Accounting: Banking & Reconciliation
Bank feeds, the transaction inbox, registers, and reconciliation.
How banking works
Bank and card accounts, the three ways transactions reach the books, why the registers are the ledger, and the rules that keep it clean.
Bank accounts
Add checking and savings accounts, set an opening balance the ledger agrees with, and retire an account you've closed.
Credit card accounts
Add a business credit card as an account so charges, payments, and the balance owed live in the ledger.
The Transaction Inbox
Where bank alerts, forwarded receipts, and imported statement lines wait to be approved into the books, and what each action does.
Identifying deposits
Explain a bank credit in the inbox as a customer payment, as other money, or as a deposit you already posted, so it posts to the right place.
Payee rules
Teach the inbox which vendor and expense account a payee belongs to, and let a proven rule approve on its own.
Statement import
Upload a CSV export from the bank, see which lines are already on the books, and push the rest through the inbox.
Bank rules
Conditions that categorize or exclude imported statement lines before they reach the inbox.
Registers
The Check Register, the CC Register, and the per-account register: what each shows, which one is the ledger, and how to search and export.
Editing and voiding posted transactions
Correct a posted check or card transaction in place with an audited reason, or void it with a reversal dated to the original.
Reconciling a bank account or credit card
Prove the register against the statement: start a session, clear each line, resolve the difference to zero, and finish.
Transfers between accounts
Move money between your own bank accounts, or pay a card from checking, as one entry that touches no income or expense.
Petty cash
Track the cash drawer: replenish it from the bank, record what was spent and by whom, and keep the fund at its target.