How to use it

1. Pick the month, then choose the account the lines should go to: press Use this account beside it in the Your accounts table (or type its id, e.g. supplies, and press Show).
2. Tick the statement lines that belong to that account — up to 30 at a time.
3. Press Book ticked lines.

Each line becomes one entry in your Ledger book with two sides: your bank account moves by the line's amount, and the account you chose moves by the opposite. So a £19.99 card payment to a supplier books £19.99 out of the bank and £19.99 into supplies, and the entry balances by construction.

Only accounts you already have

The account must already exist in Ledger book, be open, use the same currency as your bank account, and not be the bank account itself. Anything else is refused and nothing is booked. Your open accounts are listed underneath, each with a Use this account button, so you pick one rather than type it.

All or nothing

⛔ The ticked lines are booked in one transaction: every one of them lands, or none does. There is no half-booked month to tidy up after a failure.

It cannot book a line twice

Each entry is named after the statement line it came from, so ticking a line that is already booked — from a second tab, or by pressing twice — books nothing new. Those lines are counted as skipped.

What it trusts

Only the ids of the ticked lines and the account you typed come from the page. The date, description and amount are read again from your imported statement at the moment of booking, so what is booked is what the bank said.

Lines you already typed in

A line you linked to an entry you typed into Ledger book yourself (see Match lines typed by hand) is already in your books, so it is not offered here.

A closed month

While a month is closed (see Close the month), nothing in it is booked or matched here; reopen it first.