> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kehillahq.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Funds > The categories your donations are recorded against. A **fund** is a category for donations: General, Building, Kiddush, Tzedakah, Rabbi's Discretionary, whatever your congregation actually keeps track of. Every donation is recorded against a fund, so you can answer "how much has the building fund raised this year" without going through the ledger by hand. ## Creating funds Manage them from the **Funds** page in the Finances section. Give each one a clear name and, if it helps, a short description. Names must be unique, and the check ignores capitalisation, so you cannot end up with "Building" and "building" as two separate funds collecting the same money. The Funds page listing the congregation's donation funds Start with fewer funds than you think you need. Five or six that everyone understands work better than twenty that nobody can tell apart. You can always add one when a real need appears. ## Archiving a fund When a fund is finished, for example a capital campaign that has closed, archive it rather than deleting it. Archiving takes it out of the lists people choose from when recording new donations, while keeping every historical donation intact and still attributed to it. Your past years still add up correctly. Deleting a fund that has donations against it would leave those donations uncategorised, which is why archiving is the right move almost every time. ## Funds and dues are different Worth being clear about, because it is the most common mix-up. **Dues** are what a household committed for the year. A dues payment is linked to that commitment. **A fund donation** is a gift, linked to a fund. A payment is one or the other. If a family sends a single cheque covering their dues and a building fund gift, record it as **two contributions**: one linked to their dues commitment, one linked to the building fund. That way both figures are right. Recording a dues payment against a fund instead of the commitment is the most common cause of "this family says they paid but the page shows them owing". Check the ledger entry and see what it is linked to. ## Funds in the To file inbox When a payment arrives from a connected payment processor, part of filing it is saying which fund it belongs to, or that it is dues. You can create a fund at that moment, without leaving the inbox, so an unexpected donation to something new does not force you to go elsewhere first. See [The To file inbox](/finances/to-file).