Track your expenses in the Dominican Republic, in Dominican pesos

The Dominican peso in Kesef

If your phone's region is the Dominican Republic, Kesef suggests the Dominican peso when you install it, written with $ right before the number ($1,250.50). If you dictate "pesos" without saying which, they're your account's. In Spanish the app writes the dollar as US$; in English both currencies show as $, so check the currency code when you mix them.

If you pay for something in dollars, that expense stays in dollars and Kesef adds it to your totals in Dominican pesos at the day's international rate.

Apple Pay in the Dominican Republic: payments that log themselves

Apple lists the Dominican Republic among the countries with Apple Pay, so with Kesef Pro, on an iPhone running iOS 17 or later, every Apple Pay payment logs itself with its amount and merchant. You turn it on once from the Shortcuts app. Mercado Pago isn't offered in the Dominican Republic: whatever you pay by transfer or in cash, dictate it or log it with a receipt photo.

The doble sueldo, before December 20

In the Dominican Republic the Christmas salary, the doble sueldo, is one twelfth of what you earned during the year, and the Labor Code requires it to be paid by December 20 at the latest. It isn't subject to income tax.

In Kesef it goes in as one more December income. So it doesn't dissolve into gifts and nights out, set up a holiday budget and a January goal before it arrives: the budget tells you how much you can spend per day until the end of the month.

Examples in the Dominican Republic, in Dominican pesos

• ExampleThe colmado"Colmado, 650", said on the way out, leaves a $650 expense in Dominican pesos, your account's currency.
• ExampleA weekend in Samaná for fourYou pay $8,000 for the house in a group of four: each person owes $2,000, and Kesef simplifies debts so fewer transfers are needed.
• ExampleA fridge in 12 installmentsA $24,000 fridge on 12 card installments is logged once; Kesef spreads $2,000 a month over a year.