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Creating Owner Contributions

How to record owner contributions

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Written by Semmy Tan
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Owner contributions are used to record money that the owner sends you and gets deposited into a bank account. These funds are usually used to cover costs such as repairs. For management fees, those are recorded with separate transactions for management charges and management charge payments and owner contributions are generally not used.

Navigate to Accounting > Companies. Select the company you wish to create an owner contribution for. Click on the Company tab and click on the Owner Contribution button on the bottom.

A popup will appear for you to enter in the information for the owner contribution. Fill in the fields:

  • Owner: which owner of that company is adding funds

  • Date: the date the funds were transferred

  • Account: the equity account to record the funds under

  • Site: the property or unit to record the funds under

  • Payment method: the payment method the funds were transferred with

  • Amount: the amount of funds to add

  • The remaining fields will depend on which payment method you selected and are optional.

If you wish to transfer the funds electronically through ProPay, open the Payment Method dropdown and select the option on the bottom for Manage.... This will show a popup window that lists the available payment methods for the owner. Click on the button for Add New on the top right, which will show another popup where you can select either an ACH bank transfer or a credit card payment. Selecting either option will show another popup where you enter in the payment method information. Note that creating an owner contribution this way will charge the owner's selected bank account or card for the amount you entered.

Once created, owner contributions will appear as transactions under Accounting > Companies > Transactions. Additionally, corresponding journal entries will appear in both the selected equity account and the operating bank account for the company (or the undeposited funds account if the payment was made through ProPay or you use the setting for manual deposits).

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