Recurring transactions

Firefly III features the ability to automatically create transactions (so you don't have to). These are called recurring transactions.

A recurring transaction (RT) consists of two sets of data you need to fill in before it'll work as expected.

You must also set up a cron job to fire, so Firefly III can create your transactions.

If you have set up email correctly, Firefly III will automatically email you an overview of the transactions it has created.

Information for the recurring transaction

A recurring transaction needs meta-data, such as a title and a description. You must also indicate if the recurring transaction is active and whether your rules should apply. The first date the recurring transaction should fire should be a date in the future.

The repetition can be set to the following options:

• Every day.
• Every week on day X.
• Every month on day n (1st, 20th).
• Every month on the x-th X-day.
• Every year on a specific date.

Some notes apply:

• The x-th X-day means that Firefly III will create the transaction on the first Wednesday or the third Monday every month.
• If you create a transaction to be repeated on the 29th, 30th or 31st of the month, Firefly III will automatically fall back to the day before if the month isn't long enough.

You can make Firefly III skip every X occurrences.

If the date of the transaction should repeat is in the weekend, Firefly III can automatically:

• Skip the transaction altogether.
• Create the transaction on the Friday before instead. Please note that your recurring transaction will appear to fire a day early.
• Create the transaction on the Monday after instead. Please note that your recurring transaction will appear to fire a day late.
• Simply create the transaction in the weekend.

Information for the transaction itself

These are all the fields you would expect in normal transactions:

• The type of transaction.
• The description, the amount (and currency), and the source and destination accounts.

Optional information includes:

• The foreign currency and amount, if you want to.
• The category, budget, piggy bank and tags.

If you wish to link a bill to the transaction, ensure the option to apply rules is checked and that the new transaction would match this rule.

Cron job

In order to actually create the transactions, Firefly III requires a cron job to be running on your server. It must be set up to run every day. If you are hosting yourself, you can easily set up a new cron job using crontab and simply Googling for "cronjob linux".

Just wait patiently and the cron job will create the transactions during the night.