Written by the author of the software with one fixed idea: that a reader who has never touched a computer should be able to read it from cover to cover without ever stumbling over a word.
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The manual opens with a quick-start chapter that assumes nothing: why Radinus asks you to create an accounts folder, how to create your first bank account, how to enter your first transaction. Twenty minutes of reading and you are ready to use it.
Then come nine chapters, arranged around what you are trying to do: keeping your accounts, tracking cheques, planning a budget, importing your bank statements, automating what comes back every month, protecting your data. Each chapter starts from the need before opening the window that answers it.
And every window in the software has its own entry: what it is for, which menu leads to it, what each column holds, what each button does. Tables let you find a field at a glance, and boxed notes point out the shortcuts that save time.
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Marking a transaction as cleared, reconciling a statement, telling the bank balance from the real balance and the final balance: these ideas lie at the heart of sound bookkeeping. They are explained the way you would explain them to a friend, without jargon and without condescension.
The 54 screenshots are not decorative thumbnails: they show the real windows, filled with one demonstration set of accounts followed from chapter to chapter. You never lose the thread of the example.
You can read it in order, like a course. You can also keep it beside the keyboard and look up only the entry you need: the detailed contents and the table of figures take you there in seconds.
Keep your accounts without giving up your Sundays.
Find in three clicks what you spent at the garage last year.
Know, on the 12th of the month, what will be left on the 30th.
The manual is written in French. There is no English edition at present.
It is published by the author of Radinus, and its sales help pay for the website hosting and the development of the software, both of which remain free.