Add, edit and correct trades

1. Select Add an investment beside the heading on the Dashboard, Holdings or Transactions, and check the portfolio under Adding to.
2. Choose Shares & ETFs or Crypto.
3. Type the code in full, such as BHP, VAS or AAPL. Investments you already own are suggested as you type.
4. Check the market and the currency. For US shares, the price and fee are in US dollars.
5. Choose Bought or Sold.
6. Enter the trade date: the date on the contract note, not the settlement date. It decides the financial year.
7. Enter the units, the price per unit and the brokerage, GST included. Brokerage is part of the cost base.
8. Check the summary, then save.

Trades in another currency are converted to Australian dollars at the exchange rate on the trade date. Markets other than the ASX, and crypto, need Plus or Pro.

1. Open Transactions, or the investment's own page from Holdings. If you are looking at All portfolios, choose the portfolio the trade is in first.
2. Select Edit on the trade to change its date, units, price per unit or fee, then save.
3. Select Delete to remove it. You are asked to confirm, and it comes out of every total, past ones included.

To change the code, the market or whether it was a buy or a sale, delete the trade and add it again. If every trade for an investment was filed under the wrong exchange, its page has an option to move them all to another one.

Dividend reinvestment (DRP)

Add each allotment as a purchase: the units issued, the price on the DRP statement, and no brokerage. See dividend reinvestment plans and tax.

A share split or consolidation

Portfoli.au doesn't change your units for you, except in files from Raiz. Edit each earlier purchase you still hold so its units and price are in the new terms, keeping the total cost and the date the same. After a 2-for-1 split, 100 units at $40 become 200 units at $20.

Shares moved from another broker

Enter the original purchases, with their first dates and prices. Don't record a sale and a new purchase: the move wasn't a sale. See investing with more than one broker.

Shares you were given or inherited

Enter them as a purchase. The date and cost to use depend on how you got them, so check with a registered tax agent.

"You hold 50 units. Enter that or less, or add the missing purchase first."

A sale can't be more than you held on its date. Add the purchase that is missing, or check the date of the sale.

The market I need isn't in the list

The Free plan covers the ASX. Every other market and crypto are on Plus and Pro.

• Getting started with Portfoli.au: Create an account, get your first trades in, and find your way around.
• Import trades from your broker's file: Upload a CSV or Excel file, check the preview, and fix rows that can't be read.
• Email import: forward your contract notes: A private address for contract notes, how to forward them, and confirming each trade.
• Understanding your returns and figures: Market value, cost base, gains, total return, yearly return and the benchmark line.
• All help, or the guides to investing and tax.

Still stuck? Email support@portfoli.au. New to Portfoli.au? Create a free account, with no credit card needed.