# Income: a plain-text ledger, not a payment integration

Reads logs/income.md in your vault, a file you or an agent appends to by hand. There is no Stripe connection, no currency conversion, and a malformed line just vanishes rather than erroring.

*https://perpetualtechnologies.co.uk/support/income-page — last checked 2026-09-08*

## Steps

1. Reach Income from the Dashboard’s Income tile.
2. Add an entry by writing a line into logs/income.md yourself, or letting an agent do it: - YYYY-MM-DD | venture | amount | note.
3. The page totals everything, charts it by month, and breaks it down by venture.

## How to tell it worked

A line you add in the correct format appears in the entries table, and the total updates to include it.

## If it does not work

**The total looks wrong when you have entries in more than one currency.**

Currency is not tracked at all. Every amount is stripped down to its digits and summed together under a single £ sign, so mixing $, £ and plain numbers in the ledger silently produces a wrong total.

**An entry you wrote is missing from the total.**

Only lines that start with something date-shaped count. A bullet that does not begin with four digits is treated as ordinary prose and silently skipped, with nothing telling you it was ignored.

**Income is not there at all.**

It needs Personal or above, the same gate as the rest of the Dashboard.

## Related guides

- [The Dashboard: a rearrangeable home screen, not a fixed report](https://perpetualtechnologies.co.uk/support/dashboard-command-center)
- [The Board: six columns, and what an agent is not allowed to do on it](https://perpetualtechnologies.co.uk/support/using-the-board)

## Still stuck

Bug reports belong in the app, in Settings, About. Those carry no contact details, so they
get fixed rather than answered. To get a reply, email us instead: that route targets two
business days. https://perpetualtechnologies.co.uk/contact