Bank and cash accounts¶

You can manage as many bank or cash accounts as needed on your database. Configuring them correctly allows you to have all your banking data up-to-date and ready for reconciliation with your journal entries.

In Odoo Accounting, each bank account has a dedicated journal set to post all entries in a dedicated account. Both the journal and the account are automatically created and configured whenever you add a bank account.

Note

Cash journals and accounts must be configured manually.

Bank and cash journals are displayed by default on the Accounting Dashboard in the form of cards which include action buttons.

screenshot: accounting-bank-dashboard-card

menu: Accounting ‣ Dashboard
shows: The Accounting Dashboard with one bank journal card ("Bank") showing the stacked :guilabel:`Transactions`, :guilabel:`Reconcile 12 Items` and :guilabel:`Sync now` buttons on the left, and the :guilabel:`Balance`, :guilabel:`Last Statement` figures, the :guilabel:`5 to check` link and the circular reconciliation-progress indicator on the right.
highlight: The bank journal card (red frame).
data: Demo company "YourCompany HU"; a bank journal with unreconciled statement lines and a non-zero balance.
module: account, account_reconcile_oca, eyssen_accountant, account_bank_sync
notes: English UI, light theme, 1440px width, crop to the card.

Manage bank and cash accounts¶

Create a bank account¶

To add a bank account, go to the Accounting Dashboard and, on the card of a bank journal that has no bank account yet, click Bank Setup. Fill out the bank information (account number, bank, and the journal the account is linked to) and click Create.

Note

Odoo automatically detects the bank account type (e.g., IBAN) and enables some features accordingly.
A default bank journal is available and can be used to configure your bank account by going to Accounting ‣ Configuration ‣ Accounting: Journals ‣ Bank. Open it and edit the different fields to match your bank account information.
A bank account can also be added from Accounting ‣ Configuration ‣ Banks ‣ Add a Bank Account.

Connect a bank for automatic synchronization¶

Instead of importing statements by hand, you can let Odoo fetch the transactions from your bank or from a payment institution. Synchronization is provided by the Online Bank Sync modules, which connect a journal to a remote account and book the incoming transactions as bank statement lines.

Import statement files¶

If your bank is not covered by a synchronization provider, upload the statement files your bank produces. Odoo reads the common exchange formats, and dedicated modules read the proprietary export formats of several Hungarian banks.