Bank Reconciliation
Match your bank book with the bank statement by ticking entries or uploading the statement, add what is missing and freeze finished periods.
- 1.Bank reconciliation at a glanceWhat bank reconciliation is, how the Bank Reconciliation page is laid out, what Book Balance, Cleared as per Books, Statement Balance and Difference mean, and the two ways to reconcile.
- 2.Reconcile by ticking entriesReconcile a bank book against a paper or PDF statement by entering the bank date of each entry, ticking it, and confirming once the Difference is zero.
- 3.Upload a bank statementUpload an Excel or CSV bank statement, check how SocietyBee reads the columns, dates and balances, import it, and manage earlier uploads including how to undo one.
- 4.Review the matches and finishApprove the statement lines that matched your entries, create receipts and vouchers for the ones that did not, ignore the rest, and complete the reconciliation.
- 5.Add a missing voucherPost an entry that is on the bank statement but missing from your books, directly from the Bank Reconciliation page, as a general voucher or a contra voucher, with or without a bank date.
- 6.Reconciled transactions and historySee the entries already reconciled, search them, correct a bank date, undo a reconciliation, and read the Past Reconciliations list of every confirmed session.
- 7.Freeze a period and locked periodsLock a date range of a bank book, or of the whole society, so nothing can be posted, edited, deleted or re-dated in it, and see or release your locks.