Does the app record the rent by itself on the 1st?

No. It proposes it, with a notification; the movement enters the book when you confirm it. Nothing is recorded without you.

I paid October's rent on 29 September — which month?

September: the movement keeps the date the money left. The instalment it settles is kept separately, and the schedule moves on to November.

What happens to past payments if I delete a schedule?

They stay. Each recorded payment is money that left an account, with its own date, account, category and amount. What disappears is the schedule and its history — the app says how many payments exist before deleting.

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Rent, subscriptions and the calendar — movements that repeat

Free · up to 5 schedules (unlimited on Premium) · calendar is Premium

Rent, the gym, the accountant's retainer, the yearly insurance, a loan with a last instalment. A recurring movement remembers them and proposes each one when it is due — and never records anything by itself.

Creating a schedule

Menu › Schedule › +.
At the top, Expense or Income. Then the name, the expected amount, the category, the account, the frequency (once, weekly, monthly, yearly) and the first payment date.
Optionally a last payment, for something that ends, like a loan; otherwise it has No end date.
Notifications: from version 1.7.3, a schedule has the same control as a document. A new one follows the Settings — the switch says Following Settings and uses the days set in Settings › Formats › Due-date reminders. Touch the switch or the days and the schedule decides for itself: on with its own days, or off. Follow Settings hands it back.

Editing a schedule — the amount, the account, anything — keeps its reminders as they were. Up to version 1.7.2, saving the schedule form could switch them off; version 1.7.3 puts the schedules switched off that way back to following the Settings.

In a schedule, choosing the account does not change Professional: for a business cost, tap Professional before choosing the category.

The Entity field appears when Settings › Formats › Entity Field is Optional or Required. Leave it empty for a subscription; give it the supplier or the client when their invoices matter (see below). If you never use entities, set the field to Disabled.

Free plan: up to 5 schedules; the limit stops creation only — anyone with more keeps, edits and pays them all. Premium: unlimited.

Paying an instalment

In the Schedule list, each one shows the instalment still to pay — the same one Record settles: this period's while it is not recorded, otherwise the next one. When its day has passed and it is still not recorded, it is marked OVERDUE, in amber.

With notifications on, the app warns on the days you choose and on the day; tap the notification and the form opens filled in — confirm. When you press Record, the line under the button says which instalment is being paid, and after saving the app confirms which one was recorded and which is next. The movement takes the day it is recorded, and the money leaves the account like any other expense. At the bottom of the form, Recorded payments lists what has been paid: date, account, amount.

Paying ahead is normal: October's rent paid on 29 September is a September movement, and the schedule then points at November.

A supplier who invoices every month

For a supplier who sends an invoice each month — the accountant, the cleaning company, office supplies — give the schedule that supplier as its Entity, with the same amount as each invoice.

The invoice is recorded as usual: Menu › Current accounts › Documents › To Pay.
When it is due, open the schedule › Record. If the supplier has open invoices, a sheet lists them, each with a box; when there is only one, it comes ticked.
Paid: the payment form opens filled in. Save, and the ticked invoice is settled — on the supplier's Account statement, the invoice and, under it, the payment.

The payment uses the schedule's amount; the app applies it to the invoice up to what is still due. With several open invoices, tick the ones this payment covers. Record in that sheet, with none ticked, saves the payment without settling any invoice. For an income schedule, the sheet lists the client's invoices to receive. Invoices and current accounts are Premium.

The calendar (Premium)

Menu › Calendar. The month at a glance: the days with a payment expected from a schedule, or with a document still to pay or to receive falling due, are marked in colour — green for income, red for expense, yellow for documents, blue when a day has more than one kind. Tap a day for its list and that day's totals. An instalment already recorded and a document already paid are no longer marked; a document partly paid shows only what is still outstanding. Recorded movements are not shown here: they are in Menu › Transactions.

With a screen reader — TalkBack on Android, VoiceOver on iPhone — from version 1.7.7 each day is read with its weekday in the app’s language and the date as Settings › Formats › Date Format writes it: Sunday, 27/09/2026 with dd/mm/yyyy, Sunday, 09/27/2026 with mm/dd/yyyy. The arrows either side of the month say whether they go to the previous month or the next. Before, a day was read as a long date, whatever the format chosen.

Questions

Does the app record the rent by itself on the 1st?: No. It proposes it, with a notification; the movement enters the book when you confirm it. Nothing is recorded without you.
I paid October's rent on 29 September — which month?: September: the movement keeps the date the money left. The instalment it settles is kept separately, and the schedule moves on to November.
What happens to past payments if I delete a schedule?: They stay. Each recorded payment is money that left an account, with its own date, account, category and amount. What disappears is the schedule and its history — the app says how many payments exist before deleting.

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Checked against ZeniCash 1.5.0 on 2026-09-10. Where a feature is Premium, it says so.