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r/ynab • … • u/turtlesinatrenchcoat

Any way to exclude certain transactions from reports?

There's a lot of times where we pay for something and get paid back for it. For example - getting the bill at a restaurant, and then others venmo us back for their share. Or in a bigger example, we pay $3000 for an airbnb for a week and friends/family pay us back for their portion.

In the budget view, this is easy to manage as the reimbursements come in. I assign the expense to the category like Travel, and cover it (because I have to be ready to pay the cc bill no matter when I get paid back). And then when the reimbursement comes in, I assign it accordingly.

I like looking at reports though, and it really skews the numbers to see we "spent" like $10,000 on travel in a year, and then you look closer at what we got paid back for and it's really more like $6000. Is there any way to split the transaction or mark that it's not actually money spent in that category? How do others handle this?

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