Hi everybody!
Just a quick suggestion that would make using bank feeds significantly more beneficial than it already is (for both my business and hopefully others' too).
Many of our clients include the invoice number that they're paying in the description of their payment. Rather than having to deal with the monotonous speeds of a pretty big online company file, I believe that the time spent waiting between matching would be greatly reduced if the bank statement descriptions were automatically searched for an invoice number.
Ideally, it'd work similarly to invoice rules, in which, if a possible invoice number match was found, it would let you know on the "Your Transactions" side, where it could then be recorded and approved.
For Example:
A payment made on the 11/11/2015:
Description: PAYINGCOMPANY INV4785
POTENTIAL METHODS OF MATCHING:
1. Slower way when there's not enough information to make an invoice rule out of it.
- Look up the invoice number, make the payment, then click find on the bank feed and match it.
2. Faster, suggested method:
- Click "find", in which the description is automatically searched for the invoice number.
- Recognised that INV4785 is referring to invoice 4785
- Possible invoice match comes up
- Record.
Anyway, it's just a thought. I hope it gets considered in the near future (provided that it's beneficial for everybody else too).
Hi Sharon (nondiscrypt),
Thank you for your post and the detailed description of the impact of having the ability to search for invoices in the Bank Feeds window. I agree that having this ability would not only save valuable time, it would also make the reconciliation process a lot easier.
As Alan pointed out, this is something that others using the Bank Feeds feature have requested in the past and has been brought to the attention of our developers.
Hi Alan (AlanT),
Thank you for your post and feedback. You are right in that this year our focus has been on workflow and performance improvements in AccountRight. We've fixed various known issues and bugs and have made workflow improvements in our recent updates. More information on these updates is available on the AccountRight blog.
We value product suggestions made by our customers and partners on the Idea Exchange boards. And these, especially the more popular ones, are given serious consideration by our developers when making decisions regarding our roadmap. However these are only a section of what infuences the team's decision making process. Therefore some ideas are able to be implemented sooner than others.
That said I have brought this particular idea to the attention of our AccountRight Product Manager and will provide an update as soon as I have more information.
I appreciate your patience in the meantime.
Regards,
Suja
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