Albert determines your income by reviewing your transaction history over time. We look at your merchants, transaction amounts, and deposit timing to identify which transactions are income. This data also helps us predict your future income.
To re-categorize an existing transaction as income
- Search for the transaction. Visit the Budget tab, tap the 🔍 in the upper left, and enter the merchant name. (In this case, the merchant name is the company who issues your paychecks.)
- When you find the transaction, tap it.
- Select Income as the transaction type.
To manually create an income transaction
- Go to the Budget tab and tap the 🔍 in the top left corner.
- Tap + in the top right corner.
- Enter the merchant name, transaction amount and the date.
- Tap ? Uncategorized. Scroll down and select Income as the category.
- Select Income as the transaction type.