# Set the accounting and questions of an expense type

> In Weplanify, give an expense type its category, its expense and counterpart accounts and VAT, and add your own questions to the entry form.

- Product: Weplanify (https://weplanify.io)
- Section: Costs & expenses
- Web page: https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types.formulaire?lang=en
- Other language: https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types.formulaire.md
- Last updated: 2026-09-29

In Weplanify, an expense type's panel ends with two folded sections: **For accounting** and **Extra questions**. Amount and date are always asked.

![The For accounting section: category, expense account, counterpart account, VAT](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fcouts%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fco-type-compta-74fc2348.webp?alt=media&token=e33af45b-a490-4759-a0d6-c747776aa0a1)

## Steps

1. In **Settings → Expense types**, open the type.
2. Unfold **For accounting**: choose the **Category**, the **Expense account** (debit), the **Counterpart account** (credit) and the **VAT**.
3. Unfold **Extra questions** to ask your own questions on entry.
4. Also set, higher up, **Ask for a quantity** (and what it counts: number of meals, kilometres…) and the **Receipt**.
5. Click **Save**.

## Good to know

- With a flat-rate amount, the quantity is asked.
- The type's VAT rate is copied onto each expense when it is entered: changing it does not affect expenses already entered.
- See also [create an expense type](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types?lang=en) and [record an expense](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.depenses?lang=en).

## Related guides

- [Create an expense type](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.types?lang=en) — In Weplanify, an expense type (fuel, meals, road tolls) decides who pays, how the amount is computed, what must be attached and who approves it.
- [Record an expense](https://weplanify.io/docs/couts.depenses?lang=en) — In Weplanify, record an expense starting from the receipt: its type, who paid, the amount, date and site concerned, then see what will happen next.