1. Connect your bank account10m
   Create an account with Plaid Reconciliation Engine and link it to your business bank account through its banking data connection.
2. Connect your budget spreadsheet15m
   Upload or link the current budget file so the tool can map its categories to your standard accounting categories.
3. Set matching rules for recurring vendors15m
   Add rules for your recurring charges and known vendors so auto-matching starts accurate rather than guessing.
4. Run a test reconciliation on last week's data20m
   Feed it last week's already-reconciled transactions and manually correct any wrong matches so the matching logic learns your patterns.
5. Schedule the weekly summary5m
   Set the reconciliation summary to generate automatically on a fixed day, for example every Monday morning.

Plaid Reconciliation Enginepricing on their sitethis is the piece that pulls bank transactions, matches them against budget line items, flags what doesn't reconcile, and lets you override matches before you finalize the week, which is the entire task

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Covers: Walks through matching bank transactions to QuickBooks records and resolving discrepancies using standard and AI-powered reconciliation.

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it will not judge whether a budget overage is actually justified, and it will not know about the verbal deal you made with a vendor to delay an invoice. it will not auto-finalize matches without your review, and it will not reconcile a second bank account you haven't connected to it.

by Monday morning every transaction from the week's bank export has either a matched budget line or an override note next to it, and the flagged discrepancies list is either empty or each item has a written explanation.