Bank Genie
Software for Managing Bank Accounts

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Bank Genie 4 and Bank Genie Pro 4
Last updated: 28th February 2018

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Index

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

User Guide Options

Bank Accounts

Bank Groups

Categories

Category Groups

Tags

Manage Transactions

Standing Orders

Process Standing Orders

Online & Downloads

Transaction Analyser

Net Worth

P&L Years and Groups

P&L Reports

Invoices

Password Protection

Database Protection

Quick Backups

Backups (with history)

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack

Importing Data

Broken Transfers

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

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Searching for transactions
Screen BS421S05 (with screenshots)
Screenshot

To display this screen:
Click the Search button in the initial screen of the program Input Transactions - BS421

In this section:

The Search in pop-up
Referring to this screenshot
Start your search by making a selection using the Search In popup
Note that there are three search options.
Screenshot

The Ascending/Descending radio buttons
Referring to this screenshot
If you set the Search In Popup to Search inside Paid to/Received from field

  • Ascending will display the list of results in ascending alphabetic order based on the Paid To column
  • Descending will display the list of results in descending alphabetic order based on the Paid To column

If you set the Search In Popup to Search the Amount field

  • Ascending will display the results in ascending amount order
  • Descending will display the results in descending amount order

If you set the Search In Popup to Search the Cheque No field

  • Ascending will display the results in ascending Cheque no order
  • Descending will display the results in descending Cheque no order

The One Bank/All Banks radio button
Referring to this screenshot

  • When you select One Bank, the program will indicate the name of the Bank you were working with in the initial screen of the program when you clicked the Search button.
    The program will limit its search to transactions within that bank account
  • When you select All Banks, the program will search for transactions within all bank accounts in your database

The Date Range radio buttons
The From and To date field controls are only visible when Date Range is selected using the radio buttons.
This screenshot shows the result when Date Range is selected

  • Date Range
    Available for One Bank or All Banks
    When selected, From and To date fields are made visible
    The program will do a search for transactions between the date range.
    The From and To dates are inclusive.
  • Unreconciled (Includes 999997)
    This option is only available when One Bank is selected
    If selected when All Banks are selected, the program will change the setting of the Banks Radio buttons to One Bank.
    The program will do a search for transactions which are unreconciled.
    Since transactions in the Excluded statement (999997) are not reconciled, they are included in the search.
    The From and To date fields are not displayed in this mode as the required information is derived by Bank Genie.
  • 999997 only
    This option is only available when One Bank is selected AND when the selected bank actually has transactions in the 999997 statement.
    The program will do a search for transactions which are in statement 999997.
    The From and To date fields are not displayed in this mode as the required information is derived by Bank Genie.

Features using the From and To date field controls:

  • Click the Arrows left button to the left of the From date field. Bank Genie will set the From Date to the date of the oldest (by Cheque date) transaction in your database.
  • Click the Arrows Right button to the right of the To date field. Bank Genie will set the To Date to the date of the most recent (by Cheque date) transaction in your database.

The Back and Select button
Referring to this screenshot
Click to select a transaction in the list of search results
Click the Back and Select button

  • the search screen will close
  • the initial screen (BS421S01) will reappear
  • in the initial screen, the selected transaction will be displayed and shown highlighted (selected), ready for you to work with that transaction.
    The Bank and Statement Number for the transaction will be set correctly by Bank Genie.
    Thus, the settings when the search was initiated may change.

The Back and Include button
Referring to this screenshot
This button is only enabled when you click on a transaction which is in Statement No 999997.
Click to select a transaction which is shown (in the Statment column) to be in Statement No 999997 in the list of search results
Click the Back and Include button

  • the search screen will close
  • the initial screen (BS421S01) will reappear
  • in the initial screen, the last unreconciled statement will be displayed.
    NOTE: The Bank Statement setting may have been changed.
  • The transaction will be moved from the 999997 statement to the last unreconciled statement.
  • in the initial screen, the selected transaction will be displayed and shown highlighted (selected), ready for you to work with that transaction.

The Edit button
Referring to this screenshot
Click to select a transaction in the list of search results
Click the Edit button

  • If you are using Bank Genie Pro:-
    the Edit Transaction screen BS421S03 will appear
    You may edit or delete the transaction in BS421S03
  • If you are using Bank Genie 4:-
    The Edit Transaction screen BS421S31 will reappear
    You may edit or delete the transaction in BS421S31
  • when you close the edit screen, the Search screen will reappear.
    The results list will be refreshed to reflect any changes you made when editing the transaction

When you double click on a result line
This has the same effect as clicking the Edit button - described above.

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Summary of screenshots for screen BS421S05
Screenshot BS421S05-1 - The features available for doing a search
Screenshot BS421S05-2 - The actions available after doing a search

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