I use Xero for my consultancy company's book-keeping. My accounts from a couple of months ago are locked (due to submitting a VAT (UK sales tax) return). I have an unreconciled bank transaction within that period. If I try to reconcile it, Xero says:
Error: Your accounts are locked by your adviser up until 31 May 2018. Your action must occur after this date.
Does anyone know how to deal with this? Thanks.
We've just had the same problem.
tl;dr - It seems you have to unlock the transaction period to reconcile. The danger here is that may affect reports you have already made, so you should probably talk to your [advisor/accountant/person who set the lock date]
Long version: The Xero help pages identify a similar situation here where lock dates affect allocating credits to invoices outside of the lock period.
For us, we had had a bank feed transaction dated 30th June and a supplier invoice dated 1st July. In future, I'm going to make sure we've reconciled everything before we need to lock dates for year end.
To reconcile, I had to visit General Settings > Financial Settings, at the bottom of the page are two types of lock date. I set these to a date before my unreconciled transaction (28th June), reconcile, then set them back.
