Sync trades and payouts to Cash Account

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Sharesight’s Cash Account Sync feature simplifies tracking your brokerage and bank account balances by bringing them together in one place. This provides a clear view of your total net worth and helps you stay on top of your finances with ease.

How it works

In Sharesight, all buy and sell trades can be assigned a trade source.

This assignment occurs automatically in the following cases:

• CSV file imports via a broker tile
• Trades imported via broker API connection
• Trades imported from broker trade confirmations

However, in the following cases, the trade source must be manually updated:

• Generic CSV file imports
• Manually recorded trades

Currently, a source cannot be assigned to payouts; therefore, this feature only allows linking a single cash account for payouts.

When you link your Sharesight portfolio to one or more cash accounts, the value of buy and sell transactions, as well as payouts, will be automatically reflected in the designated cash account.

How to sync buy & sell trades

1. To enable this feature, go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Cash Accounts’ in your Sharesight portfolio.

1. You will see a list of brokers/ trade sources.

2. Select the respective cash account for each broker/ trade source from the dropdown menu. (Get in touch with Sharesight support if you can’t find your brokerage platform)

How to sync payouts

Note: Currently you can only sync all payouts to a single cash account.

Under ‘Payout cash account’, select a cash account from the dropdown. In this example, a separate cash account has been selected to sync payouts.

Once both the trades and payout Cash Accounts are selected, click on ‘Apply changes’.

Manage synced trades in cash account

1. Click on the cash account in the overview page.

2. Navigate to ‘Manage synced trades’.

1. Select a start date or sync trades since inception to sync the transactions.

You can expect to view the cash records in the nominated Cash Account as below:

Important notes

• If you have invested in more than one market with one broker, you are likely to have a separate cash account for each currency. As the current feature allows one cash account per broker, additional cash accounts with the same broker can be assigned using the ‘Sync unassigned trades option, but this will not work if you have 3 or more different cash accounts with the same broker.

• The value of your Cash Account is included when calculating your portfolio’s value, but does not impact the percentage return figure.

• You can only use this feature with Sharesight’s built-in Cash Account feature.

• Clicking on a Cash Account transaction that has been created from a synced trade will bring up the trade “edit” form. Cash Account transactions will update automatically when the trade is edited. As these transactions are linked, it is not possible to edit the cash transaction separately from the underlying trade.

• Updating a linked transaction will result in an update to the cash transaction value and deleting a linked transaction will delete the corresponding linked cash transaction.

• If a payout has been reinvested then it will not be linked to a cash transaction.

• Net dividend amount for FX payouts will be calculated using the exchange rates at the time of the payout.

Last modified on March 24, 2025 UTC