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Tracking net worth across a household

Tracking net worth as a couple or household. How to enable Owners, assign them to rows, opt in per-heading sub-sections, and handle renames without losing data.
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Quick start

FirePath lets you tag every asset, liability, income, and expense with an Owner — useful when tracking finances for a couple, family, or any multi-person household.

  • Enable Owners in Settings first (off by default for solo users).
  • Add owners — your name, partner's name, kids if relevant.
  • Assign owners when adding or editing any row.
  • Totals still roll up — the Dashboard and hero numbers always show the household figure.

The advanced power — per-heading owner sub-sections — is below.


The rest of this guide is for users who want to tune the screen. If you're happy with the defaults, you can stop here — everything below is optional customisation.

Going deeper

When to enable Owners

Enable Owners toggle in Settings
① Settings → Display → Enable Owners.

Owners is off by default because most users are solo. Flip it on if:

  • You're tracking finances as a couple or family and want to see each person's share of the household balance sheet.
  • Some assets are legally in one name (Super funds, individual brokerage accounts) and you want that reflected in the app.
  • You want per-person income and expense tallies for tax or discussion purposes.

Once enabled, every Add/Edit screen shows an Owner chip row — pick who the item belongs to, or leave it as None for shared items.

Per-heading sub-sections

Owners list in App Lists with drag handles
① Owner row. ② Drag handle to reorder. ③ Add new owner with the + button.

When you have ≥2 owners, each Asset Heading and Liability Heading gets its own "split by owner" toggle (inside the heading's edit screen in Settings → App Lists). Flip the toggle on for the specific headings where it makes sense. The Net Worth screen then shows those headings split by owner, each sub-section with its own subtotal.

Typical setup: sub-section Super (because each person has their own fund) and Investments (if you track brokerage accounts separately), but keep Property and Cash combined (shared family assets).

Sub-sectioning is a display feature only — totals always roll up. The Dashboard and Net Worth hero always show household figures regardless of sub-section settings.

Renaming cascades

Heading edit dialog with Split by owner toggle
① Split-by-owner toggle is per-heading, not global — turn it on only where it matters.

Rename an owner in Settings and FirePath rewrites the owner field on every asset, liability, income, and expense that referenced the old name, in a single database transaction. No orphan records, no manual clean-up.

This matters because owner names are stored as strings (not foreign keys) for simplicity and backup/restore portability.

Deletion safety

Trying to delete an owner that still has rows referencing them is blocked with a count message ("Move or reassign the 12 rows owned by Sam before deleting"). This avoids silently orphaning data.

The None option

Shared items — a joint bank account, a family car, a mortgage in both names — can be left with owner = None. They appear in the heading's main section rather than any owner sub-section, which is usually the right place for them visually.

Make it yours — Settings that affect this screen

  • Enable Owners — Settings → Display. Off by default.
  • Owners list — Settings → App Lists → Owners. Add, rename, drag-reorder, delete (only if no rows reference them).
  • Split by owner (per heading) — each Asset Heading and Liability Heading has its own split-by-owner toggle. Open the heading in Settings → App Lists → Asset Headings (or Liability Headings) to flip it. Only active when Owners is on and ≥2 owners exist.

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