XPortal Handbook

Finance

Manage invoices, payments, deposits, templates, and commission workflows.

Choose the right financial area

AreaUse it for
InvoicesAmounts charged to students or related parties
PaymentsMoney received and allocated against financial records
DepositsDeposit tracking and reconciliation work
Payment ConfirmationsReviewing and exporting confirmed payment activity
Invoice TemplatesReusable invoice structures
Line Item TemplatesReusable line items and Xero reference mappings
Payment TemplatesReusable payment-plan structures
CommissionsCommission calculations and processing

Record financial activity

Before creating or allocating a transaction, confirm the student, invoice, amount, date, method, and organisation. Add a useful note when the transaction needs context for another staff member.

Payments may use methods such as card, cash, bank transfer, direct debit, Stripe, or another approved method. Select the method that reflects how the money was actually received.

Reconcile and export

Use filters and visible columns to prepare the right financial view. Confirm totals and selected rows before exporting payment confirmations or other records.

Where Xero integration is enabled, review the sync status and resolve rejected or failed items according to your finance process. Do not repeatedly recreate a transaction to work around a sync error.

Maintain templates carefully

Templates make repeated work consistent, but changes can affect future invoices or payment plans. Use clear names, confirm amounts and mappings, and review the result before making a template part of normal operations.

Financial changes need a clear trail

Correct mistakes using your organisation's approved adjustment, reversal, or credit process. Avoid overwriting history in a way that hides what happened.

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