Bank accounts are a special type of GL account in the system.

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Setting up Bank Accounts

Bank Accounts require a GL Account first, then define the bank details (BSB and Account number and related cards) on Host Company

For foreign currency bank accounts see Foreign Currency Transactions (fx)#BankAccounts

Configure the definition of the bank branches

Admin > Financials > 

Open

If you already have GL accounts setup as bank accounts

Open

Setting up a new GL account as a Bank Account on Host Company

Reference the account in the bank account configuration - see Chart of Accounts to add GL accounts

Setup a Credit Account as a Liability - Credit accounts are a liability for your business

Assigning Credit cards on Accounts to people and Assets

Then you can assign cards that operate on the account to people (expenses) or Assets

Trade Finance Bank Account

Discussion

Trade financing is when the bank will forward some funds to you for a % of invoices you have sent out to customers so you can have the cash earlier and not have to wait to collect it.

The account is normally effectively a loan.

The bank normally expects that all the debtors they are trade financing will be instructed to pay into the trade finance account.  This helps minimise the loan and also keep track of the performance of individual debtors.

Bank Account Setup as Trade Finance Account

Note - only one bank account can be the Trade Finance account at a time

Bank Account on Invoices

When a bank account is flagged as "Trade Finance" then invoices sent from the system or viewed online will have the following bank details:

• Debtors flagged as "Exclude from Trade Financing" - will show the bank account with Default set to "Debtor" or "Both"

• All other debtors will show the Bank account with the special type "Trade Finance"

Turn on the flag for debtors

Set on a debtor

Regular Providing invoices to the Bank

The bank will request all invoices to be sent to them regularly - use the Trade Finance Screen for this - then export to xls to send to the bank

Aging summary by Due Date for NON trade finance debtors

The aging summary can exclude Trade Finance Debtors

OLD Bank Reconcilation - Enter an opening balance for the bank account

An opening balance is simply a journal - one side is the current bank (or credit account) balance - the other side is normally formation assets or an account chosen by your accountant

 Any journal to a bank account once reconciled cannot be changed.  It is recommended therefore that opening balance journals NOT include a line for the bank account - but this is done as a separate journal so the opening balance journal can later be changed if required.

Fuel Cards

Fuel cards are a Merchant Account - ie not a bank account - but a company you need to pay.

Create the Merchant Account on the Host company

Link the Fuel Card to the Asset

When the Fuel Statement Arrives

Note if you have Branches and Departments defined they will default from the Asset.

And the Asset will be linked to the $ and L from the line on the creditor Invoice

Credit Card Payments using Credit Card Terminals

When a bank provides Credit Card Terminals for processing transactions (card not present)

Setup the bank Account Details

Select Payment Method EFTPOS (terminal) - then machine.  Bank will default from terminal

Payment Batch from EFTPOS Terminal Transactions (per terminal)

1. When a payment is created

   1. if no batch exists for the Terminal / date / cutoff time combination - a new one is created

   2. if a batch exists then the payment will be added to it

The batch is cleared in the bank account using the normal method - see Bank Accounts - Creating and Managing#ReconcilingCreditCardBatchesBatches

Credit Card Payments using credit card gateways like Eway

Register

1. When you register with a credit card gateway - they will ask you for your bank details - and the bank will provide you with a merchant number that gets passed with the transaction information to identify the bank accounts to be impacted by the credit card transaction.

2. When our system takes a credit card payment - the system passes your merchant number along with the transaction to the gateway and gets a response.  

   1. Every response is logged and you will see the result on the transaction you are actioning (sales order, booking etc).

Indicate supported credit cards to limits the options users have on payment

Indicate the credit cards you support

The eway Merchant Number to pass through

Using eWay as an example: When you register with eWay - they ask for the bank details they are to put money into.  Then they provide you with a Merchant ID number.  Place this number in the Merchant ID field for that bank account.  When the system takes a credit card transaction it looks for the bank account to use and the merchant ID to pass to eWay.  

Payments are batched by eway

Multiple payments per day are deposited in your bank - not every transaction

1. eWay will not send you a transaction for every individual transaction - they will instead send a lump of money 2x per day based on your overall transactions.  

   1. So we need to group together all the transactions eWay has told us have been successful into a single $ value that we expect to see go into your bank.  

   2. For this reason we batch together all credit card transactions into a "Batch" using the cut-off times told to us by eWay.

Using Tyro Credit Card (Card Present) Terminals in POS

Setup the bank account

The bank account needs to be

1. The default bank account for Both (Debtor and Creditor)

2. Have the Merchant ID (MID) set for Tyro

SaaSplications Setup for Tyro Terminals

Setup and pair with the terminal

• Pairing: System > System Settings (Advanced TAB) > Card Present EFTPOS provider (Tyro) (Tyro settings button appears) > Tyro Settings

  • IF this machine previously had a different terminal paired - then use the button: clear browser cache.

