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Getting real value out of the app. Workflows, imports, shared household ledgers, and the features that are easy to miss.

Getting your investments in without typing them
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Getting your investments in without typing them

How Cifrea reads a broker statement PDF, why it records a month-end value rather than a live price, and what to do if your broker lays the page out differently.

3 min read

Every road into the ledger, and where they meet
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Every road into the ledger, and where they meet

By hand, from a receipt, from a bank text, from an Apple Pay tap, from a statement or a broker PDF. Each road has a job, and all of them end in Approvals.

6 min read

Importing a bank statement without creating a mess
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Importing a bank statement without creating a mess

Importing beats typing, and has about six ways to quietly corrupt a ledger. Here is each one, and how to avoid it.

5 min read

Your first week: what to set up, and in what order
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Your first week: what to set up, and in what order

Most people set up a finance app in the wrong order and quietly stop. Here is the sequence that works, and why each step comes before the next.

5 min read