Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of

Normally, invoices with challenged balances are flagged with a special flag in my systems, so that isn't a problem.

Now, as to partial payments, it is not uncommon at all to get invoices that are short paid. often because of some billing discrepancy. I do not get a lot of those in my systems, but anyone who has service from AT&T is probably familiar with this issue.




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On Sep 30, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My experience is to match from newest back to oldest, with newest being defined newest in the last billing cycle (probably last month) first. The issue almost invariably is a disputed invoice that has been held out for the past 4 to 8 months, depending on your resolution process.

Partial payments are very unlikely in a business setting.

On 9/30/2014 1:16 PM, Roger Harman wrote:
It will post the first matching set looking at oldest first. Next week, unallocated and they have to deal with it manually.

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:30:10 -0400
Subject: Re: Combinations & Permutations..... sort of
From: gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If we can match the entire payment amount, wonderful. If not, it just posts as unallocated and they have to review it. Anything to offload the manual intervention is a plus. There is a lot of volume.

So, are you designing this to be just a "suggestion generator" for
manual review, or will it go ahead and update the database on its own?

What if you have invoices of $10, $15, $20, $30, and $45, and you have
a payment of $60? And what if your system picks ($15 + $45), but then
next week you get a payment of $45? (Meaning that you probably should
have picked $10 + $20 + $30 originally.)

John Y.
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