Receipt matching
In accounting, receipt matching means pairing a card transaction with the receipt that evidences it. Both queues stay visible: transactions with no receipt, and receipts with no transaction.
Authority: Internal control — SOX §404. Sources
The lesson that teaches this
From the free founder back-office course, taught on one company's books, with exercises to work it yourself.
Receipt matching, in use
Quoted from the document that use the word: what it does to an interface, in the spec's own words.
A vendor bill carries an expense sublist (account, amount, memo, segments) and an item sublist (item, quantity, rate, receipt matching).
Ledger APIs: Xero, QuickBooks Online, NetSuite — The differences
What it is not called
Each of these means something else. Use one here and an accountant reading the product notices.
- three-way match (purchase order, receipt, invoice)
- reconciliation
Nearby in the catalog
No component names this concept outright. These sit in the same part of the system.
Also in Payables
Defined in Lexicon. This page is generated from that document, so the two can't disagree.