  • Enter the MID And TID in the machine (this will be validated)

  • Set Production / Test mode or simulator mode (affects the tyro account impacted)

  • Pair Terminal button

  • Request Terminal Info

• Integrated Receipts - Ticked if SaaSplications is printing the receipts (SaaSplications POS prints receipts so choose this when using POS)

• Print Merchant Copy receipts - used when a tyro machine is not connected to a POS - if using POS then = Unticked

• Integrated Surcharge - if your Tyro account has been setup to take a surcharge or not

Comparing system journals with Tyro Transaction history

Tyro provides settlement files - all transactions taken by a terminal for a date.

1. Tyro settles end of day every day in a single account for every MID across all TID’s so this is the expected amount into your bank (less fees if you are not using surcharging)

2. Tyro closes the settlement at midnight every night

   1. Settlement files are therefore not available until the next day

SaaSplications provides a way to

1. capture the settlement files

2. compare them with the system created journals

3. Why ? so you can find examples where a user may have used the tyro machine and not put the sale through the POS

SaaSplications Journal Batch for Tyro is daily

1. SaaSplications groups Tyro journals into a batch for the day (per MID)

   1. Used for bank reconciliation

   2. A new batch is created at the first transaction after midnight

Tyro settlement files

Used to compare what SaaSplications recorded VS what Tyro recorded

1. Each file must be requested by TID from Tyro

2. The file is not available until after midnight - hence not available until the next day

3. The file can only be requested by the terminal used

When a Terminal is used every day

The file is requested “silently” by the system for you each day….

1. When you open the POS AND have a paired Tyro Machine on your computer

   1. SaaSplications checks the if the MID paired to your machine is the MID setup on the default bank account of the host company you are accessing

      1. If it is - then SaaSplications will silently collect a reconciliation file for the previous day (if one exists) and attach it to the banking batch for that date

When a terminal has not been used for some time

When you have not used a TID for some time and need to collect missing files

1. When you open the POS AND have a paired Tyro Machine on your computer

   1. SaaSplications checks the if the MID paired to your machine is the MID setup on the default bank account of the host company you are accessing

      1. if it is - the POS cash count > Settlement TAB > lists dates this MID and TID did not collect settlement files

Tyro in use in the POS

During a POS transactions

2. The POS calculates the amount to be captured on the card

3. The POS talks to the Tyro software on the computer - that then talks to the Tyro Machine

4. The Tyro machine responds with the result (which may have added a surcharge)

Tyro have a couple of identifiers

• MID - this is the merchant account that the terminal will be transacting on - this corresponds to a bank account in SaaSplications (the MID is held in the Merchant ID field and identified as a Tyro merchant ID)

• TID - this is the terminal ID

The POS looks for the Tyro Software installed on the local machine

OLD Bank Reconciliation Format

Payments from/to Debtors and Payments to/from Creditors and bank accounts

When you have entered an invoice you want a payment to reference

When doing a Creditor Payment, Creditor Refund, Debtor Payment or Debtor Refund - you can select the bank account when you do the transaction - and that will place the transaction in the reconciliation screen for that bank account

When you do not want to enter an invoice - you just want to record a payment

Use "Supplier Payment (No Invoice)" or "Customer Payment (No Invoice)" to create the transaction - referencing the bank account

Cash Batches

Cash Batches are used when Cash is Collected by Sales Reps, Delivery Drivers and Bus Drivers

They count the cash in the batch as they drop it off.

Do a second count of each cash batch to confirm the amounts.

Group together multiple amounts of cash into a single bank deposit.  

Capture the cash transaction

Sales Reps, Delivery Drivers and Bus Drivers are collecting cash during a day of driving around visiting customers.  

1. The cash they collect is grouped into a batch to be counted at the end of the day.  This is known as a "Cash Batch"

2. They may also spend some of this cash as they go - to wash the car, parking or other items.  This is known as a "Spend Money" - cash was used.

3. If they purchase items using a credit card (for example a fuel card) this is not included in the daily batch and is not a spend money as no cash was spent.

Cash payments may be recorded in a number of ways by drivers

If your business manages orders

1. As a cash payment of a sales order or booking - from the sales order screen

2. As a cash payment not linked to a sales order - simply a cash collection from a debtor they visited from the debtor or in the driver portal.

If your business manages bookings

1. The bus drivers portal as they drive

2. As a cash payment for a booking in the driver portal or entered later once they have returned.

The cash payment will default to their batch for the day

Cash Counting by drivers

Count the Cash taken during a number of days - Drop at office

At the end of the day the cash needs to be counted by the driver and will include

Cash total to count = Cash collected - cash spent (Spend Money Transactions Only).

The driver will do a first count of the cash and the cash batch will move to "Counted" status - note that the counted cash may not match the expected cash. 

