How to Combine Revenue From Multiple Business Bank Accounts Automatically

Two businesses, three checking accounts, a savings account and a payment app: that is a normal setup, and it makes a simple question hard. How much did I actually bring in this month? This guide shows how to combine revenue from multiple business bank accounts automatically, and how to keep the total honest.

1.List every account money lands in

Start with a quick inventory: every checking account, savings account, card and payment app, and which business each belongs to. Include the odd ones, like the personal account an old client still pays into. Anything you leave off is revenue you won’t see.

2.Connect them with a read-only bank connection

Exporting statements every month works until it doesn’t. A read-only connection does it for you: you sign in to your bank through a provider like Plaid, approve access, and the app receives transactions every day. It can see; it cannot move money. Most banks and credit unions in the US are supported.

3.Label each account by business

Once connected, tell the tool which business owns each account. This is what lets you see each business on its own and all of them together. If one account serves two businesses, that is a sign to open a separate account; splitting a shared account transaction by transaction rarely stays accurate.

4.Count transfers once, and leave out what isn’t revenue

This is where most homemade totals go wrong. Not every deposit is revenue:

A good tool recognizes transfers between accounts you own and counts them once. Check its rules in the first week, and fix anything it got wrong; most tools learn from your corrections.

5.Watch out for payment apps and card processors

If customers pay you through a card processor or payment app, the deposit in your bank is usually a payout: several payments bundled together, often with processing fees already taken out. Two things follow:

• Your bank shows less than you sold. The difference is fees, which are a cost, not missing revenue. If you need gross sales, check the processor’s own reports.
• One deposit can cover many customers and several days. That is fine for a monthly total, but it won’t tell you which client paid. Invoices or the processor’s reports fill that gap.

Refunds and chargebacks come out of later payouts, so a quiet week can look worse than it was. Over a full month, it evens out.

Example: combine revenue from multiple business bank accounts

Here is one month for an owner with a consulting business, a small online shop and a duplex. Five accounts, two banks, one card processor:

Example numbers. Adding every deposit would show $36,220, which overstates revenue by about 17%.

Mistakes that make combined totals wrong

• Adding balances instead of revenue. Balances move with transfers, loans and timing. Revenue is what customers paid.
• Forgetting an account. The old savings account or the second payment app is exactly where surprises hide.
• Mixing personal and business accounts in one total. Keep your household separate from the businesses.
• Never checking the rules. Spend ten minutes in the first week confirming what the tool calls revenue.

Set it up in an afternoon

1. Make the list of every account and the business it belongs to (15 minutes).
2. Connect each bank through a read-only connection. Most take two or three minutes, longer if your bank asks for a second login step.
3. Label every account with its business, and put personal accounts in their own space.
4. Review the first month of transactions. Mark transfers between your accounts, loans, owner deposits and refunds. Good tools remember your choices.
5. Set a goal for the year, per business or combined, so the total means something.
6. Pick a weekly time to look, and put it on your calendar.

What about credit cards and loans?

Business credit cards matter for spending, not revenue: purchases on the card are costs, and paying off the card is a transfer, so don’t count those purchases a second time when the payment leaves your checking account. Loans work the other way: the money arriving is not revenue, and repayments are partly interest (a cost) and partly principal. Connect cards and loans too if you want profit and a full picture, but keep them out of the revenue total.

How often to look, and what to look for

Daily is too often for most owners; monthly is too late. Once a week works. Each time, check three things:

• The combined total against your pace. If the year’s goal is $240,000, you need about $20,000 a month across everything.
• Which business moved it. One strong business can hide a weak one; the per-business view shows which is which.
• Anything unusual. A deposit you don’t recognize, a regular client who didn’t pay, a payout that seems small.

At month end, take two extra minutes to compare the combined total with your accountant’s numbers. Small differences are normal, since books record some things differently, but a big gap usually means a missing account or a transfer counted as revenue. Fix it once, and the tool remembers it for every month after.

Share it with the people who need it

Once the combined view exists, it is worth sharing. Your accountant can use it to see activity without asking for statements. A business partner can see their company and the total. A manager can see only the business they run. Look for read-only access and per-business permissions, so everyone sees what they should and nothing more.

If you prefer to do it by hand

A spreadsheet works for one or two accounts. Once a month, download each account’s transactions as CSV, paste them into one sheet with a column for the business, delete transfers, refunds, loans and owner deposits, and total the rest. It takes about an hour a month and goes stale quickly, which is why most owners with more than two accounts end up connecting them.

6.Look at one total, every week

With everything connected and labeled, your combined revenue updates on its own. Use it: once a week, compare the total with your goal for the year, see which business moved it, and look at recurring income you can count on next month.

Yegly was built for exactly this. It connects each business’s accounts read-only through Plaid, keeps every business separate, counts transfers between your own accounts once, and tracks the combined total against a Year-End Goal. It also finds recurring income and bills automatically. Unlimited bank accounts are included on every plan.

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— The Yegly team