If all transactions have been imported correctly to Coinpanda, the calculated portfolio balance on the Dashboard page should match what you have in your wallets and on exchanges. If these balances don't match, it is likely that one or more transactions have not been imported or that the imported data is wrong.

It's important to understand that the calculated total balance will almost never match your actual balance 100% without doing small manual adjustments. There can be several reasons for this:

From our experience, the most likely reason is that not all transactions are imported. Many APIs do not provide all historical data, making it impossible for Coinpanda to calculate your balance 100% accurately. This can also happen with exported CSV files from exchanges.

In the article How to ensure accuracy of tax calculations, we go into more detail about what you should do in case your balances do not match. See also the article Exchange API limitations for information about known API limitations we are aware of today.

In most cases, yes. For example, if your total BTC holdings are 0.15 BTC, but the balance on Coinpanda shows 0.148 BTC, it is most likely due to a rounding error or a similar reason. This will not have a major impact on any resulting calculations.

The simplest way to do this is by adding Send/Receive transactions for the tokens or coins if you want to adjust the balance. For example, if your calculated balance shows that you own 0.148 BTC but your total holdings are 0.15 BTC, you can add a single 0.002 BTC Receive transaction. We have explained our recommended method in the article below:

However, keep in mind that this will most likely change your cost basis and capital gains calculations, so you should understand the tax implications before doing so.

As already explained, the total balance on the Dashboard page and in the PDF report is calculated based on the imported data. The only way to get the balance to match your actual holdings is: