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Partners and bank matching with AI

KMU | base › KI

Existing Finance tools cover creating partners with country and early payment discount, and manually allocating partial payments.

Step by step

  1. To create a partner, provide company, name, type and desired details. If no other country is supplied, CH applies as in the form.
  2. For a manual partial payment, specify company, bank movement, open item and amount, without an additional matching suggestion. Check the preview before approval.

Sales through AI

Finance | base

In the AI chat, you can create customers and items, record payments, decide on quotations or convert them into drafts, send documents and create credit notes. Items require sales management permission. Payments and sending require approval by another person.

Step by step

  1. Please provide or clarify: Document.
  2. Please check the details. The action runs only after approval. Converted documents remain drafts.
  3. Sending requires approval by another person. In demo companies, emails remain in the demo outbox; external electronic deliveries are blocked.

Manage sales documents and reminders in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI creates deposit invoices, marks documents as complete, discards drafts and starts reminder runs after preview and authorisation.

Step by step

  1. Specify the company and document by number, title or customer name.
  2. Clarify missing or ambiguous details and the deposit percentage.
  3. Review the preview and authorise the action.

Handle sales documents in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI resends reminders, confirms postal deliveries already made, creates returns and partial or final invoices, sends selected documents and stops scheduled delivery.

Step by step

  1. Specify the company, action and documents by number or title.
  2. Clarify missing details, items and quantities, and the date and time for scheduled delivery.
  3. Review the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Handle accounting and documents in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI records payments against open items, creates accounting partners, reverses journal entries and records income, expenses or transfers. It cancels or copies sales documents, saves purchase orders and blocks supplier items.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action, company and item, entry, document or supplier by name or number.
  2. Clarify missing or ambiguous details. For purchase orders, provide all items with text, quantity and price.
  3. Review the preview. For reversals, check the number, date and amount and explicitly authorise the action.

Handle purchasing and bank reconciliation in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI converts purchase orders into supplier invoices, changes order status, posts bank transactions manually, ignores or reopens them and records supplier credit notes.

Step by step

  1. Specify the company, action and purchase order, bank transaction or supplier.
  2. Clarify missing details and select the appropriate suggestion if there is ambiguity.
  3. Review the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Handle expenses and purchasing in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI creates your expense claims, records or amends items, submits expenses and decides on authorised claims. It records supplier invoices, authorises supplier items, confirms bank proposals and records balanced journal entries.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and claim, supplier, item or bank transaction by name, number or amount.
  2. Clarify missing or ambiguous details by answering the question.
  3. Review the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Handle cards, expenses and payments in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI marks card transactions as private or posts them, posts expense claims, creates recurring expenses, generates due expenses and creates payment runs or their payment files.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company or expense claim.
  2. Clarify missing or ambiguous details using the readable suggestions.
  3. Review the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Manage payment runs, expenses and assets in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI discards or withdraws payment runs with a reason, saves the IBAN for your expenses, removes your expense items, reopens your claims for revision, approves selected claims from others and registers assets or their disposal.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company or your own claim by title or number.
  2. Select a readable suggestion and supply missing details.
  3. Check the targets, date and amounts in the preview, then explicitly authorise the action.

Bank details, inventory closing and incoming documents in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI saves bank details, posts inventory adjustments and assigns incoming documents to a company. It can override duplicate warnings, request AI proposals and discard incoming documents.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and document by file name or invoice number, or the company.
  2. Clarify the target, then the IBAN, optional BIC and bank account, or the reference date.
  3. Review the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Manage cash, master data and posting rules in conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI records cash counts, activates or deactivates accounts, saves cost centres, transfers aggregated payroll packages to the journal and edits or activates posting rules.

Step by step

  1. Specify the company and action and select the account, cost centre or rule by name or number.
  2. Clarify missing or ambiguous details and provide all form values.
  3. Check the resolved targets and values in the preview and explicitly authorise the action.

Bank reconciliation in the AI conversation

In the Finance | base AI assistant

The AI confirms bank proposals including settlement discounts or manually allocates a movement to an open item, including partial payments.

Step by step

  1. Specify the company and bank movement by reference or counterparty.
  2. Choose an existing proposal or explicitly specify the open item by document number and the amount in bank currency.
  3. Check the item, amount and targets in the preview, then approve.

Data migration and document numbers with AI

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI supports these actions following a preview and human approval: Prepare data migration from text, Execute reviewed data migration, Set next document number.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company, then identify existing entries by full name or known ID.
  2. Clarify missing information and ambiguous targets.
  3. Review the preview and consequences, then approve explicitly.

Finance in conversation: Post depreciation / Close financial year / Lock months / Close VAT return / Calculate VAT / Save VAT status

In the Finance | base AI assistant

Post depreciation. Close financial year. Lock months. Close VAT return. Calculate VAT. Save VAT status.

Step by step

  1. Missing details and ambiguous targets are clarified individually. Execution requires review of the preview and human approval. Form permissions and locks apply.

Finance in conversation: Save sales VAT registration / Save budget / Save unit / Create series from document

In the Finance | base AI assistant

Save sales VAT registration. Save budget. Save unit. Create series from document.

Step by step

  1. Missing details and ambiguous targets are clarified individually. Execution requires review of the preview and human approval. Form permissions and locks apply.

Finance in conversation: Save scanned stocktake count / Start stocktake / Count or close stocktake

In the Finance | base AI assistant

Save scanned stocktake count. Start stocktake. Count or close stocktake.

Step by step

  1. Missing details and ambiguous targets are clarified individually. Execution requires review of the preview and human approval. Form permissions and locks apply.

Manage document and email templates with AI

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI supports these actions following a preview and human approval: Save or reset email template, Create document template, Edit document template, Delete document template, Choose default document template.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company, then identify existing entries by full name or known ID.
  2. Clarify missing information and ambiguous targets.
  3. Review the preview and consequences, then approve explicitly.

Manage expenses, attachments and webhooks with AI

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI supports these actions following a preview and human approval: Delete own expense draft, Remove draft document attachment, Delete webhook, Enable or disable webhook.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company, then identify existing entries by full name or known ID.
  2. Clarify missing information and ambiguous targets.
  3. Review the preview and consequences, then approve explicitly.

Set up accounting and bank rules with AI

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI supports these actions following a preview and human approval: Change accounting type, Set up accounting, Create ledger account, Check or import a chart of accounts from text, Save bank rule.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company, then identify existing entries by full name or known ID.
  2. Clarify missing information and ambiguous targets.
  3. Review the preview and consequences, then approve explicitly.

Tidy up master data, price lists and projects with AI

In the Finance | base AI assistant

AI supports these actions following a preview and human approval: Remove supplier from item, Delete project task, Delete project hourly rate, Delete custom field definition, Delete customer group, Delete price list, Remove price list assignment.

Step by step

  1. Specify the action and company, then identify existing entries by full name or known ID.
  2. Clarify missing information and ambiguous targets.
  3. Review the preview and consequences, then approve explicitly.

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