When a client payment is made through Actionstep Payments to your trust account Actionstep will automatically create the accounting transactions for that payment.

In this article, we explain the process for these trust transactions. 

Process for trust transactions

When a client pays through Actionstep Payments to your trust account, you will receive an email notification as soon as this payment has been made. 

After the payment, it can take two to three days to settle a credit card payment depending on your bank.

Settling means that the credit card holders bank has cleared the funds and they are ready to be deposited into your trust account.

Creating a trust receipt

When those funds have cleared and appear in your trust account a trust receipt will automatically be created.

Paying an invoice from trust

If the funds were paid into the trust account to pay an invoice then you must pay this invoice manually once you have receipted the trust funds. The invoice will NOT be marked as paid automatically. 

The Bank Withdrawal for the Fees of All Settled Payments

Credit card transactions will incur fees and these are the responsibility of the firm to pay. 

Actionstep will automatically withdrawal the credit card fees for all payments that have settled from your operating bank account.

We create a separate accounting entry in Actionstep automatically whenever this is triggered. This accounting transaction will appear as a Firm Withdrawal in Actionstep.

The expense account that this withdrawal is set to and the sales tax (if any) applied will be applied to this withdrawal are set on the Add/Edit Payment Configuration.