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Connect Accounts

You have just learned the basics concepts and signed up an account, congratulations!

Now, let's connect your bank accounts to Fina. Fina supports Plaid and MoneyKit to connect your bank accounts. Having two aggregators gives us the best coverage and reliability.

Plaid is the most popular bank aggregator in the world, and MoneyKit is a new player in the market. We are using MoneyKit to cover the banks that Plaid does not support.

In addition, we provide a manual connection option for you to maintain your manual transactions in a Google Spreadsheet, and Fina will automatically sync the data from the spreadsheet.

Connect Bank Accounts​

By default, you have a profile called Personal in your workspace.

  1. Go to Accounts page.
  2. Click on the + Account button.
  3. Follow the wizard to connect your bank accounts.
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All connections are secure and encrypted through OAUTH technology. We do not store your bank credentials, and we do not have access to your bank accounts.

Connect Manual Accounts​

  1. Go to Accounts page.
  2. Click on the + Account button.
  3. Select Manual as the connection type.
  4. Enter the account name, balance value, and select the currency.

Currency​

Currency is a very important concept in Fina. Every account has its own currency setting which indicates the currency for the transaction amount in the account. The currency of accounts connected through Plaid and MoneyKit is automatically set to the currency of the bank account.

What if I want to see all my data in a completely different currency? System setting is the answer.

  1. Go to User Settings.
  2. Click on the System tab.
  3. Select the currency you want to use.
  4. Click on the Save button.
  5. All your data will be converted to the new currency.

Crypto Currency​

All currency conversion in Fina is live and real-time. That means you can see the value of your crypto currency in real-time as well if you do.

Though Fina does not support crypto wallet connection yet, you can still track crypto value you hold, contributing to your total net worth:

  1. Add a manual account
  2. Set its currency to the crypto currency, such as BTC.
  3. Set its value, such as 1.5 indicating your holding of 1.5 Bitcoins.

Auto Balance for Manual Accounts​

Fina provides an auto balance feature for manual account connection.

This feature will automatically update the balance of your manual account based on the transactions you have connected through Google Spreadsheet.

  1. Go to Accounts page.
  2. Click the manual account to open Account Details.
  3. Turn on Auto Balance option.
  4. Input the Start Balance value for this account.
  5. The account's current balance will be automatically.
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Spreadsheet sync has some delay, if you don't see updated transactions, please wait for its next sync cyle, usually 30 minutes at maximum.