From the till drawer to the bank, the honest way

Cash and cheques taken at the counter do not teleport to the bank — they sit in the drawer, then go as one deposit. The Deposits screen models that truth: settled payments wait in undeposited funds until you bank them as a batch, and the books then show one deposit line that matches the bank statement's one line, to the cent.

Without this discipline, reconciliation is archaeology: forty till payments against one statement line. With it, ticking is instant.

The screen lists every payment waiting — date, customer, invoice, method, amount — with checkboxes and a running total. Select what physically went in the bag, press Bank Selected, and the batch posts from undeposited funds to the bank account in one movement.

31 payments waiting shows as 31 payments waiting: the screen is honest about backlog, which is how backlog ends.

If the undeposited-funds ledger balance disagrees with the payments listed, the screen says so, in red, with the two numbers — something reached that account by a route the list does not know about, worth checking before banking. Most software would let you find that at year end; this screen makes it a today problem.

That habit of self-checking runs through the accounting suite: trial balance, balance sheet, cash flow and deposits each verify their own integrity out loud.