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Account reconciliation and bookkeeping. Annoying! Simply with a single mouse click? FrachtPilot!
Sebastian Terlunen
The Account reconciliation is important for successful bookkeeping! When the account balance Yours bank accounts Does not match your accounting, the decisive overview for your retail or delivery service is missing: The overview of your deposits and withdrawals. Give an overview of the liquidity of your direct marketing.
Common procedure usually used in bookkeeping in practice: Many retailers Do the accounting reconciliation by hand. Means: laborious bank statements Type it out. However, the probability that mistakes will happen is super high. And with digitization Of course, the procedure also has nothing to do:
Faster, less error-prone and cost-saving: You use a accounting software or software with functions for your accounting, for Account reconciliation or for account reconciliation. Account reconciliation with your bank account will then be done automatically.
So why complicated when it's also automatic? The digital and automatic reconciliation of deposits and withdrawals to your bank or postal account with the financial accounting is easily possible today.
In general, the reconciliation process checks whether your existing documents (receipts, invoices, etc.) There are money movements in your account
Therefore, two must data sources be reconciled with each other. On the one hand, accounting data. On the other hand, your money movements in your bank account. This reconciliation therefore shows whether the values entered in accounting or transactions are correct and complete. Say whether your receipts completely in your account as input- and Outgoing payments are recorded and therefore the relevant account movements are fully absorbed.
Maybe you're transferring with your food retail or your Bread delivery service The account movements are still laborious from a excel-List in the accounting program. Or even worse: You even use printed account statements and type out each position individually.
Reconciliation works most efficiently when the accounting software works directly with the e-banking works together.
But even here, not everything that glitters is gold. Perhaps the software provides excellent support for Bank X, but automatic reconciliation with other banks is not possible. It's the same with certain newer cloud accounting solutions. Or the provider is still in the process of integrating one bank after another — depending on the bank details, a lot of patience is required until you can finally reconcile easily. But why wait for each bank individually when there is a solution that is supported by almost all banks.
The solution is CAMT export. CAMT is a standardized and generally recognized export format. Compatible with (almost) all banks. The CAMT file is therefore a standardized digital export of all deposits and withdrawals from your bank account. In other words: your electronic account statement.
Some accounting solutions today offer the option of comparing the electronic account statements of your bank account with all transactions with the accounting software. But not all providers support you with suitable allocation suggestions and efficiency-increasing automatic functions.
When your bank CAMT file Export supported, you can immediately enjoy the automatic reconciliation of your bank account with FrachtPilot without any problems. Because: FrachtPilot supports as innovative software The CAMTexportation files and can process CAMT files automatically!
How It's simple: The electronic account statement can be found at Freight pilot Import directly with one click. FrachtPilot automatically suggests matching bookings for allocation. And if an account movement cannot be attributed, you can quickly create a new booking. So spares You do unnecessary working time and avoid costly mistakes.
And the best part: Thanks to the automatic reconciliation, you can always see whether your deposits to your bank account match the accounting and outstanding invoices. This means that you always know how liquid your delivery service or retail is.
The automatic reconciliation of incoming payments to your bank account with your invoices is invaluable for your direct marketing. Regardless of whether Delivery service or retailers. For example for wine, strawberries or asparagus. So you have yours liquidity Always in full view.
Of course, therefore, Freight pilot also the automatic Account reconciliation On board. But there's more to it than that. A lot more!
FrachtPilot supports you with all tasks, which at your regional direct marketing accrue. Not only in accounting, but also ;-). From online store for pre-orders, via reckoning and inventory management up to Route planning and Parcel delivery.
Just get in touch with us and we'll be happy to advise you on how FrachtPilot can support you in your business Of course she is guidance free of charge and without obligation.
In addition, in an equally free and non-binding Test period Put the FrachtPilot through its paces for 30 days!
