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Point a posting category at your own account

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TALISK_HQ posts each kind of spending to a standard account. If your accountant uses a different account for something, you can point that category at your own account so future entries land there instead.

  1. Go to Ledger › Setup: the Posting accounts tab.
  2. Each row is a standard category (like Office expenses or Cost of goods sold) and shows the account it posts to today.
  3. Open the dropdown on a row and pick one of your own accounts, or use + Create new account to add one without leaving the page.
  4. To go back to TALISK_HQ's standard account, pick TALISK_HQ default at the top of the dropdown or click Reset.

Only your future entries move. Anything already posted stays exactly where it is, so your reports and balances don't change when you set a mapping.

A Cost of goods sold row can only be pointed at an account you've marked as COGS (on Ledger › Accounting), so your gross-profit total stays correct.

If some bills or a recurring template are coded straight to the standard account, TALISK_HQ lists them and asks you to re-code or retire them before it lets you map the category. That keeps those documents from quietly drifting away from the rest of the category.

Good to know: This only changes where FUTURE entries post. It never moves or re-posts an entry you already have, and it never touches a locked period. Only expense and cost-of-goods-sold categories can be pointed at your own account today; revenue and payment-processing-fee categories are not mappable yet. If a bill line or a recurring template is coded straight to the standard account, Talisk asks you to re-code it first rather than moving it silently.