Gold — jewellery & investment
Gold is held by weight, not by value. Businessly tracks what you hold, what moved during the year, and applies your rate at the end.
Gold is the one category where the amount is not a number of rupees. You hold a weight, and its value depends on the rate on your Zakat day.
So Businessly tracks the weight, and applies the rate once — see Rates & the calculation.
Two kinds, deliberately separate
| Gold — jewellery | What is worn. Has a deduction applied. |
| Gold — investment | Bars, coins, nuggets. No deduction. |
They are separated because the arithmetic differs, not because the metal does.
Weights
Enter weight in whichever unit you actually think in — Unit offers Tola & masha or Grams. Both are stored the same way, so you can mix them across items.
Opening weight and movements
Each gold position has an Opening weight — what you held when the year began — then a list of Movements for anything that changed during it.
A movement is one of:
- Bought or Bought more
- Encashed — sold for cash
- Gifted out or Sold or gifted
- Received — gifted to you
Each records the Weight, and for a purchase or sale the Rate /g and Total.
If you try to remove more than you hold, it stops you: Can't remove more than is held.
Why movements matter
You could just write down the closing weight. Recording movements instead means next year's opening weight is already correct, and you have a record of when a piece came in or went out.
The jewellery deduction
Jewellery carries a deduction before the calculation — for stones, wastage, or whatever basis you follow. It is a single percentage, and it is editable at the point of calculation so you can see its effect immediately.
That is covered in Rates & the calculation.