Example 1 - Daily Deposit and a Monthly Fee

Here’s a common scenario: Your customers pays for invoices using credit cards. These credit card transactions are processed via a merchant service provider (like Chase Paymentech), who holds these payments and then at the end of each day deposits the funds into your bank account. At the end of the month, they take the fee for their services directly from your business bank account.

There are a couple accounts that you may need to set up:

Your merchant account is a bank account where your funds are temporarily placed before being transferred to your regular business bank account. So, you’ll need to set up a Merchant Bank Account in Kashoo.
The fees that your merchant account provider charge you need to be accounted for. You can create a new expense account titled Merchant Fees to expense them.

To set up the accounts, go to the Accounts page and find the Add New Account section at the top.

1. Create a new Merchant Bank Account

Number: Kashoo will automatically create one, but you can enter your own number if you like
Description: You can add a description if you like, but it’s not necessary
Name: Merchant Bank Account (or whatever name you like)
Type: Bank

2. Create a new Merchant Fees Expense Account

Number: Kashoo will automatically create one, but you can enter your own number if you like
Description: You can add a description if you like, but it’s not necessary
Name: Merchant Fees (or whatever name you like)
Type: Expense

3. Receive income from customers

Today we received a $500 credit card payment from Beauty Magazine for a photo shoot, so we’ll enter that as income using the Income page.

The income is entered like any other transaction, with the exception that for the Terms or Payment Account the Merchant Bank Account is chosen.

4. Transfer the money from the merchant account to your bank account

At the end of the day, Chase Paymentech transfers the payments to our business bank account. Today, we only received the single $500 payment, so we’ll go to the Journal Entries page and select Enter Transfer to make the transfer from our Merchant Bank Account to our business Bank Account for the entire amount.

5. Enter the merchant fee

At the end of the month, Chase Paymentech charges us a fee of $203.20 for all our transactions. We pay that fee like any other expense, using the Bank Account as the Paid From and the Merchant Fee account as the Expense account.

Note: For the Paid From, you choose your business Bank Account. However, if the merchant services provider deducted funds directly from your Merchant Bank Account, then choose that account instead.