AndMoney Clone - Enhancement request? Transaction labels (Increase, Decrease; Spend Receive, etc)

[Russell B]

Hello David,

So I might be getting a bit ahead of myself but.....I wonder should I use this channel to make an AndMoney clone enhancement request?  

Can there be a option for users to set their own labels for the "increase" / "decrease" entries within a new transaction?  AnM I think, has different default labels based on the type of account. But I don't like some of them; and particular ones don't make sense to me, e.g which is "Increase" and which is "Decease" for a Liability type account.  With my accounting background I like "Debit" and "Credit" that makes more sense to me, but at present I can't change some / all of those labels as an option?  

Thanks.RAB

[David Hodges]

Hi Russell,

The plan was to copy anMoneys labels for all the accounts but I'm open to the idea of customizing the labels, I'm trying to avoid database schema changes though...

[Rick Jones]

Hi David

The ability to customise labels would indeed be useful. Could I also suggest the ability to customise the names of the account types? In particular, I don't even know what an "investment cash account" is, I use that section for savings accounts, so the ability to have a label that makes more sense would be good!

6 Jan 2026 21:25:02 David Hodges <davidh...@gmail.com>:

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[Russell B]

Hi David, 

Thanks for the feedback - not sure how exactly this is designed. But I was thinking more about the logic of what's being shown in AnM and your clone based on this.   Comparing the liability accounts (I think it's the same for all AnM types of this kind, so Other Liability, Credit card, Line of Credit, ...definitely the first two)  AnM seems to use the same transaction entry template for all types of transactions, but then Increase / Decrease are somehow reversed for these liability accounts.  

Then I looked again at how this detail is displayed as a result in the Account Detail transaction listing screen - and that's where, as I've just noted in the tester feedback your AndMoney Clone now has the reverse display convention for each transaction for the Increase / Decrease, i.e. increases =negative, reductions  = positive and the closing balance in the Account follows the same sign convention.

Comparing back to AnM - and that's probably where some of my confusion about the labels in the past has come from - AnM shows the movements in the transactions, I think I can say it this way, just as for an Asset account and not as in the Clone.  That is the other way around to the above. Hence there the closing balance has the reverse sign for a Liability account, to when it comes forward to the Accounts summary (which is a bit odd!).

Hence I was left wondering - was this a bug in AnM which you've fixed, or have you made a deliberate change in the Clone?...I think I like the new logic better.

Thanks. RAB  

[David Hodges]

Hi Russell,

In the anMoney database liability accounts are all negative values, then (I assume) anMoney flips the signs for liability accounts when it's displayed to the user.  This is what I was planning on doing anyway - I need to re-write the formatting code to account for currencies and different display formats so at that point I was thinking I'd update the account screens to show liabilities as "positive"...

Maybe this could be a setting "Display liabilities as positive" or something...

David

[Russell B]

...Interesting, ...I was wondering how you actually work out how AnM functions - to be in a position to clone it!  

I like the fact that in the Clone the balance at the bottom of the Account Detail / Transaction list screen has the same sign as the transaction entries just above for liability accounts.  For AnM that's not the case.  Cheers