Partner bank accounts: purpose, verification, and risk

Updated 10 July 2026

Show whether an IBAN is for payroll or customer refunds, whether KYC is current, and if fraud monitoring raised a flag.

Overview

On each contact’s bank card, Accounting Pro can add classification, compliance, risk, and regulatory fields. This chapter focuses on the first four groups: how the account is used, how you verified it, and how risky it looks.

How it works

Standard Odoo already stores IBAN and bank name. Accounting Pro layers business meaning: Account usage type tells AP whether they may select it for payroll, KYC status tells finance whether payouts are allowed, and Risk level highlights accounts needing extra approval.

Step-by-step guide

Fields table

Field explanations

Each item matches one row in the table above, in the same order.

Account usage type

States the main reason this IBAN exists (payout, collection, refund, payroll, tax, escrow). Helps AP avoid paying a supplier from a payroll-only account.

Priority / default level

Whether this account is the primary one to use, a backup when limits are hit, or a country-specific default when several IBANs exist.

KYC status

Where the bank relationship stands in your onboarding process (not started, in progress, verified, expired). Expired counts often appear on dashboards as a renewal reminder.

Verification source

How you proved the account belongs to the partner (manual check, bank letter, micro-deposit, open banking, document OCR, etc.). Evidence type matters to auditors.

Verification date

The calendar date verification succeeded. Renew when policies require periodic re-verification.

Verified by

The employee who took responsibility for saying the account is good to use. Creates accountability if a fraud case appears later.

Risk level

Your company’s Low/Medium/High/Blocked label for payout risk on this IBAN. Separate from the partner’s overall credit risk-it is about this bank account record.

Fraud flags

Short notes from monitoring (name mismatch, recent IBAN change, etc.) so the next approver sees the context without opening a ticket system.

Change history link

URL or ticket ID pointing to the audit log of IBAN or signatory changes. Update it whenever the account number changes.

Allowed purpose codes

Which regulatory payment purposes may legally be sent to this IBAN (subset of your master purpose-code list). Prevents choosing a wrong purpose on the payment.

Beneficiary type

Whether the holder is an individual, company, government, or NGO-fields some banks and regulators require for screening and reporting.

Regulatory country profile

A reminder flag (standard, high-risk jurisdiction, special reporting) so staff attach the right extra forms-not a legal opinion by itself.

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