Help · Banking

Banking in SwiftlyBooks

Your bank accounts, mobile money, tills and cards as wallets, each with its balance in the books and on its statement.

Add a wallet

  1. Press Add a wallet, and choose its Kind: Bank, Mobile money, Cash or Card.
  2. Give its Name and Currency, then press Add wallet.

Match its statement

  1. Open the wallet and press Import a statement: a CSV, Excel or OFX export.
  2. Under To categorise, press Match or Confirm where the suggestion is right, or Other or Categorise to choose the account.
  3. Ask Swiftly for accounts suggests them for lines nothing else places. You confirm each.
  4. Press Reconcile, and give the statement's date and balance.

Move money

  1. Press Move money to bank the till or top up petty cash.
  2. Choose From and To and the amount sent, then press Move it.
  3. Between currencies, type what arrived too: the exchange gained or lost goes to exchange gains or losses.

Close a wallet

  1. Open the wallet and press Close wallet. It must hold nothing, with every statement line matched or categorised.
  2. It keeps its history, under Closed, and takes nothing new. Press Open again there if you need it.

Good to know

  • Each wallet has its own account on the chart, kept to its currency.
  • A wallet chosen in Settings, such as the trust account or the wallet salaries leave, stays open until another is chosen there.
  • Tick Suggest the same for lines containing as you categorise, and lines with those words get that account next time.
  • Undo takes back a line's match or category, until the line is in a reconciliation.

Related

The same help is in the app: press the ? at the top of any page.