Bank feed vs. matching

QuickBooks connects to your bank. It still can't tell you which invoice that e-transfer paid.

The bank feed imports the money. Matching decides which invoice it clears. Those are two different jobs, and e-transfers only break the second one.

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Importing a deposit is not the same as matching it

This is the most common objection we hear, and it's a fair one. Your bank feed is doing its job perfectly: it pulls in every deposit, including e-transfers, and shows them in For Review. What it cannot do is tell you what each deposit was for. To match a deposit to an invoice, QuickBooks needs a signal — an invoice number, a payee that matches a customer, or an amount unique enough to be unambiguous. An Interac e-Transfer strips out all three. There's no invoice number anywhere in the transaction. The payer name comes from the sender's bank and often isn't your customer's name at all. And amounts repeat constantly in a service business. So the deposit lands in For Review and waits for a human. The bank feed got the money in; you're still doing the matching.

How eTracer fixes it

Two connections. Five minutes. You never chase an e-transfer again.

1
Your filter forwards the e-transfer email
Your one-time Gmail filter forwards each Interac notification to your private eTracer address the moment it lands — eTracer never connects to your inbox, and every email is verified as genuinely from Interac.
2
It matches the right open invoice
Using the amount, timing, and what it's learned about each payer, eTracer finds the matching invoice in QuickBooks Online. Anything unclear waits for a one-tap confirm.
3
It books the payment and sends the receipt
The invoice is marked paid in your books and a branded receipt goes to your client automatically. You just get paid.

Works the way you already get paid

eTracer restores the missing signal. It reads the Interac notification email — which contains the sender, the amount, and often a memo the bank feed never sees — verifies it genuinely came from Interac, and matches it to the right open invoice. The deposit stops sitting in For Review.

In practice
Bank feed says: INTERAC E-TRF, $2,148.00, deposit. That's all QuickBooks ever gets. The email says: Cedar Electric sent you $2,148.00 — “kitchen reno final”. That's what eTracer reads.
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Questions

Good questions, straight answers.

Isn't this what bank rules are for?
Bank rules match on text patterns and amounts. Interac deposits have almost no usable text and repeating amounts, so rules either never fire or fire on the wrong invoice. They also can't identify the payer, which is the actual problem. Most people who build e-transfer rules end up unwinding them.
Doesn't QuickBooks auto-match some payments already?
It does — when the amount and payee are unambiguous, which is normal for cheques and card payments. E-transfers are the case where both signals are missing at once, which is exactly why they're the ones left in For Review.
Do I have to turn off my bank feed?
No. Keep it exactly as it is. The bank feed continues importing transactions; eTracer just makes sure the e-transfers among them arrive already matched to the right invoice.

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