accounts. Re-pointing a key changes where future postings land; it never moves anything already posted.
Everyone whose role can view accounting sees this list. Mapping or re-pointing a key needs a role that can manage accounting.
Some keys take a part after a colon, such as cash_account:USD for a second currency, or sales_revenue:drinks for one revenue category. Each of those is mapped separately from the bare key.
How to…
How to map a new key
- Press Map a key.
- Type the Key, exactly as the posting vocabulary uses it, with its part after the colon where it takes one, such as
cash_account:USD. - Choose the Account it should land in. Only an active account of the type the key expects is offered.
- Press Save mapping.
How to point a key at a different account
Open the row menu and choose Change account, pick a new Account, and press Save mapping. Entries already posted stay exactly where they are.
Choosing an account of the wrong type is refused, naming what type the key expects and what type you chose, and nothing is changed.
Worked examples
Restaurant and bar
The Acacia Grill & Bar starts taking euros from tourists. It maps cash_account:EUR to a new account 1055 · Cash — EUR till float, so euro takings never land in the shilling cash account.
Supermarket
Tumaini Supermarket's accountant wants drinks and groceries to show as separate lines on the profit and loss. It maps sales_revenue:drinks and cogs:drinks to their own accounts, leaving the bare sales_revenue and cogs keys mapped to the general accounts every other category still falls back to.