HomeBank User manual

# Introduction

«HomeBank» is free software. It's an easy personal finance software that will help you managing your personal accounting. It is designed to easy to use and be able to analyze your personal finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.

### How HomeBank can help me doing my accounts ?

The first reason is that I want HomeBank to be simple and intuitive:
=> You do not need to be an expert accountant to know how to use it !

Also here is some of his strengths:

- Easy import of OFX, QFX, QIF files with duplicate detection
- Easy management of transactions: bookmark, inheritance, filter, multiple edition, scheduling, reminder
- Easy management of payees and categories: automatic assignment, direct add from the ledger, auto-completion
- Unique fields for transactions: visual payment/status, payment info, tag
- Import and export of many parts of the data in a specific CSV file format

### How HomeBank can analyze the use of my money ?

HomeBank can anticipate future costs and also helps to know where your money comes from, but also more specifically where it goes !

- Anticipate future costs: scheduled transaction inserted before term, future balance
- Dynamic, easy and powerful reports tools with graphical charts
- Monitoring the balance in time and alert on bank overdrafts
- Simple budget and vehicle cost analysis

### I'm new, where do I start ?

If you are new to HomeBank, we suggest:

- You read the lexicon, it contains a lots of essential information and concept
- You read other section you may be interested in of this documentation
- You open and play with the Example file, to do so, use the Tools Menu in the main window, then Show the welcome dialog, then click on the Open Example file button

If you need help, see the support page

### Ask for feature and suggest your ideas

Finally, HomeBank is not only open source, it will also be open to suggestions and feature requests from users.
That's the reason why HomeBank is what it is today.

So... Do not hesitate to ask and suggest !