Bank transfers and card payments can prepare a journal from exact outgoing and incoming recorded bank legs. The workflow supports same-day, same-currency bank transfers and bank-to-card payments, after both records have been imported and confirmed.
- Open Bank transfers and card payments and choose New bank pair.
- Select the exact Outgoing recorded transaction and Incoming recorded transaction.
- Review the checked pair and proposed accounting date, enter a Pairing reason, and choose Prepare bank pair.
Preparation does not move money
This action prepares an Institution Books journal for posting. It does not send a bank transfer, pay a credit card, or instruct the bank to move funds.
Confirm the relationship using the bank and supporting payment evidence rather than matching amounts alone. Fees, currency conversion, and cross-date clearing need their own balanced journal treatment instead of this exact-pair shortcut. After preparation, inspect the pair’s state and use Post or review generated journal for the accounting step. Source versions and ledger mappings are checked again when posting, so a successful preview is not a guarantee that later changed evidence can be posted without another review.
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