Confirm your dividends

When Metrifly detects a dividend for a holding you owned at the ex-date, it creates an unconfirmed event. Confirming it tells Metrifly the amount you actually received, so the payment counts towards your income, yield, and tax. By the end of this, your dividends will be confirmed and your figures accurate.

Dividend statuses

Status	What it means
Announced	Declared, but the ex-date hasn’t passed — nothing to do yet
Unconfirmed	Detected and waiting for your confirmation
Paid	Confirmed and counting in your income and tax

Where to find unconfirmed dividends

They appear in two places:

• The Dividends tab on a holding’s detail page, in its Payment History table — grouped by financial year, with a Confirmed X/Y count at the top.
• The Performance → Dividends page, in the Income breakdown table — across every holding in the portfolio, with a Confirm all button.
• The Tax Dashboard, which flags them before you finalise tax — see Use your tax dashboard.

Confirm a single dividend

Find the dividend and click the checkmark icon (Mark as confirmed) on its row to open the confirm dialog. After a dividend is confirmed, that same checkmark becomes the undo toggle — click it again to reset back to unconfirmed.

The dialog shows:

Field	Editable?	Notes
Ex-Date	No	The ownership cut-off date
Currency	No	The currency the dividend was paid in
Total Amount Received	Yes	The total cash you received — pre-filled with the detected estimate
Franking Credits	Yes (optional)	Australian franking credits — leave blank if none
Payment method	Yes	Cash or DRP (reinvest as shares) — defaults to DRP if the holding is enrolled in dividend reinvestment
Shares Allotted	Required if DRP	The number of new shares the reinvestment bought
Issue Price	Optional, DRP only	The price per share the registry issued at — used for the acquisition’s cost base
Notes	Yes (optional)	A free-text note for yourself

You enter the total you received, not a per-share rate. Click Confirm Dividend to save. See Record reinvested dividends (DRP) for the full DRP walkthrough, including the shares/issue-price mismatch warning.

Tip

Check Total Amount Received against your broker statement first. The detected figure is an estimate from your share count at the ex-date and may differ slightly from the cash you actually got.

Confirm all at once

On the Performance → Dividends page, Confirm all (N) confirms every unconfirmed dividend in the list as cash, using the detected estimates, without opening each dialog.

Dividends belonging to a holding enrolled in DRP are skipped — they need Shares Allotted before they can be confirmed, so bulk confirm can’t fill that in for you. The result reports both counts:

Confirm the skipped ones individually instead, choosing Payment method: DRP and entering the shares allotted.

Edit before confirming

Open the row’s More actions (3-dot) menu and choose Edit to change the Total Amount Received, Franking Credits, or Notes before confirming. Saving updates the dividend but leaves it unconfirmed — you still need to confirm it afterwards.

Dismiss or undo

• Dismiss — if a detected dividend doesn’t apply (a duplicate, or one you didn’t receive), open the row’s More actions (3-dot) menu and choose Delete.
• Undo — click the confirmed checkmark icon again to move a dividend back to unconfirmed. If it was confirmed as DRP, the paired reinvestment (the extra shares) is removed too — see Reset a DRP dividend to unconfirmed.

Caution

Deleting a dividend removes the event entirely. If you delete one by mistake, re-add it via Add a trade manually as a DIVIDEND transaction.

Franking credits

Australian companies often pay franked dividends, where tax has already been paid at the company level. When confirming one, enter the franking credit amount from your dividend statement in the Franking Credits field — it flows through to your taxable income report. Leave it blank if the dividend is unfranked.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Fix
No confirm icon on a row	The dividend may still be Announced — confirmation opens once its ex-date passes.
The detected amount is wrong	Use Edit and correct Total Amount Received before confirming.
You confirmed the wrong one	Click the confirmed checkmark icon again to unconfirm it, then use More actions to edit or delete it.
It should have been reinvested	Choose Payment method: DRP and enter Shares Allotted — see Record reinvested dividends (DRP).
Confirm all left one unconfirmed	That holding is enrolled in DRP — bulk confirm skips it so you can allot shares individually.
The Tax Dashboard still flags dividends	Confirm every dividend on each affected holding, or use Confirm all.

Related articles

• How dividend tracking works
• Record reinvested dividends (DRP)
• Run your taxable income report