Accounts in Clio Manage are designed to mirror your real-life bank accounts at your financial institution for collecting payment on bills and retaining client funds. You can create two types of accounts in Clio—operating and client accounts. Client funds accounts retain funds in trust for clients. Operating accounts are for daily transactions.
Create new accounts
When creating a new bank account in Clio, you can select whether the account is an operating or client funds account. All non-client funds accounts are operating accounts. Once transactions have been applied to an account, account types should not be changed since this can cause account balancing inaccuracies.
- Go to Accounts.
- Select New account.
- Name your account and select the account type.
- Optional: Check the box for Connect this bank account to online payments and add financial details to connect the account to Clio Payments to accept payments directly from clients. Learn more below.
- Click Create bank account.
Connect or disconnect from online payments
When creating or editing a bank account in Clio, you also have the option to connect the account to Clio Payments. This allows you to collect payment for bills and sync transaction records with your accounting platform.
- Go to Accounts.
- Click Connect to payments. You can also click the down arrow next to Edit and select Connect to online payments.
- Add your bank account numbers. Contact your financial institution for these numbers.
- Click Connect bank account.
- Go to Accounts.
- Click the down arrow next to Edit and select Disconnect from online payments.
- When the warning prompt appears, select Disconnect.
Edit accounts
You can edit basic details of a bank account at any time. Once transactions have been recorded in an account, the account type should not be changed since this can cause account balancing inaccuracies.
- Go to Accounts.
- Click Edit
- Make your changes.
- Click Update Bank Account.
Delete accounts
Important: You can only delete accounts that do not have recorded transactions. If you need to delete an account with transactions, delete all the transactions first.
- Go to Accounts.
- Click the down arrow next to Edit and select Delete.
- When the warning prompt appears, check the confirmation box and select Delete.
Export transactions
Once you have recorded transactions on your bank accounts, you can export transactions from a single bank account. You can also export transactions specific to a single matter or contact from the matter or contact’s Transactions subtab.
- Go to Accounts.
- Select Export transactions.
- Select the bank account, date range, and export format.
- Click Export Transactions.
- Go to the contact or matter’s Transactions subtab.
- Select the operating or client account.
- Optional: Select a date range.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Export.
- Select the file output and click Export.
Transfer funds between accounts
Each contact and matter in Clio have a Transactions subtab where you can record transactions and transfer funds between a contact and any of the contact’s matters or from one bank account to another.
- Go to the contact or matter’s Transactions subtab.
- Click Transfer funds.
- Select Between bank accounts.
- Complete the transfer information.
- Click Record transfer.
- Go to the contact or matter’s Transactions subtab.
- Click Transfer funds.
- Select Between matters.
- Complete the transfer information.
- Click Record transfer.
