diff --git a/client b/client
index 455e109f..42f163be 160000
--- a/client
+++ b/client
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 455e109f476770d04966802e8272a8bc606e864b
+Subproject commit 42f163beaec0c66337487698542924e02f5172b3
diff --git a/server b/server
index 03a8e188..8d8f1538 160000
--- a/server
+++ b/server
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 03a8e1887af639bbc582e5583eb72d2967558a88
+Subproject commit 8d8f1538635343768000bbca8e9f08000ad1d008
diff --git a/web/src/schema/mod.rs b/web/src/schema/mod.rs
index aaec6a94..ab62c4aa 100644
--- a/web/src/schema/mod.rs
+++ b/web/src/schema/mod.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ use crate::definitions::table_definition::{
 /// The compound type that posts a row to the profile's books.
 pub(crate) const ACCOUNTING_FIELD_TYPE: &str = "accounting";
 
+/// The public text path for a row in the profile's account catalogue.
+pub(crate) const ACCOUNT_FIELD_TYPE: &str = "account";
+
 /// The compound type that moves a balance between two accounting periods.
 pub(crate) const ACCOUNTING_TRANSFER_FIELD_TYPE: &str = "accounting_transfer";
 
@@ -41,7 +44,11 @@ pub(crate) const ACCOUNTING_TRANSFER_FIELD_TYPE: &str = "accounting_transfer";
 /// Both post to a profile's books, and a global table belongs to every profile
 /// at once — there is no one set of books for it to post to, so the server
 /// refuses the pair outright rather than picking a profile for them.
-const PROFILE_ONLY_TYPES: [&str; 2] = [ACCOUNTING_FIELD_TYPE, ACCOUNTING_TRANSFER_FIELD_TYPE];
+const PROFILE_ONLY_TYPES: [&str; 3] = [
+    ACCOUNT_FIELD_TYPE,
+    ACCOUNTING_FIELD_TYPE,
+    ACCOUNTING_TRANSFER_FIELD_TYPE,
+];
 
 /// The profile's chart of accounts. A row reaches it through an ACCOUNTING
 /// definition row, never through a link declared by hand.
@@ -51,6 +58,7 @@ const TYPE_DISPLAY_ORDER: &[&str] = &[
     "text",
     "boolean",
     "money",
+    "account",
     "accounting",
     "accounting_transfer",
     "int",
@@ -154,7 +162,7 @@ impl ColumnCatalog {
     /// the creation-only types: they bring schema-managed companion columns
     /// that cannot be bolted onto a table that already exists.
     ///
-    /// `global` drops the two types that post to a profile's books, which a
+    /// `global` drops the profile accounting types, which a
     /// table shared by every profile has no single one of.
     pub(crate) fn offered_types(&self, creating_table: bool, global: bool) -> Vec<String> {
         let mut offered = Vec::new();
@@ -1615,6 +1623,11 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
     /// the types a client may not declare as well as the ones it may.
     pub(crate) fn catalog() -> ColumnCatalog {
         ColumnCatalog::new(vec![
+            ColumnType {
+                sql_type: "BIGINT".to_string(),
+                creation_only: true,
+                ..declarable("account")
+            },
             ColumnType {
                 requires_currency: true,
                 // The companions the server reports with the type, in the
@@ -1730,6 +1743,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
         let offered = draft().offered_types();
 
         assert!(offered.contains(&"numeric".to_string()));
+        assert!(offered.contains(&"account".to_string()));
         assert!(offered.contains(&"accounting_transfer".to_string()));
         assert!(offered.contains(&"decimal".to_string()));
         // Families are one choice, resolved by a follow-up field.
@@ -1752,6 +1766,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
 
         assert!(!appendable.contains(&"accounting".to_string()));
         assert!(!appendable.contains(&"accounting_transfer".to_string()));
+        assert!(!appendable.contains(&"account".to_string()));
         assert!(appendable.contains(&"money".to_string()));
     }
 
@@ -1849,7 +1864,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn an_append_panel_refuses_a_creation_only_column() {
-        for field_type in ["accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
+        for field_type in ["account", "accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
             let mut draft = ColumnDraft::for_append(catalog());
             draft.type_input = field_type.to_string();
             assert!(draft.add_from_inputs(crate::i18n::Locale::default()).is_err());
@@ -1935,7 +1950,7 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
     /// type's name and there is nothing to index.
     #[test]
     fn a_compound_column_is_named_after_its_type_and_never_indexed() {
-        for field_type in ["accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
+        for field_type in ["account", "accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
             let mut draft = draft();
             draft.name_input = "whatever".to_string();
             draft.type_input = field_type.to_string();
@@ -2262,9 +2277,10 @@ pub(crate) mod tests {
         let offered = draft.offered_types();
         assert!(!offered.contains(&"accounting".to_string()));
         assert!(!offered.contains(&"accounting_transfer".to_string()));
+        assert!(!offered.contains(&"account".to_string()));
         assert!(offered.contains(&"money".to_string()));
 
-        for field_type in ["accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
+        for field_type in ["account", "accounting", "accounting_transfer"] {
             let mut draft = draft.clone();
             draft.type_input = field_type.to_string();
             let error = draft.add_from_inputs(crate::i18n::Locale::default()).unwrap_err();