Hi Jlo31,
Thank you for contacting the Community.
You are right, when you create an invoice on Self Employed this will not post to your income/expenses as it is there so you can sent a copy to your customers.
Transactions will be added to your income/expenses when they are added from the Transactions tab. This is will be either a connection to your bank or by a file upload.
Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with. :)
