Finance
Every movement of money, in one list. Payments in, refunds out, the fees taken off the top, and any adjustments.
Open it from Reports → Finance. The page is headed Finance Reports. It's the report to look at when you want to know what you actually earned, as opposed to what you invoiced.
The three figures at the top
Total received, Refunds and Earnings, for whatever period and filters you have set.
Total received is everything that came in. The figure labelled Refunds is everything that went out: refunds, the processing fees taken off card payments, and any adjustment recorded as money out. Earnings is the first minus the second. That's the honest number.
What's in it
One row per movement, with the Date, a Description, the Type, the Payment channel and the Amount. Under the description, each row links to the contact and the invoice it relates to. Money in is green, money out red.
Types you'll see:
| Type | What it is |
|---|---|
| Payment | Money in against an invoice |
| Refund | Money returned to a client |
| Stripe Fee | Stripe's processing fee on a card payment |
| CoreHue Fee | CoreHue's own cut, which is set to zero |
| Adjustment | A correction |
Fees get their own rows rather than sitting as a note on the payment. So a card payment of £500 appears as a £500 payment and a separate fee. Earnings has already taken the fee off. To see one payment's own fee breakdown and what you kept, open the payment from the Payments page.
Filtering
Search by contact name or invoice number.
Period. All time, This week, This month, Last month, This quarter, This year, Last year, or Custom with your own dates. It opens on This year.
Currency, when you work in more than one.
Entry type. All entries, Payment, Refund or Adjustment.
Transaction type. Money in or money out.
Payment channel. All channels, Cash, Check, Bank Transfer, Card (Stripe) or Other.
On a wide screen, entry type, transaction type and payment channel sit together behind a Filters button. Clear resets everything back to This year.
Channel is worth checking occasionally. If almost everything arrives by bank transfer, the card processing you're paying for isn't buying you much. If most clients use the card link, keeping Stripe healthy matters more than you'd think.
Entries are permanent
Nothing here can be edited. It's a record of what happened, and records that can be rewritten aren't worth keeping.
If something is wrong, the fix is a further action: a refund, a correction to the payment, or an adjustment. Each is recorded in its turn. That's how accounting works everywhere, and it's a good thing rather than an inconvenience.
Dates
Each entry carries the moment it was recorded, which is not always the date you typed on a payment. A cash payment you take on the 1st and enter on the 5th sits on the 5th here, and on the 1st in the Payments list.
So for what arrived and when, use The payments list. For what a period netted after refunds and fees, use this report. Enter payments promptly and the two agree.
Currencies stay separate
If you work in more than one currency, figures aren't combined, because adding pounds to euros produces a number that means nothing. Pick the currency you want to look at.
What it isn't
Not a tax return. It's a record of money through CoreHue. Anything you were paid outside CoreHue isn't here.
Not profit. It's income, refunds and payment fees. Your own costs aren't in CoreHue.
Not a substitute for an accountant. It's the raw material they'll ask you for.
Worth doing
Look at it monthly. Ten minutes, and it's how you notice a quiet quarter early enough to do something.
Filter to the year and work through it on screen with your accountant. The report is read on screen. There's no file to download.
Check outstanding separately. This report shows money that moved. For what's owed, see The payments list.