The Add Asset wizard's Cash flow history & outlook step uses one dated timeline for two purposes: establishing periods that already happened and recording what is expected going forward.
Where It Lives
Open Capital -> Assets -> Add asset. The current wizard has eight progress steps:
Type -> Details -> Value -> Funding -> Recurring -> Cash flow -> Owner -> Documents
Cash flow is Step 6. The separate Recurring step appears only for retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, crypto wallets, and cash/savings accounts.
Add a Cash Flow Period
For each period, record:
- A start date
- An end date, or Ongoing
- The amount
- Weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, or annual frequency
Use Add a cash flow change when the amount or cadence changed over time. For example, one period can describe a prior lease and a second ongoing period can describe the current lease.
Past and Future Mean Different Things
- Dates before today establish cash-flow history that can be backfilled with the amounts actually received.
- An ongoing period or future end date defines the expected outlook.
- Expected this month is a Modeled monthly equivalent based on the active period. It is not an Actual receipt.
If the asset does not produce cash flow, select This asset doesn't produce cash flow. Personal-use real estate can skip the cash-flow step automatically.
Recurring Contributions Are Not Income
The optional Recurring step records money scheduled to go into an eligible account. Policy Stack can log those contributions on schedule, but the account value still changes only when a balance or valuation is recorded.
Cash flow records money the asset produces. Keep contribution schedules and asset income separate so capital-in events are not counted as returns.
After Setup
The saved periods define the history and outlook for the asset. Record or backfill Actual cash receipts from the asset detail page. Editing an Actual receipt changes the recorded cash-flow history; changing a projected period changes the expected schedule.