Overview

 

An account is used to contain all data imported, stored, and used by Bank Reconciliation or Bank Positive Pay.  Using an account organizes data around a logical point (for example, payroll records into an account called "Payroll") and keeps it separate from the data from other accounts.

 

Why not use the Sample account?

 

Bank Reconciliation and Bank Positive Pay come with a built-in account, Sample, which is used solely to demonstrate use of the system. You should NEVER use the Sample account for your company's account as it resets each time the program is started. This means that every time the program runs, the Sample account has no data associated with it. You should create an account and always use it for your data.

 

Valid Account Names

 

You should give your accounts names that make sense in the context of the data.  For example, call the account "Payroll" for payroll data. Calling it "Data Set A" is unintuitive and is likely to cause at best confusion and at worst, erroneous imports.

 

There are only a few rules for account names.

1.  They can only contain letters, numbers and the underscore, no special characters or spaces.

2.  Do not start an account name with a number.

3.  Must be unique (cannot have multiple accounts named Payroll, for obvious reasons).

4.  You are allowed up to 255 characters for the name, but for practical reasons related to your use and to internal

storage, you should keep the name under 20 characters.

 

 

To learn how to create the account see Creating an account

To use a previously created account see Switching accounts

To delete an account, see Deleting an account