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What Data Is Available After Accounts Are Linked

Written by Taylor Stewart
Updated this week

Once a client links their financial accounts, Kerdora pulls in two types of data automatically: account balances and investment holdings. This data syncs on an ongoing basis, flows into your planning modules, and stays up to date without manual entry.

Here's exactly what you get and where to find it.

Account Balances

Every linked account gets its current balance synced automatically. This applies to all account types: bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement accounts, credit cards, and loans.

Balances update whenever the institution reports a change, and you can also trigger a manual refresh anytime from the Linked Accounts section in Profile > Accounts.

Investment Holdings

For investment and retirement accounts, you also get the full holdings breakdown:

  • Security name and ticker

  • Number of shares

  • Current price per share

  • Total market value

This data refreshes automatically alongside balances. Each sync fully replaces the holdings data with the latest from the institution, so you're always looking at current positions.

Holdings flow directly into the Investments planning tab, where you can view asset class breakdowns, expense ratios, dividend yields, sector exposure, and regional allocation across the portfolio.

Where Linked Account Data Shows Up

  • Profile > Accounts — The Linked Accounts section shows all connected institutions with their accounts, balances, account masks (last 4 digits), and sync status.

  • Planning > Investments — Holdings from linked investment and retirement accounts appear here with full portfolio analysis.

  • Planning > Goals — Linked account balances are included when you assign accounts to goals, just like manually entered accounts.

  • Asset and liability detail views — Open any linked account to see the institution name, account number, and (for investment accounts) the holdings breakdown.

How Often Data Updates

Linked account data updates in two ways:

  • Automatically — The institution sends updates when account data changes. You don't need to do anything.

  • Manual refresh — Click the refresh button on any institution card in the Linked Accounts section to pull the latest data immediately.

If a connection hasn't synced in 48 hours, it shows a Stale status badge so you know the data may not be current. You may also see Error or Pending Review badges if the connection needs attention.

What You Can and Can't Edit

Locked (auto-synced):

  • Account balances — the balance field is disabled on linked accounts to prevent conflicts with synced data

  • Investment holdings — fully replaced on each sync

Still editable:

  • Account name

  • Institution name and account number

  • Notes and other custom fields

  • Goal assignments

  • Account categorization

If you need full control over a balance again, you can unlink an individual account. This converts it back to a manual account without deleting any data. The balance field becomes editable again, and the account stays on the balance sheet.

How Linked Accounts Look Different

Linked accounts have a few visual differences from manually entered ones:

  • Institution cards at the top of the Linked Accounts section group accounts by institution and show connection status

  • Sync timestamps show when data was last refreshed (e.g., "Synced 5m ago")

  • Status badges indicate the connection health: Connected, Stale, Error, or Pending Review

  • Account masks display the last 4 digits of the account number

  • Balance field is disabled — you'll see the synced balance but can't manually override it

  • Unlink button appears next to each linked account if you want to disconnect it

Coming Soon: Spending Transactions

Spending transaction data from linked accounts is coming very soon. Once available, you'll be able to see transaction-level detail for linked accounts directly inside Kerdora. We'll update this article when that's live.

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