Transactions on Ledgy are any event that has happened and affected your cap table or involves your equity plans. You can add individual transactions by going to Ownership > Transactions, and on the page that opens, click on the "Add transaction" button in the top-right.

There will be a few types of transactions that you can select from the drop-down list that appears, but you can also click on "Other transactions".

This will open a modal where you can select between all types of transactions, both regarding actual shares and equity plans.

The different types of transactions will appear grouped by date in chronological order with different easily identifiable colorful labels.

Adding a financing round allows you to add multiple investments within a financing round quickly. You also have the option of setting up an employee pool.
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For each round, you get to define the Event Name, Share Class, and Share Price. Within each round, every investment transaction will contain information on the Stakeholder name, Investment amount, and the Number of shares.

Read more about financing rounds.

Add a single share issuance for one stakeholder/entity.

Exercises will also appear as Share Issuances.

Read more about issuing shares.

Cancel shares that are currently owned by a stakeholder/entity. The total number of shares in the company will be decreased.

Read more about decreasing shares.

Add a transfer of shares between two stakeholders or legal entities. For each transfer, an optional field captures the transfer price recorded.

Read more about share transfers.

Add a convertible loan with all parameters: cap, discount, interest, expiry, etc.

For each convertible loan, a "Convert to Shares" button allows you to create a linked Share Issuance transaction to record and track the conversion.

Read more about convertible loans.

Add an equity grant and manage various parameters such as time-based or custom vesting, strike (or exercise) price, and purchase price (for warrants), among many others.

Our growing list of supported grant types includes:

Do you want to read more about equity plans?

You can add and link a cash settlements to any grants (except stock grants). You can also choose to Cash Settle all or part of a grant in Ownership > Transactions or Equity Plans > Grants.

To add a cash settlement to a grant, use the Three Dot button beside the grant to select Cash Settle. You will also have the option to select Return to the pool, which returns the amount settled to the original pool. If the source of the pool is set to Reserved Shares from a stakeholder, the amount settled will return to the stakeholder.

Add a share price that will determine the valuation at that point in time. Ledgy supports various types of valuation events:

Read more about valuations.

Convert a stakeholder's shares to a different share class.

Read more about class conversion.

A stock split will split existing shares up to the stock split date based on the split factor set.
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Adding a stock split allows you to easily manage transactions dated before the split, as Ledgy automatically adjusts the number of shares.

Do you want to read more about stock splits?

Distribute dividends to all stakeholders of a certain share class.

Read more about dividends.

Add a cash payout to any individual stakeholder. This will add a Payout transaction allowing you to track the stakeholder, date, and amount paid.

Read more about payouts.

For an in-depth look at how to start adding transactions to your Ledgy account. Check out our Getting Started article!