The payout baseline: "Payouts through Nexxus began X"

Nexxus imports your full ledger history so reports and occupancy are real. But you already paid your owners for that history through your previous system, and those payments weren't Nexxus runs. The baseline is the line that says:

"All rent applied before this date was settled in your previous system."

• Before the baseline: closed. That rent never appears in a Nexxus payout run again.
• After the baseline: Nexxus runs own the money.

When does it freeze?

The moment you approve your first payout run. It freezes at that run's window start, with that run's basis (cash or advance). Until then, each month's draft is a self-contained preview and there's nothing to corrupt. Recompute drafts, flip the basis and page between months freely. Before that first approval, the Payouts page treats months that ended before your first import as previous-system history.

Starting payouts at a later month

At your first Nexxus payout, if earlier months still have draft payouts, approving a later month asks the account's owner-admin Start Nexxus payouts on [date]? instead of sending them to Reset payouts (other teammates keep the "approve the earliest month first" message). Start payouts here removes the draft payouts of every earlier month (every owner's, off-cycle runs included; no money moved), including any manual lines or adjustments you entered on them, approves this payout and freezes the baseline at its window start, so everything before that date counts as paid in your previous system and never pays through Nexxus. The dialog says how many of those drafts hold entries of yours, and which earlier run to approve first if you would rather pay those months through Nexxus. Cancel changes nothing. Once a payout has been approved, approve the earliest month first instead. To undo before any money moves, discard that payout under Settings → Stripe Connect → Discard test payouts / reset payouts: the baseline un-freezes when no approved or sent run remains, and the earlier months' drafts are recalculated when you open them; manual lines and adjustments you had entered on them do not come back.

Looking never moves it

Viewing or recalculating a draft never moves the baseline. Once it's frozen, paging back to an earlier month shows your imported payment history (or nothing), never fresh payouts. The rule in the engine: looking at a report must never change the books. Off-cycle runs and manual lines can't be created on or before the baseline either.

Where can I see it?

It's printed under the run name on Payouts: "Payouts through Nexxus began [date] — earlier rent is treated as settled in your previous system." It also shows, with its basis, in the Discard test payouts / reset payouts card under Settings → Stripe Connect.

Owners paid ahead of the baseline

The baseline is one date for the whole company. If your old system paid some owners past it (an "August Rent" payment sent before August's money arrived, or a lease prepaid to the owner up front), Nexxus holds that money out owner by owner. See Settled outside Nexxus.

Starting over before your first real payout

Testing payouts before cutover? The Discard test payouts / reset payouts card under Settings → Stripe Connect is available to the account's owner-admin:

• Discard… (type DISCARD) removes one approved or sent run completely. The baseline un-freezes once no approved or sent run remains.
• Reset payouts… (type RESET) removes every run, drafts included, and clears the baseline. Your next first approval freezes it afresh.

Neither one reverses anything at Stripe or your bank; they only remove Nexxus's records. Imported owner-payment history isn't touched. Runs that moved real money through Stripe, or are still in flight, can never be discarded. Undoing an import also discards payout runs that sit on its leases (see Trusting an import).

One rare exception

Approving a run whose window starts before the frozen baseline moves the baseline back to that window's start. By approving, you're saying Nexxus (not your old system) paid that period. In practice this only comes up in unusual cases such as a changed payout day, because months before the baseline show history, not drafts.