The Banking area is where you manage transactions related to your bank accounts. This includes money you spend and receive, and payments to suppliers and customers.

Bring your bank transactions into MYOB Essentials

Bank feeds and importing bank statements

The best way to work with bank transactions is to import them automatically using bank feeds, or by manually uploading your electronic bank statements. This lets you allocate bank transactions directly to MYOB Essentials accounts, or match them to transactions you've already entered, saving you lots of time on data entry.

• Automatically, using bank feeds. See Bank feeds.
• Manually, by importing bank or credit card statements. See Bank statements.

Manually entering bank transactions

If you don't want to import your bank transactions, you can also manually enter the money you spend and receive, and manually record payments for your invoices and expenses. You can then reconcile these transactions against your bank statement at the end of the month.

See Entering bank transactions manually.

Work with your bank transactions

When you've imported your bank transactions, all you need to do is tell MYOB Essentials what to do with them.

Matching bank transactions

If a bank transaction is a payment for an invoice or expense you've entered in MYOB Essentials, just match it to the invoice or expense. In some cases, MYOB Essentials will automatically match your transactions. See Matching bank transactions.

Allocating transactions

Otherwise, if you haven't already entered an MYOB Essentials transaction that matches the bank transaction, simply allocate it to one of your MYOB Essentials accounts. See Allocating bank transactions.

You can set up MYOB Essentials to automatically allocate transactions based on the transaction description or other features. See Using allocation rules.