The time difference between a payment being made and the bank clearing the funds to a bank account is important to remember when preparing club accounts using the club’s bank statements. Another factor to consider is that a whole day’s payments are totaled up and cleared as one lump sum, rather than individual payments.
Organisation’s financial officer can either reconcile payments by using either:-
1. Payment notification emails or
2. Downloading daily Westpac iLink reconciliation files
Downloading Daily Westpac iLink reconciliation files
Browse to https://ilink.westpac.com.au/LoginView and login with your clubs login details
NOTE: if you cannot remember your login details or have been locked out of your account please log an IT Support ticket
Once logged in you will see recent activity for your organisation and recently received files. The recently receive files are the end-of-day reconciliation files To view additional files click the Files tab and a drop down will display, select Inbox.
These files do not represent individual transactions – they include all payments made via the gateway to your club or support entity on a single day. Files are deleted 90 days after they arrive in the inbox so if you want a complete record of these, please download them regularly and save them on your computer.
To download a file click on the Name of the file eg SLSA_102_CA20200212200836.csv. The following screen will display. Files can be downloaded in their uncompressed .CSV format, or in a smaller compressed Zip format. Simply click on the version you prefer and save the file locally on your PC.
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