Manage bank rules

Use the Bank Rules page to:

  • Edit, change prioritization, or delete bank rules.

  • Export bank rules from one account to import into another account.
  • Copy bank rules from one account to another account.

Access bank rules

There's a few ways to get to the Bank Rules page. Depending what page you're on, select:

  • Banking, Manage bank rules.

location of Manage bank rules button

  • Actions, Manage bank rules from the bottom right-hand corner of a bank account on the Banking page.

location of Mange bank rules from account tile

  • Rules management from the top of the Incoming Bank Transactions page.

location of rules management button

Edit, re-prioritize, or delete a rule

  1. If necessary, select an account in the Bank accounts field.
  2. Find and then double-click to open the relevant bank rule.
  3. Make the required changes and then select Save or select Delete to delete it.

Export and import bank rules

Use export and import when you want to use the same bank rules in multiple accounts or businesses. First, you'll need to export bank rules from the account where they're set up, then import them to the other account.

Export bank rules

  1. If necessary, select an account in the Bank accounts field.
  2. Select the bank rules you want to export.
  3. Select Export from the action toolbar.

location of export button

  1. Accounting creates a bank rules file (*.json) and saves it in the Downloads folder on your computer.
  2. Close the Bank Rules page.
  3. If you are importing them to an account in another business, sign out and then open the other business.

Import bank rules

  1. On the Banking page, select Actions, Manage bank rules from the bottom right-hand corner of a bank account you want to import rules to.

  2. Select Import bank rules.

location of import bank rules button

  1. Select Upload your json file and then browse to the export file to import the bank rules.

  2. The imported bank rules are listed on the Bank Rules page.

Copy bank rules

  1. If necessary, select an account in the Bank accounts field.

  2. Select the bank rules you want to copy.

  3. Select Copy from the action toolbar.

location of the copy button

  1. Select the account you want to copy the rules to in the Destination bank account field.

  2. Select Copy rules.

  3. The copied bank rules are listed on the Bank Rules page.

After changing bank rules

Be sure to select Apply rules to pending transactions to re-apply your rules to your next batch of incoming transactions.

location of link to apply bank rules changes