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  11     HomeBank User manual
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  14     <h1>Using the Remind status to follow up lend/refund money</h1>
  15     <p>When you lend money to someone or someone lent you money, you need to remind or track and remind this.<br>The Remind status of the transaction was designed for that. When a transaction is set to that status it will:</p>
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  17       <li>always be displayed into the register listview (until you force not to)</li>
  18       <li>will not be counted for balance, report and other stuff, as this transaction is a remind and not already a real transaction</li>
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  20     <p>Let's take an example on a way (there is others) to manage that.<br>
  21     So let's say you lend 50 £ to your best friend John Doe today Jan 1, 2000. You can have a dedicated transaction for that or this can be part of an overall transaction (if you pay for a group of friends/the whole family):</p>
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  23       <li>Step 1: <a href="#create">Create the remind transaction(s)</a></li>
  24       <li>Step 2: <a href="#follow">Follow up your remind transaction</a></li>
  25       <li>Step 3: <a href="#follow">At payback, change remind to a real transaction</a></li>
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  29     <h3><a id="create" name="create"></a>Step 1: Create the remind transaction</h3>
  30     <p>Register one or several Remind transaction per payee with:</p>
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  32       <tr><th>Date</th><td>01/01/2000</td></tr>
  33       <tr><th>Payee</th><td>John Doe</td></tr>
  34       <tr><th>Category</th><td>Friend:debt/loan or Family:debt/loan</td></tr>
  35       <tr><th>Amount</th><td>+50 £</td></tr>
  36       <tr><th>Info</th><td>01/01/2000</td></tr>
  37       <tr><th>Status</th><td>Remind</td></tr>
  38       <tr><th>Memo</th><td>payback for the restaurant</td></tr>
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  40     <p>Do the same for any other lend you make that day or others days</p>
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  43     <h3><a id="trigger" name="trigger"></a>Step 2: Follow up your remind transaction</h3>
  44     <p>As the Remind transaction are always visible, you can see it into the register. In a near future I will add a synthesis in the main HomeBank window.</p>
  45     <p>Using the report, you can easily track if the payee is at equity or not</p>
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  48     <h3><a id="trigger" name="trigger"></a>Step 3: At payback, change remind to a real transaction</h3>
  49     <p>At last when you get money back, you just change the transaction status to cleared or reconciled and setup the payback date:</p>
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  51       <tr><th>Date</th><td>13/01/2000</td></tr>
  52       <tr><th>Payee</th><td>John Doe</td></tr>
  53       <tr><th>Category</th><td>Friend:debt/loan or Family:debt/loan</td></tr>
  54       <tr><th>Amount</th><td>+50 £</td></tr>
  55       <tr><th>Info</th><td>01/01/2000</td></tr>
  56       <tr><th>Status</th><td>Cleared</td></tr>
  57       <tr><th>Memo</th><td>payback for the restaurant</td></tr>
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  59       <p>You can change the category as well, add tags, or whatever suit your needs</p>
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  61   <h3>Final note</h3>
  62   <p>This is a way of doing such tracking, some people reported using some accounts and internal xfer as well for complex tracking.</p>
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