Getting Started

How the app is organized

Learn what each main page does and when you should use it.

Updated: 2026-02-18

Before you start

  • Valid account login
  • Entity type (personal or business) selected

Layered workflow

Layer 1: Foundation setup

  • Configure business settings and invoice details before anything else so invoices and communications use the correct identity from the first day.
  • Confirm entity type before any upload or editing to avoid mixing personal and business data.

Layer 2: Data quality loop

  • Upload source files (bank statements, receipts, CSVs), then immediately validate extracted records in Review.
  • Fix uncertain categories and wrong amounts early — before month-end reconciliation becomes expensive.

Layer 3: Billing operations

  • Create and send one invoice manually before enabling recurring schedules.
  • After a successful test send, scale to automated schedules and custom branded templates.

What each main area does

Numwisely is organized into five primary areas: Home (Insights), Upload, Review, Subscriptions, and Invoices. Each area has a clear purpose so you move from raw financial documents to clean bookkeeping and client billing without confusion.

The practical daily workflow is: upload documents first, clean and validate them in Review, monitor recurring costs in Subscriptions, then create or schedule client invoices in Invoices. The Home page gives you the financial summary after all data is clean.

Home / Insights

The Home page shows your financial overview: total income, total expenses, net balance, and category breakdowns. Charts display spending trends over time and highlight top expense categories. This is a read-only reporting surface — no editing happens here.

Insights becomes accurate only after Upload and Review are done correctly. If numbers look wrong here, the fix is always in Review, not in Insights.

Upload

Upload is where you import financial documents: PDF bank statements, CSV exports, scanned receipts, and images. You choose a processing mode (Standard or AI) before uploading, and the system extracts expense and income rows automatically.

After an upload completes, you receive a summary of rows extracted, rows that could not be parsed, and any errors. Move to Review immediately after every upload session.

Review

Review is where you validate, correct, and finalize extracted transactions before they become part of your bookkeeping. You can edit category, amount, date, and description for any row. Bulk editing, filtering by month, category, and source file, and inline corrections are all available here.

Do not skip Review. Errors corrected here prevent wrong totals in Insights, incorrect invoice references, and audit problems later.

Subscriptions

Subscriptions detects recurring charges in your uploaded expenses and lets you manage them with renewal dates and reminders. It is useful for controlling software subscriptions, SaaS costs, and any repeating monthly charge.

Detection works from already-uploaded and reviewed transactions. For best results, have at least two months of transactions uploaded before running detection.

Invoices

Invoices covers the full billing lifecycle: creating invoices, managing clients, setting up recurring schedules, configuring email sending, and managing custom branded templates. Invoices support English, German, and Finnish output, VAT and EU reverse charge handling, and PDF generation.

Personal vs business data

You can switch between personal and business data at the top of every page. The toggle controls which workspace you see and edit. This keeps private and company finances separated across all views — Insights, Review, Upload history, and Subscriptions all respect the selected entity type.

Always confirm the correct entity type is selected before starting an upload batch or editing session. Records saved under the wrong entity type must be deleted and re-uploaded — there is no bulk move between personal and business.