Fixing a mistake
Wrong amount, wrong person, wrong day — you can correct it, and the correction is visible rather than hidden.
Everyone types the wrong number sometimes. Businessly lets you fix it, and it does so honestly: the original never vanishes, so your book can always explain itself.
Two ways to correct something
Tap the entry — on a customer's statement, in the cash book, or in expenses — and the ⋮ menu offers:
| What it does | |
|---|---|
| Edit | Change the amount, note or details. The entry keeps an edited tag. |
| Cancel entry | Undo it entirely. It stays visible, struck through, and stops counting. |
Editing
Choose Edit, change what was wrong, and save. The entry now carries a small edited tag — tap it to see Before edit and the original values.
Cancelling
Cancel entry reverses it. The line stays in the history with a line through it and no longer affects any balance or total.
What cannot be edited this way
Bill payments and installment payments are managed from their own screens, with Record and Undo, so they do not offer a free-form edit. Undo the payment and record it again correctly.
Loans have their own Mark returned action rather than an edit — see Loans.
Wrong date
An Edit deliberately keeps the entry's original date — that is why the Date field does not appear when you are editing. Changing the day of an entry that already counted would quietly move money between two days' totals.
So treat a wrong date like a wrong person: Cancel entry on the wrong day, then record it again with the Date field set to the day it really happened. Both actions stay visible, and your daily totals and seven-day chart follow the new date.
Wrong person
There is no "move to another customer". Cancel the entry on the wrong person and record it again on the right one. Both actions stay visible, which is exactly what you want if anyone ever asks.