Financing
You can schedule a source's payments, and you know that installments are managed inside the Set Cash Flow Rule dialog.
A fund that pays 40 / 40 / 20 is one source and three installments.
The **Installment** button needs one — *A source is needed to add an installment*. Selecting a country, a group or an existing installment leaves it greyed out.
Click **Installment**. It appears beneath the source. Give it a name that says which payment it is — *On signature*, *Start of shoot*, *Final accounts*.
An installment has a **name**, an **amount**, a **currency**, a **status** and a **cash-flow rule**. That is the entire list — there is no details panel on an installment, so no company, effect, tax, tag, note or attachment.
The amount is a share of the source's money, not an addition to it — see [what installments are for](/kb/article/what-installments-are-for).
The cash-flow rule is the point of the exercise. **Once a source has installments, only the installments' rules are read** — the source's own rule is ignored. A source split into three unscheduled installments therefore shows nothing received even if it was fully paid last year.
**This is the one thing to know about installments, and it surprises everybody.**
Select an installment, press **Delete**, and you do not get a confirmation — you get the **Set Cash Flow Rule** dialog for that source.
That is deliberate. Installments are managed *inside* that dialog: it is where they are added, renamed, given their schedule and removed. It is also the only route to an installment's own cash-flow rule.
So to remove an installment: press Delete to open the dialog, then delete the installment from the installments list inside it.
Once you know it, the design reads sensibly — everything about an installment except its existence is a scheduling question, and scheduling lives in one place — see [set a cash flow rule on a source](/kb/article/set-a-cashflow-rule-on-a-source).
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