Sometimes an account doesn't belong in your numbers: an old account you never use, or a joint account someone else keeps track of. Ignoring it keeps its history but stops it counting.
Ignore an account
Find the account
Go to Accounts. For a bank, open its card to see its accounts.
Ignore it
On a computer, click the ⊘ button at the end of the account's row. On a phone, tap the account and turn on Ignore this account.
The account dims and shows Ignored.
What changes
- All its transactions leave every total, from the Overview and reports to budgets and net worth.
- New transactions that arrive in it are ignored too.
- It no longer appears in account pickers or in the Accounts filter on Transactions.
- Its transactions stay on the Transactions page, so you can still look at them.
- Nothing is deleted.
Include it again
Click ⊘ again, or choose Include again in the ⋯ menu. On a phone, tap the account and turn Ignore this account off. Its transactions count again, except any you had ignored one by one yourself, which stay ignored.
A bank's card also has buttons to ignore all its accounts that have no transactions, or to include all its ignored accounts again at once.
Ignore, mark inactive, remove or stop sharing?
Option | What it does | Good for |
|---|---|---|
Ignore | Keeps the account and its history, but none of it counts. | Accounts you want to keep but not count. |
No longer active | Marks a statement or manual account as Closed and stops statement reminders. Its history still counts. | Accounts you've closed but want in your history. |
Remove… | Deletes a statement or manual account, with or without its transactions. | Accounts you don't want at all. See removing an account. |
Choose accounts | Stops a bank connection sharing the account. | Bank accounts you don't want coming in. See choosing accounts to share. |