Bills not linking to payments

[MrPainter39]

I have monthly bills that are marked overdue even thought the payments are marked allocated in my bank feed. Why are they not being marked as payed?

[SamaraM]

Hi @MrPainter39 

Welcome to the Community Forum.

For each bank transaction you have 2 options. You can match or allocate it. Matching is used to mark an existing MYOB transaction as being paid. Allocate is used for transactions not entered in MYOB.

If you have been allocating instead of matching, then it would cause the original bill as remaining open and another Spend Money being created. If this is the case you would need to remove the allocation and match instead for all of those payments. 

For more information on the difference between matching/allocating: Working with bank transactions.

If my response has answered your enquiry please click "Accept as Solution" to assist other users find this information.

[MrPainter39]

The bills that have been created are remaining open, after the payment has come through on the bank feed. Should they not automatically match to the bank transaction? They used to before this 'update'.

[SamaraM]

Hi @MrPainter39 

Yes, the software can do Automatic Matching on this version. Essentials will try to automatically Match Transactions from your Bank Feeds with existing Essentials Transactions.

There are a few situations that it looks for when doing the auto-match:

• Same date
• The exact same amount
• Same type (searching sales or bills depending if it was a withdrawal or deposit)
• If there are any other transactions for the same amount (If there are two identical transactions, a match won’t happen)

Hope that helps and if you are still not able to work out why it's not Automatically Matching, getting a screenshot would be ideal. (redacting any sensitive information or you can send it through Private Message).