Trust Account Clerk

Reconciles the trust account every month — fetches the statements, allocates receipts to matters, proves trust creditors against trust funds, and hands you what will not balance.

Trust and section 86 reconciliation 24 systems From R7 500 / month Up to 1 500 trust transactions a month included

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What the Trust Account Clerk actually does

The whole job, in the order it happens — not a feature list.

1

Fetches the trust statements

Signs in to the bank every morning and pulls the trust account, the investment accounts opened for individual matters, and the business account alongside them. The business accounts with no working feed included.

2

Normalises them

Turns each bank's CSV, OFX and PDF layout into one consistent set of transactions, with the duplicates from overlapping date ranges removed.

3

Allocates to matters

Matches each receipt to the matter it belongs to, from the reference, the payer and the amount against what that matter is expecting. A deposit it cannot place is never guessed at.

4

Proves the balance

Builds the trust creditors listing and proves it against the trust funds held — the reconciliation the Act actually asks for, not just a bank reconciliation with a different account number.

5

Flags what will not balance

Unallocated deposits, matters in deficit, transfers with no fee note behind them, and balances that have sat unmoved long enough to need a decision.

6

Prepares it for signature

Assembles the month-end reconciliation, the supporting listing and the exception schedule, ready for the person who has to sign it and for the auditor who will ask for it.

What it brings to you

It reconciles and proves; it never moves money. Every transfer out of trust is a person's decision with their name against it.

  • A deposit into trust it cannot allocate to a matter
  • Any transfer from trust to business — always, without exception
  • A matter whose trust balance would go into deficit
  • A fee transfer with no invoice raised against the matter
  • A trust balance that has not moved in the period you set
  • A trust creditors total that does not agree to the funds held

What it puts on your dashboard

A digital worker you cannot measure is one you cannot trust. Every run is logged, and the numbers below are reported without being asked for.

  • Trust transactions allocated, per account, per day
  • Auto-allocation rate, and the references that keep defeating it
  • Days since each trust account last reconciled
  • What would not allocate, grouped by why
  • Unallocated trust funds, and how long they have been sitting
  • Whether the monthly reconciliation ran when it was due

The systems it works in

24 pre-built connections, ready on day one. Where a system publishes an API, the digital worker uses it directly from the cloud.

South African banks

Legal practice management

Ledgers

Where statements land

Property and conveyancing

Reporting

And the systems with no API at all

Desktop legal practice-management systems and business banking portals with no feed — the bot signs in and works them on your machine.

This is the part a cloud-only tool cannot do. The Automize bot runs on your own machine, so anything a person can open, it can work in — the desktop accounting package, the bank portal, the supplier site with no integration.

Where it runs, and what never leaves

On your machine

The bot is installed where the work happens, so it can reach the systems that never got an API.

Credentials stay put

Passwords live in your operating system's own keychain and never sync to us. We hold the steps, not the secrets.

POPIA and GDPR by design

Client financial data is processed locally. Servers are in AWS Ireland and hold process definitions and execution logs.

Every step audited

Step-by-step logs, screenshots and timestamps for every run — and a record of who approved what.

Questions about the Trust Account Clerk

No. It has no payment authority and is not built to acquire one. It reconciles, allocates and proves; every transfer out of trust — including a fee transfer you make every month — is released by a person who holds that authority today.
No. It produces the reconciliation and the supporting listing your auditor asks for, on time and in one place, which is usually where the annual audit gets expensive. The audit opinion is theirs.
It stays unallocated and it stays visible, with the statement line and the worker's best guess attached. An unidentified deposit quietly allocated to the wrong matter is the failure this role exists to prevent, so it never guesses.

Works well alongside

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Put a Trust Account Clerk to work in 7 days

A trust reconciliation is a fixed monthly obligation with an audit behind it. Most firms do it late, and the ones that do it on time have somebody senior doing it.