Install

pip install mds-account-statement-fints

Limitations

• PIN/TAN authentication only

• read only access

Configure access to your bank

Create your Bank

Open Banking/Banks and create your bank. The value for the FinTS-URL can be found on the website ‘https://www.hbci-zka.de/institute/institut_auswahl.htm’, search for your bank and copy the value for PIN/TAN-URL.

Create Account

Open Banking/Account. Create an account and enter owner, currency, and the bank you just created. Your company must be the owner of the bank account to allow online access. Create a ‘Number’. Enter your IBAN and activate ‘enable online access’. In ‘FinTS-Login’ enter the login name for your online account. You can also enter the PIN. If you leave the field blank, you will be prompted for the PIN each time you access online banking.

Check connection

Open Banking/Account, mark the accounts to be checked. Click the action button and select ‘Check bank access’. If the connection works, the dialog will display the list of available SEPA accounts.

Create journals

Journal for account transactions

In Finance/Configuration/Journals/Journals create a new entry and enter a name, e.g. ‘BankXY bookings’, the type is ‘statement’. Enter in Default Debit Account and Default Credit Account an account from your chart of accounts. In the german SKR04 for example ‘1810’. This account will receive all account movements of your bank account. In sequence use the existing ‘Default Account Journal’.

Statement Journal

In Finance/Configuration/Statements/Statement Journals create a new entry and enter a name, eg ‘BankXY statements’. Enter the other values: Currency: Euro, Journal: the journal created above, Company: your company, Bank Account: the bank account created above, Validation Type: Balance. This journal will contain the bank statements.

Permissions

Account Statement FinTS - edit logindata

allows the user to change the connection settings and the login data to the bank

Account Statement FinTS - online access

allows the user online access to the bank

The following permissions are required for a user to fetch the account statements:

• Account Statement FinTS online access

• Account

In order to allow the automatic generation of bank accounts of the payer/payee the user needs the permission ‘Bank Adminstration’.