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Bank that offers payment narration in transactions

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May 25, 2018
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Bank that offers payment narration in transactions

You pay a vendor or supplier, there's no meaningful narration to the transaction making book keeping harder. Please which bank offers accounts with the ability to properly narrate payments and transactions so it's easy to remember what the transactions are for....
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Deal Addict
Jan 1, 2017
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Mrman123 wrote: You pay a vendor or supplier, there's no meaningful narration to the transaction making book keeping harder. Please which bank offers accounts with the ability to properly narrate payments and transactions so it's easy to remember what the transactions are for....
What method of payment are you using? What specific info do you want to have in the transaction?
Newbie
Feb 17, 2017
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Hamilton, ON
I've used RBC and BMO and find the transaction records pretty barebones and useless. you'll probably have to do it yourself, not in the bank's software. when you make the payment, record somewhere in your own records the date, amount, invoice number etc. could be just a google doc or spreadsheet and then whenever you or your bookkeeper updates the books, the human reviews the notes and transfers the info into quickbooks or whatever.
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zorg001 wrote: I've used RBC and BMO and find the transaction records pretty barebones and useless. you'll probably have to do it yourself, not in the bank's software. when you make the payment, record somewhere in your own records the date, amount, invoice number etc. could be just a google doc or spreadsheet and then whenever you or your bookkeeper updates the books, the human reviews the notes and transfers the info into quickbooks or whatever.
Have you tried out any other banks? or credit unions? Maybe I should ask any one ones Im approaching for a new account about this so I know what they say before opening the account.
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Feb 17, 2017
90 posts
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Hamilton, ON
Mrman123 wrote: Have you tried out any other banks? or credit unions? Maybe I should ask any one ones Im approaching for a new account about this so I know what they say before opening the account.
I have not tried any others. Probably the best solution is to maintain your own books outside the bank. Most banks have a way to download transactions as CSV, Excel, and/or quickbooks files. Once a month you download transactions, import them to your accounting software, and make notes on the transactions there.

https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/onlinebank ... index.html

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