Transactions

Transactions are the primary mechanism for recording financial activity in Infrarails.

Every transaction belongs to a ledger and contains one or more accounting entries that describe its financial effects.

Transactions provide a structured record of financial movements, their processing status, and associated metadata.

Understanding transactions

A transaction represents a financial operation performed within a ledger.

Examples include:

Transferring funds between accounts.
Issuing value into the accounting system.
Retiring value from the accounting system.
Recording internal financial movements.

A transaction connects the business operation to the corresponding accounting records.

Ledger
  |
  +-- Transaction
        |
        +-- Transaction Metadata
        |
        +-- Transaction Status
        |
        +-- Accounting Entries
              |
              +-- Debit
              |
              +-- Credit

Transaction types

Infrarails supports three core ledger transaction types.

Type	Description
`TRANSFER`	Moves value between ledger accounts
`ISSUE`	Introduces value into the ledger accounting model
`RETIRE`	Removes value from the ledger accounting model

TRANSFER

A transfer records a financial movement between accounts.

For example, transferring €100.00 from Account A to Account B:

Account	Direction	Amount
Account A	Debit	€100.00
Account B	Credit	€100.00