# Bank feeds and payment matching

> Connect your bank through Lean or Tarabut, or upload statements, and let Alya Books match incoming payments to invoices.

Source: /help/en/account-and-setup/bank-feeds

Bank feeds bring your bank transactions into Alya Books and match them to open invoices (money in) and accepted supplier invoices (money out). You confirm a suggestion with one click and the payment is recorded; you can undo it at any time.

## Get transactions in

**Live feed.** Under **Settings → Payments → Bank feeds**, add a connection with **Lean Technologies** or **Tarabut** (enter the credentials from the provider) or the **Simulated** feed for trying things out. Alya Books pulls transactions when you save, when you click **Sync bank feed** on the Bank page, and once a day.

**Statement upload.** On the **Bank** page click **Upload statement** and choose the CSV or Excel export from your online banking. Alya Books recognises the usual columns (date, amount or debit/credit, description, reference, counterparty name and IBAN) and skips rows it has already imported, so you can upload overlapping statements.

## How matching works

For each transaction Alya Books scores the open invoices in the same direction (credits against your invoices, debits against supplier invoices):

- the invoice number appearing in the bank text is the strongest signal;
- an amount equal to the outstanding balance, the counterparty name matching the customer, the TRN in the text and a date shortly after the issue date add to the score.

Transactions with a good candidate become **suggested**; the rest stay **unmatched**. When **Confirm high-confidence matches automatically** is on (Settings → Payments), a transaction whose invoice number is in the text, whose amount equals the balance and that has no close runner-up is confirmed without you.

## Review on the Bank page

The **Bank** page (System group) lists transactions with their status and best suggestion.

- **Confirm** records the payment on the suggested invoice (a smaller amount becomes a partial payment).
- **Change** or **Match…** lets you pick another invoice or supplier invoice.
- **Ignore** hides fees, transfers and anything that is not an invoice payment; **Restore** brings it back.
- **Undo** on a matched transaction removes the payment again.
- **Re-run matching** rescores everything still open, for example after you issued the missing invoice.

Payments recorded from the feed carry the source *bank feed* and the bank reference, and the `bank.transaction_matched` webhook fires.

## Related

- [Online payments](/help/en/settings/online-payments)
- [Payments and payment status](/help/en/invoices/payments-and-payment-status)