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The Radinus user manual

Keeping your accounts, reconciling your statements, following your budget and understanding where the money goes.

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.

Buying this manual is entirely optional and has no connection with the software: Radinus remains completely free, and all its features are available whether or not you buy the manual.

Complete edition

367 pages · 16 chapters · up to date with Radinus 3.3.0

All of Radinus in depth: every window, every feature and the recent additions, explained step by step.

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Essential edition

124 pages · the basics of Radinus 2.x

The basic workings of Radinus, enough to keep your accounts day to day. It does not cover the recent additions, which are in the complete edition.

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What is inside

Every window has its own entry

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 thematic 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, and many more topics. 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. This edition covers the new features of Radinus up to version 3.3.0.

16

chapters

149

sections

245

screenshots

367

pages

Figures for the complete edition.

How it is written

The vocabulary explained as you go

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 245 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.

By the last page

What you will be able to do

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 software is, and will remain, free. An optional paid user manual is available separately.

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Please note

The manual is written in French. There is no English edition at present.

The manual is a paid product, available in electronic and paper editions. Buying it is entirely optional: Radinus remains fully functional, with no limits whatsoever, whether or not you buy the manual. Published by the author of the software, it helps, for those who wish to support the project, to pay for the website hosting and the development of Radinus, which remain free. For those who wish to, buying it is a way of supporting Radinus. A big thank you to them.

To practise with

A fictional set of accounts, ready to import

Learning to keep accounts on your own accounts is learning to swim in the deep end. This file spares you that: it is a Radinus backup filled with entirely fictional data — accounts, transactions, budgets, cheques — on which you can try anything without risking a thing. The entries are dated within the year 2026, so that budgets and statistics make sense from the moment you open them.

It is a backup file: download it, then bring it into Radinus using the restore-a-backup function. You can then follow the examples from the manual, reconcile statements, build a budget, and start over as many times as you like.

Before you import

Import it into a fresh accounts folder, not the one holding your own data: restoring a backup replaces whatever the open folder contains.

Download the example file (22 KB)