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How to Reconcile Bank Transactions
Import your bank statement, review suggested matches, and create clean posted transactions in Pricefic.

Overview

Bank reconciliation in Pricefic helps you turn a bank statement into clean, posted transactions without entering each line manually. You upload a statement, review the parsed entries, confirm the correct account categories and transaction types, and then import the final records into your books.

This is especially useful when you want to catch missing entries, avoid duplicate recording, and keep your bank account balances aligned with your ledger.

Before You Start

Before importing a statement, make sure you already have:

  • A bank account set up in Pricefic
  • A business selected for the transactions you are importing
  • The right accounts/categories available for classifying expenses and income

Pricefic currently imports bank statements from a PDF upload on the reconciliation screen.

Uploading a Bank Statement

To begin:

  1. Go to Transactions
  2. Open Import transactions
  3. Choose the Bank Account
  4. Choose the Business
  5. Upload the bank statement (PDF)
  6. Click Import

After upload, Pricefic creates an import batch and starts parsing the statement in the background.

What Pricefic Does Automatically

When the parser runs, Pricefic reads each transaction from the uploaded statement and prepares an import preview. For every line it:

  • Extracts the transaction date
  • Extracts the description
  • Determines the amount
  • Sets a default transaction type as income or expense
  • Checks for likely duplicates against existing transactions for the same bank account

If an exact match is found, the transaction is marked as a likely duplicate instead of being treated as a new transaction by default.

Reviewing the Preview Screen

Once parsing is complete, you land on the Review & Import Transactions screen.

This page shows:

  • Total Transactions — all parsed lines from the statement
  • To Create — entries that will be created as new transactions
  • Duplicates — entries Pricefic believes already exist

You can review each row before importing anything into your books.

Setting Transaction Type and Category

For each parsed entry, review the fields carefully:

  • Type — Confirm whether the row is Income or Expense
  • Category — Select the correct account from your chart of accounts

Examples:

  • A customer payment should usually be classified as an income transaction
  • Bank charges should usually be classified as an expense
  • Transfers, loan activity, or owner-related transactions should be classified into the appropriate account, not a generic expense bucket

This review step is important because the imported transactions will be created as posted entries and will affect reports and balances immediately after confirmation.

How Duplicate Detection Works

Pricefic checks existing transactions for the selected bank account and compares:

  • The amount
  • The date
  • The transaction description

If a matching transaction is found, the imported line is treated as a duplicate candidate. This helps prevent you from importing the same bank movement twice.

Even at confirmation time, Pricefic performs another duplicate check before creating each transaction. That extra check reduces the risk of duplicate records if something changed during review.

Confirming the Import

When you click Confirm & Import, Pricefic imports only the entries that are still marked for creation.

Before finalizing, keep these points in mind:

  • Imported transactions are created as posted
  • The selected category and transaction type are used on the final transaction record
  • The import may consume credits based on how many transactions will be created

If you do not have enough credits and you are not covered by an active subscription, Pricefic will stop the import and ask you to top up before continuing.

What Happens After Confirmation

After a successful confirmation:

  • New transactions are created for the selected business and bank account
  • The imported transactions are marked as created in the batch
  • Duplicates and non-created rows are skipped
  • Credits are deducted for created transactions when applicable
  • The bank account balance is synced from the confirmed transactions

You are then redirected back to your transactions list so you can continue reviewing your books.

Reconciliation Reminder Emails

Pricefic can also help you stay consistent with reconciliation by sending reminder emails when that preference is enabled for your account.

If you want to review or change that setting:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Open Email preferences
  3. Turn the reconciliation reminder option on or off
  4. Save your changes

This is useful if you want regular prompts to keep your records current without relying on memory alone.

If You Need to Cancel

If the batch is wrong or the statement needs to be replaced, use Discard on the review page. This cancels the batch so you can start a fresh import.

Pricefic also prevents you from starting a new import while you still have an unsettled import batch in progress. Finish or cancel the current batch first, then upload a new statement.

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