Connecting Your Bank with the Bank Feed

The Bank Feed connects an account in your chart of accounts to your real bank, so Argenta pulls in the transactions your bank has posted. You reconcile against real bank lines instead of working from a paper statement. (This is a financial page, so you need finance manager or administrator access.)

The Stripe Bank Feed charges an additional $10 per month. It is opt-in, and switching it off stops the charge. Argenta reads your transactions and never moves money, so nothing here changes your books on its own.

Turn on the Bank Feed

1. Go to General Financials > Chart of Accounts and open the bank account you want to connect.
2. On the Account Details tab, scroll to the Bank Feed panel.
3. Click Turn On The Bank Feed, then confirm.

Steps 2 and 3. The Bank Feed panel before it is switched on.

The Bank Feed is switched on for your whole team, but a bank is linked per account, so each account you reconcile is connected on its own page. The panel appears only on an account that carries a register, because a register is what a bank statement is reconciled against.

Link a bank account

1. With the Bank Feed switched on, click Link A Bank Account in the panel.
2. Sign in to your bank in the window that opens, and choose the account you want to share.
3. When the window closes, the bank is listed in the panel. Closing the window without finishing changes nothing.

What the connection status tells you

• Connected – the feed is running. The panel also shows the date it last updated.
• Not Feeding Yet – the bank is linked, but transactions are not switched on yet.
• Reconnect Needed – your bank ended the connection. The feed stays stopped until you link it again.

Argenta checks on a quiet connection by itself, so a feed that stops is flagged on the account rather than going unnoticed.

Where your bank's transactions appear

Open the account register and click Reconcile Account. On the reconcile screen, a From Your Bank panel lists what your bank reported, alongside your own ledger. Each line shows its description, the date, the bank and the last four digits of the account, and the amount. Money coming in is shown as a positive figure and money going out as a negative one, exactly as the bank reported it.

A line your bank has not settled yet shows its status beside it. It cannot be matched while it is pending, because the amount can still change, but it can be matched once the bank posts it.

Match a bank line and create the deposit

Your team needs an Undeposited Funds account and a default fund set up before a deposit can be built. If either is missing, Argenta tells you when you try to match a line rather than writing something incomplete.

1. Find a line in From Your Bank that money came in on, and click Match.
2. Argenta lists what is waiting to be deposited. Tick the entries that make up that bank line.
3. Watch the running total. It shows what you have ticked against the line's amount, and how much is still to go.
4. Once the ticked total matches the bank line exactly, click Match And Create The Deposit.

Argenta writes the deposit for you, moves the money out of Undeposited Funds, and marks it reconciled. You never type the deposit yourself. While the ticked entries add up to something other than the bank line, the button stays unavailable, so a deposit that does not balance cannot be built.

Only money coming in can be matched to a deposit. If nothing is waiting to be deposited in that period, Argenta says so instead of offering an empty list.

Undo a match

A matched line carries a Matched label and an Undo button. Undo removes the deposit and puts every entry back where it was, ready to be matched again. If one of those entries has since been reconciled somewhere else, Argenta refuses the undo and tells you, rather than leaving it half done.

Remove a bank, or turn the feed off

• To remove one bank and leave the feed running, use the remove icon on that bank's row in the panel.
• To stop the feed altogether, click Turn Off The Bank Feed. This removes every bank linked anywhere on your team, not only the one on the page you are looking at, and the monthly charge stops.