Expenses & cash

Where did the cash go?

Cash leaves the drawer all day and almost none of it gets written down. Lunix counts the drawer at both ends of the shift, and everything that left it in between is a line with a name on it.

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Opening $200.00 Cash taken +$1,384.00 Movements −$280.00 Expected $1,304.00 Counted $1,291.60 Short −$12.40 Register 1 · closed 7:12 PM by Yeisi R.

How it works today

1The drawer is counted in somebody's head at closing, if it is counted at all.
2Money leaves it all day — a delivery, a taxi, a screen bought next door — and none of it is written down.
3At the end of the month the profit looks wrong, and there is nothing to check it against.

How it works in Lunix

Count at both ends, and let the difference be a fact

A session opens with a count and closes with a count. Lunix already knows what should be in there — the opening float, the cash you took, and every movement in between — so the only number anybody types is what they actually counted. It answers Balanced, Short or Over, and the difference is recorded against that session, that register and that person instead of being quietly absorbed.

Register 1 · Close session
Expected cash$1,304.00
Counted cash$1,291.60
Short−$12.40

Opened 8:58 AM with $200.00 · $1,384.00 taken in cash · four movements netting −$280.00 · closed 7:12 PM by Yeisi R.

An expense is a state, not just an amount

Rent you have paid and rent you still owe are not the same number, and a month where you settled three suppliers early is not a month where you spent more. Every expense carries a category, a payment account and a state, so «what did we spend» and «what do we still owe» stop being the same question. Voided expenses stay on the list with their reason rather than disappearing, because a cost that vanishes without a trace is how a month stops adding up.

Expenses · This month
Paid$1,722.20
Already left the account, and cost for this month.
Outstanding (unpaid)$418.40
Recorded and still owed. Cost now, not cash gone.
Recurring, scheduled$980.00
Rent and internet post themselves on their day. Scheduled for next month, so not a cost yet.
Voided$36.00
Kept with its reason instead of deleted, so the total can still be explained.

Everything that left the drawer, with a name on it

Cash going out mid-shift is the part nobody writes down: the delivery, the taxi, the screen bought from the shop next door. Taking it out is a movement on the session with a concept attached, and paying a supplier bill in cash does the same thing from the other side. By closing time the drawer's own history explains the count, before anybody has to defend it.

Register 1 · Cash movements
Concept
Category
Time
Amount
Screen bought next door
Parts
11:20 AM
−$68.00
Motorbike delivery
Delivery
1:05 PM
−$12.00
Added for change
Float
3:40 PM
+$100.00
Removed to the safe
Safe drop
6:30 PM
−$300.00
The number it surfaces

What you spent, what you still owe, and whether the drawer adds up

Four numbers that normally live in four different places — this month's cost, the part of it you have not paid, what is already committed for next month, and whether the cash in the till matches the day that produced it.

$2,140.60Operating expenses, 30 days
$418.40Outstanding (unpaid)
$980.00Scheduled to post next month
−$41.80Register discrepancies, 30 days

A drawer that is never short is usually a drawer nobody counts. The figure worth watching is not zero — it is whether the discrepancies cluster on one register, one shift or one person, which is the only version of this number you can actually do something about.

Count the drawer, not your memory.

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