Cash & Float

Say you keep G$100,000 as your float. You lend a customer G$20,000 in the morning and they pay you back by evening. Nothing was earned, nothing was lost — but written into a normal income and expense book, that day looks like a G$20,000 expense and G$20,000 of income that never existed. Do that a few times a day and your numbers stop meaning anything.

Cash & Float keeps that money separate. Lending and getting repaid only move your cash on hand up and down — they are never counted as earnings. The only thing that counts as earnings here is a fee.

Open Float in the menu, tap Add movement, and pick what happened:

Top up— you put your own cash in (start with this: enter what's in the drawer today).
Take out — you took your own cash out.
Lend out — cash went to someone; type their name and BillBook remembers they owe you.
Got back — they paid you back; use the same name and their balance clears.
Fee earned — what you actually made on a transaction. This is the only entry that counts as earnings.

Cash on hand — what should be in the drawer right now. Out on loan — the total people still owe you, with a name-by-name list underneath. Fees earned this month — your real earnings, kept separate from your invoiced income so neither number pollutes the other.

Entries are never edited — tap the bin next to a wrong one to remove it (all the balances recalculate instantly) and enter the right one. That way the log always tells the true story of the drawer.

This ledger doesn't appear in your Insights or P&L, and it doesn't create invoices or receipts — it's the drawer, not the paperwork. If a customer needs a document for a payment, make a receipt from Documents like normal. And it's a record book, not a lending machine: BillBook never moves real money.