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Booking transactions for your clients

Advisors can do the actual bookkeeping on a client's bank transactions: set categories, correct VAT rates, confirm matches, and clear transactions as booked. Category suggestions follow a strict precedence — the client's rules, then per-company learned memory, then AI — and always render as an accept-chip you click, never an automatic booking. Access is bounded: no billing, no team management, no deletions, every action logged, revocable by the client at any time.

You do the books, not just the review

Advisor access in TaxItEasy isn't read-only. On a client's bank transactions you can categorize, correct VAT rates, confirm and reject invoice matches, link invoices manually (including across a currency mismatch, with an explicit override), request receipts, and clear transactions as booked — single or in bulk. The client uploads; you book.

Category suggestions: Rules > Learned > AI

For open, uncategorized transactions the system proposes a category. Three sources compete, with strict precedence:

  1. Rules — the company's own matching rules. Deterministic and always first: an explicit rule outranks everything.
  2. Learned — the per-company memory of past categorizations of the same counterparty. It activates after the same category has been chosen 3 times for a counterparty, and a single correction makes the newest choice win. Learning is strictly per client company — no data is pooled across customers.
  3. AI — a model-based fallback for the long tail. Low-confidence guesses are dropped rather than shown.

Whatever the source, the suggestion renders the same way: a chip above the category dropdown — "Suggested: {Label} · Accept" — shown only when there is a suggestion and the transaction has no category yet. Accepting books it in one click and is recorded in the audit log. Nothing is ever auto-applied: a human decision sits in front of every booking, always.

Two timing details: your corrections teach the learned layer immediately, but a new suggestion chip appears with the next categorization batch run (a bank import or the nightly sweep) rather than instantly. And suggestions only ever propose — the receipt gate and clearing rules still apply to whatever you accept.

Creating categories inline

When the client's category list doesn't fit, you don't have to leave the panel: "+ Add category…" creates a new custom category on the spot, with account-code guardrails so the new category lands sensibly in the chart. The list you pick from combines the per-country standard categories with the company's custom ones, and a category that doesn't match the transaction's money direction is rejected rather than mis-booked.

Bounded access — what you can't do

The write access is deliberately fenced:

  • No billing — you can't see or touch the client's subscription or payment methods.
  • No team management — you can't invite or remove members, or add other advisors.
  • No deletions — you can't delete the company, documents, or invoices.
  • No company settings beyond the tax regime (itself behind a two-step confirm and audited).
  • Strict per-client scoping — an advisor of company A gets a hard denial on company B, even in search results.

Every advisor action is written to an append-only audit log, every write shows up in the client's own activity feed with your name and role, and entries you create carry a "by tax advisor" badge in the client's lists. The client can revoke your access at any time — revocation immediately deletes your per-document decryption keys, and if it happens mid-session the UI detects it and returns you to your dashboard. This is by design: bounded, transparent access is what lets clients hand their books to an external advisor with confidence.

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