Reconciliation
Compare your client's transaction data in Kick against bank and credit card statements to surface discrepancies before closing the books.
Getting started
Go to the Accounting tab and click Reconciliation. Select the account you want to reconcile from the entity dropdown in the top right, then click Reconcile.
Reconciliation is currently supported for checking accounts, savings accounts, and credit cards.
Reconciliation start date
The start date defaults to the account's bookkeeping start date. Reconciliation requires consecutive statement periods from that date — you cannot skip ahead without reconciling everything in between.
If the bookkeeping start date is earlier than where you want to begin:
Reconcile from the start date forward, uploading all statements in between
Change the bookkeeping start date — but this removes all transaction data synced before that date
Important: If prior-year books are already finalized, reconciling from the original start date is the safer option. The opening balance JE can be immediately reversed to avoid affecting closed periods.
Uploading statements
Upload PDF or scanned statements for the periods you want to reconcile. You can upload a single statement or multiple at once for catch-up bookkeeping.
The first statement must overlap with the reconciliation start date
Statement periods must be consecutive — no gaps
Kick extracts account information, balances, and transactions automatically. Review the extracted data in the side-by-side view — the source document on the left, extracted transactions in an editable table on the right — before clicking Continue.
Opening balance
Kick suggests an opening balance journal entry based on the extracted statement data. For mid-month statement periods, the amount is calculated for you.
Click Set opening balance, select the balancing account, and click Create journal entry.
Note: The opening balance must be confirmed even if it's zero.
Reviewing discrepancies
Kick surfaces three types of differences between statement and account data:
Transactions on the statement missing in Kick — may indicate a sync gap
Transactions in Kick missing from the statement — may indicate duplicates
Balance differences between statement ending balance and Kick account balance
Kick suggests changes including date adjustments, adding missing transactions, and removing duplicates. Navigate suggestions with Space, confirm with Accept or Return, or click Accept all.
The Summary section at the top shows the difference between the statement balance and the Balance Sheet balance.
Period-boundary transactions
Transactions on the same date can land on different statements depending on the cutoff. If 10 transactions occur on 1/31 but only 5 appear on the January statement, the statement balance won't match the Balance Sheet as of that date. This is expected — the remaining transactions are marked Unreconciled and matched when you reconcile the next period.
Completing reconciliation
Click Complete reconciliation. All matched transactions are marked Reconciled and cannot be deleted from Kick.
Re-matching — Drag and drop a transaction on the Kick side to reassign a match. You can only re-match transactions with the same amount.
Undoing reconciliation — Reconciled transactions revert to Unreconciled. Transactions added during reconciliation remain, but removed transactions and date changes are not restored.
Reconciliation Demo
Watch the below video to learn how to reconcile multiple periods at once, create an opening balance journal entry, and quickly resolve reconciliation discrepancies.
FAQs
Can I view past reconciliations?
Yes. Go to Accounting in the sidebar and select Reconciliation. Find the account and expand it to see all completed reconciliations, including the start date, end date, beginning balance, and ending balance for each period.
Can I undo a completed reconciliation?
Yes, but only the most recent reconciliation for a given account.
Go to Accounting in the sidebar and select Reconciliation
Find the account, and expand it to see your prior reconciliations
Click Undo on the last completed reconciliation.
Hover over the most recent reconciliation row and click the three-dot menu (⋯)
Select Undo from the dropdown.
What happens when I undo a reconciliation?
Transactions that were marked as reconciled are set back to unreconciled
Transactions added during reconciliation remain in the system
Transactions removed during reconciliation are not restored
Date changes made to match the statement are not reverted.
Can I un-reconcile a single transaction without undoing the whole reconciliation?
No. To unreconcile a specific transaction, you need to undo the entire reconciliation that contains it.
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