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Hey all,

I have a question a client of us uses the financial types to identify the type of sponsoring he receives. For example for emergency flights, for medicine flights, for mission flights etc....)

But he also wants to track in which bank account the money came in.
So in the accounting sections we got different bank accounts (numbers 1920, 1930 etc) but as we record a contribution we record the financial type and the financial type is also linked to the accounting scheme.

How do I configure the contributions in such a way the contribution is recordded on the right bank account and on the right reservervation (e.g. mission flights)?

Right know we use the financial type to indicate the reservation and we have put a custom field on contribution recording the bank account (but not linked to the accounting section of civi). So we have a kind of a solution what works for the moment but I was just wondering if I missed something about the financial types.

That could be a possibility but it still seems not logical at all. And it means that as we have three possible funds and three bank accounts we end up with nine possibilities... And it in the accounting section it still doesn't get added in right accounts.

From your initial description I had assumed that the income for emergency flights could come in via any of the three bank accounts and ditto for the other flight types.

Is that the situation or does all the income for emergency flights comes in via bank account 1920 (say); all the income for medicine flights comes in via bank account 1930; all the income for mission flights comes in via bank account 1940?

I am not an expert, but it seems to me that if you are looking for a non-code solution that leads to the correct balance in each of the revenue accounts and in each of the bank accounts then you will have to have nine financial types ie. all combinations of the 3 revenue account (emergency, medicine, mission) and the 3 Asset (BANK) accounts (1920, 1930,1940).

You haven't said how the contributions are recorded.  If it is offline then choosing descriptive names for you financial types (eg Emergency1920) will make the choice of financial type easy for office staff.  If it is online then you will need to set up your contribution pages carefully.