Then batch can then be counted by a second person and multiple batches banked in a single banking deposit.

Count the Cash taken over a number of days - Driver Deposit to the bank

If the driver is depositing the cash to the bank - the batch will be closed and a journal created to the bank for the amount deposited

Once the cash is dropped off to the office - second cash count

The office will do a second count of the cash - noting any discrepancies as an adjustment journal

Office does a second count and moves the batch to locked status

Group multiple cash counts into a single amount to deposit to the bank

Depositing cash into the bank - adding multiple amounts of cash into a total to take to the bank

After second counting a number of batches - the batches can be grouped together into a bank deposit

The batch will then have a reference on it to the journal that links it to the bank statement

How does the cash deposited appear in the OLD bank statement

Cash batches appear as a single journal line in the bank statement ( A yellow General Journal) as all the cash was deposited as a single cash amount

Reconciling the OLD bank statement

Getting ready to reconcile transactions

Reconciling the bank statement is a process of confirming each of the transactions you expect to have appeared are there and creating other transactions that you did not record in your business system.  When you tick the box in the S column you are confirming that you have seen that transaction in the bank statement.

Choose the bank account

The Reconciliation screen will then open with the last reconciled date

Put in the date of the statement that you have in front of you - this is the date you are reconciling to

Enter the Statement Balance.  The variance will populate showing how much $ transactions you have to find and tick as reconciled

Note that the transactions listed will be any transactions prior to the Reconciliation date that have not yet been reconciled. 

OLD Bank Reconcilation - Reconciling individual transactions

Next you need to look through your bank statement to find transactions to clear.  Normally you have a printed out statement and you tick off each transaction as you find it.

It can help to untick the "presented" list - this makes it easier to find the transactions you have not yet cleared.  As you clear transactions you can refresh and they will hide.

The bank reconciliation shows some transactions that are part of a credit card batch (see credit card section above in this document) - If the amount we say should be there is the same as in the bank statement you can clear these using a rightclick.

OLD Bank Reconcilation -Reconciling Credit Card Batches Batches

The bottom RHS of the screen has a list of batches.  A batch is a group of transactions.  As you can see all the individual transactions are still visible in the bank statement - this is because it is common that what we expect and what is paid to you will often be different - because of fees, bounced transactions and other reasons.  You can quickly clear all in batch using a right click if the values match.  Otherwise you will need to use the credit card statement to clear them independently.

Enter Bank Fees

This is a good time to enter any bank fees that you find when looking at your credit card gateway trading statement

Remember that this is a grid like anywhere else in the system - so you can filter the transactions (CNTRL F) or top LHS of grid for filter - it will filter using any information in the grid

OLD Bank Reconcilation - Filtering the transaction list

using letters

Filtering using numbers

OLD Bank Reconcilation -Review of past reconciliations including the PDF report

At any time you can print a preview of the reconciliation report using the print button.

When you have completed the reconciliation (Reconcile Now) button all the transactions in the system that have been marked as reconciled will be locked and cannot be changed.

To view the report for any reconciliation - the current screen will then show all the transactions for that reconciliation (locked).

To view the report use the print screen - or the link to the saved report.

This is what the report looks like

OLD Bank Reconcilation - Deleting Bank Reconcilations

1. Go to Bank Reconciliation for the bank account affected

2. You can only delete reconciliations if you have the Locked one selected - then right click on the ones to delete.

3. You can only delete the latest Closed reconciliation (and then once that has been deleted the next most recent etc).

4. Note that you may need to clear the date range on the filter to see all bank reconciliations.

5. Delete reconciliations as far back as you need to including the first reconciliation

Note - if you need to delete the first reconciliation check to make sure that the GL account does not have any transactions prior to the from date of the first reconciliation.

OLD Bank Reconcilation - Uploading the bank statement - and find the matches quickly

Why upload the bank statement?  If all your transactions are already in the system you do not need to upload the bank statement.

1. To use an upload of your bank statement to quickly create missing transactions
   
   

   1. You may pay people and not have entered a payment yet - that is ok - we make it easy to create the payments from the bank reconciliation screen

   2. Upload your bank statement - this will provide a list of all transactions you have in your bank

Then search for each transaction to find a match - or create the transaction in the system by right clicking on it.

You can start a bank fee journal from here as well - this will create a journal on the creditor you configured for the bank with the other side defaulting to using the account referenced in Symbols Config - BankFeesGLAccount 

FX bank account transfer of funds

Use the wizard to transfer funds - see Foreign Currency Transactions (fx)

Shutting Down Bank Accounts

When you are closing a bank account there are a couple of things to do in the system

Do a final reconciliation - when you get that final statement - do the last reconciliation.  The final value of the bank account statement balance should be zero.

In the GL - flag the GL account as "Disallow new entries" so it cannot be used as a bank account any more.

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