Bank movements
Bank movements are each debit and credit in your accounts. They flow in on their own from your connected treasuries (bank, Stripe, PayPal) and are the raw material Aikount uses to reconcile and categorize.
Where they live
All movements live in the Banking section, inside the treasury they belong to. Each movement carries, at a minimum, its date, its amount (with a sign: debit or credit) and the description sent by the bank or provider.
Filtering and finding
When you have many entries, the usual thing is to narrow them down:
- By treasury, to see just one account.
- By date, to review a specific period.
- By amount or description text, to pin down a single movement.
That makes it easy to isolate a specific payment or go over all the charges in a month.
What movements are for
Movements aren't an end in themselves: they feed two central Aikount mechanisms.
Reconciliation
Each movement is linked to the sales invoice or expense that caused it. Aikount reconciles on its own only when it's very confident and leaves the rest on a suggestions board to confirm. Full detail in How reconciliation works.
Auto-categorization rules
For recurring spend (subscriptions, fees, utilities), rules classify movements automatically: if the description contains certain text, the movement goes to the category or account you define. Rules can span several accounts. See Auto-categorization rules.
The cleaner and better categorized your movements are, the better your accounting adds up and the more reliable the amounts on your AEAT tax models.