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Bkper Search Guide (Queries)

Find transactions quickly with Search in Bkper

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You can find transactions in your books with search terms. To help you search faster, bkper suggests search terms as you enter words. These terms are based on information from your book, like Accounts, Groups, Descriptions or #hashtags searches.

Search in Bkper

  1. Sign in to Bkper.

  2. Open your book.

  3. Type what you search for on the transactions page.

  4. Press Enter

Refine Searches in Bkper

You can use the following operators to refine your search and get to specific transactions (results).

What you can search by

Search operator

Examples

Specify the account

account:

account:cash

Specify the origin account

from:

from:cash

Specify the destination account

to:

to:expenses

Specify the group

group:

group:expenses

Transactions Status

is:

is:draft
is:posted
is:trashed
is:checked
is:unchecked

Created the TX by user

createdBy:

createdBy:arun

Deleted the TX by user

deletedBy:

deletedBy:robert

Edited the TX by user

editedBy:

editedBy:arun

Checked the TX by user

checkedBy:

checkedBy:pat

Unchecked the TX by user

uncheckedBy:

uncheckedBy:arun

Types of accounts

asset

asset

liability

liability

incoming

incoming

outgoing

outgoing

Search for TX on a specific date

on:

on:2024-01-01

Search for transactions after a specific date

after:

after:2023-12-31

Search for transactions before a specific date

before:

before:2025-01-01

Search for transactions in a date range (between)

after:2023-12-31 before:2025-01-01

Search for transactions with a variable day range

$d

$d-14

(14 days ago)

$d+1

(1 day ahead)

Search for transactions with a variable months range

$m

$m-3

(3 months ago)

$m+1

(1 month ahead)

Search for transactions with a variable year range

$y

$y-1

(one year ago)

$y+1

(1 year ahead)

Combine Date ranges with Date variables to create reports relative to your current date.e.g. after:$d-14 before:$d+1 always shows you the results of the last 14 days. This is especially useful on your Google Sheet reports.

Amount

amount:

amount:2000
(lists all the transactions with amount 2000)

match more than one condition

AND (default)

amount:2000 AND account:Expense

Either conditions

OR

account:'Revenue' OR account:'Other Income'

Bigger than for amounts

>

amount>1000

Smaller than for amounts

<

amount<1000

On Google Sheets you can change the periodicity of your search results.

Get balance values per day

by:d

Displays the results by days.

Get balance values per month

by:m

Displays the results by months.

Get balance values per year

by:y

Displays the results by years.

Use Bkper Queries on The Bkper Add-on for Google Sheets to report data in the format you need it.

Examples

1. Who paid any transport or lodging costs with cash in june 2016? 

2. Any consolidated transactions that ended up in the trash bin? 

3. Month Profit Report 

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