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Tracking your money

Last updated 15 August 2026

Money is where every number your band touches comes together: guarantees, expenses, merch takings, and member splits, tied back to the shows and tours they came from. Open Money and you'll land on the Overview tab, with tabs across the top for Expenses, Income, Budgets, Reports, Band Bank, and Withholding.

Log income and expenses

The fastest way in is the top-right buttons: + Income and + Expense each jump to the right tab and open its drawer. On a phone, the same quick-log button floats bottom-right so it's reachable one-handed in the van.

One thing to get right early is the show-vs-income boundary. A show's guarantee or fee lives on the show itself and is divided by its settlement — you don't re-enter it here. Only log genuine extras as separate income: a merch overage, a sync placement, a bit of cash on the side. That way nothing gets counted twice.

When you add an expense you can attach a receipt right in the drawer — snap it at the pump or the merch table and it's filed against that expense instead of fading in your pocket. Receipts are free on every tier.

Settlements turn gross into net

For played shows, Money reads your settlement, not the headline fee. Once a show is settled, its income surfaces as the actual artist payout after the deductions — commission, costs, withholding — so the totals reflect what really landed. Un-settled shows fall back to the booked fee. See Settle a show for how that sheet is built.

Import a bank statement

Rather than typing months of history, export a CSV from your bank and go to Money → Import. You'll upload the file, map its columns to date, description, and amount, pick the statement's currency and a default category, and confirm the sign convention for outflows before a preview. It splits cleanly into income and expenses. Importing is free — Import your data walks the whole flow.

Currencies stay separate

Money is multi-currency by row and does no conversion — there are no invented exchange rates. Euro and dollar entries stay in their own buckets, so a mixed-currency run reads honestly instead of collapsing into one made-up total. Set the currency each new entry defaults to under Settings → Preferences.

Filter by period and tour

The period chip (This Month, This Quarter, This Year, and so on) narrows every tab, and the current tab and window live in the URL — so a filtered view is a link you can bookmark or send. Add a tour drill-down and Money scopes shows, expenses, income, and settlements to just that run; a banner shows what's filtered, with a Clear tour filter link to step back out.

Band Bank and Reports

The Band Bank tab handles the other split — how the band itself divides the take between members — and it's free for everyone. Split income and Band Bank goes deep on it.

The Reports tab and its per-tour profitability (full Tour P&L) are a Plus feature, as are Budgets, recurring expenses, forecasting, and the Withholding tax reclaim ledger. Everything else on this page — logging, receipts, import, splits, and per-module CSV export via Settings → Export — is free on every tier.

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