Go to Banking, select your bank account, and click Connect Feed. Zoho Books uses a secure read-only banking aggregator (Plaid or an equivalent service) to connect to your bank. You authorise the connection using your net banking credentials (stored securely by the aggregator, not by Zoho Books). Once connected, transactions appear in the bank feed within 24 hours and continue to import daily.
Without a bank feed, you manually enter every payment and receipt, or import a monthly bank statement CSV. With a bank feed, Zoho Books imports transactions automatically and tries to match them to existing invoices, bills, and expenses using matching rules. You review suggested matches and either confirm or correct them. What used to take a day of month-end work can be done in 30 minutes of daily review.
If your bank does not support a direct feed, you can import a CSV or OFX file of your bank statement manually. Go to Banking, select the account, and click Import Statement. Map the CSV columns to the required fields (date, description, debit amount, credit amount). Zoho Books then applies matching rules to auto-categorise transactions, with you reviewing and confirming the suggestions.
A bank feed in Zoho Books is an automated connection between your bank account and Zoho Books that imports all bank transactions daily, so you can categorise and reconcile them without manually entering each deposit and payment.
Zoho Books supports direct bank feeds for HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, and others. For unsupported banks, you can manually import transactions using a CSV or OFX bank statement file.
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