Bank transaction
One line from your bank: a deposit, a charge, a fee, a transfer. Imported from a statement, entered by hand, or synced.
In Solo Superstars
See them under Accounting › Bank transactions. Each carries its source (csv, manual, or synced), a posted or pending status, the raw descriptor, the payee Alison resolved, and its category once classified. Inflows are positive, outflows negative.
Example
2026-08-14 · SQ *BLUE BOTTLE · −14.50 · payee Blue Bottle Coffee · 6205 Business Meals.
Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.
Also called
- bank line
- transaction
Related
- Statement import — Uploading a bank or card statement (CSV or PDF). The importer checks that opening balance plus activity equals the closing balance before anything is saved.
- Categorize — Telling a bank transaction which ledger account it belongs to. Alison does most of it; you confirm the uncertain ones.
- Auto-match — Alison pairing an imported bank transaction with the invoice payment, bill, transfer or payout it belongs to, by amount, date and payee.
- Bank register — The running list of one bank account’s transactions with a balance after each line, like a checkbook.
- Descriptor — The raw text your bank prints on a transaction, like SQ *BLUE BOTTLE 0421. Alison turns it into a payee.