Bank & payments

How to record a manual payment

Log a bank transfer, card, or cash payment received outside automated collection flows.

1 min readUpdated 10.07.2026

Manual payments track money received outside GoCardless or other integrations. See how to track payments and allocations and how to mark an invoice as paid.

Payments page with new payment form fields and Create action.
Payments page with new payment form fields and Create action.

Record the payment

  1. Open Payments from the sidebar.
  2. Enter amount, currency, method, status, and paid date.
  3. Add an optional reference such as a bank transfer concept.
  4. Select Create to add the payment to the ledger.

Allocate to invoices

  1. Select the payment in the ledger.
  2. Add allocations to issued invoices in the right panel.
  3. Save allocations so invoice balances stay accurate.

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