Take a deposit

A deposit is one transaction on one account. Confirming it moves the balance and gives the receipt.

Who: Savings Officer (tellers have this role). Before you start: The account is Active.

Step by step

1Open the member’s account

Open Savings › Accounts › Active Accounts, search the member and click the account.

Open the member’s account

2Press Deposit

Press the Deposit button across the top. A new transaction opens with the account, the member and the type Deposit filled in.

Press Deposit

3Amount and how it was paid

Type the Amount and pick the Payment Method. Balance After shows what the account will hold.

Amount and how it was paid

4Confirm

Press Confirm. The status becomes Confirmed, the receipt number appears and the balance has moved.

Confirm
Confirm

5Print the receipt

Press Print Receipt and hand the receipt to the member.

Print the receipt
Print the receipt
The deposit receipt

Payment methods

Payment MethodAlso fill in
CashNothing more.
M-PesaM-Pesa Code and M-Pesa Phone.
Bank TransferBank Name and the Payment Reference.
ChequeBank Name, Cheque Number and Cheque Date.
Check-off/Payroll, Standing Order, Internal TransferThe Payment Reference, if there is one.

Other ways a deposit arrives

  • Savings › Quick Actions › New Deposit: the same form, starting from the account box.
  • The member pays by M-Pesa to the paybill: Co-op Bank collections credit the account by themselves.
  • The member tells you about a payment on the portal: portal payments.

If the form stops you

MessageWhat to do
Account is not active.The account is a draft, frozen or closed. Approve, unfreeze or choose another account.
Minimum deposit amount is …The product sets a smallest deposit.
Maximum deposit amount is …The product sets a largest deposit.
Maximum balance of … would be exceeded.The product caps the balance.

Note

A deposit on a Dormant account makes the account Active again.

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