About This Automation
Retail and add-on sales reconciliation matches transactions across the point-of-sale system, membership software, and payment processor to ensure all revenue is recorded correctly.
Automation matches transactions across all sources, deduplicates records, and classifies revenue by product category automatically. Staff review only flagged discrepancies and approve the final reconciliation, cutting the process time by more than half.
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How The Automation Works
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The automation is triggered on the first business day of the month or on demand when the finance team begins the close process.
The automation connects to the point-of-sale system, membership software, and payment processor APIs to retrieve all retail and add-on sales transactions for the previous month.
An intelligent matching compares transactions across the three sources by date, amount, customer ID, and description. Duplicates are flagged and removed. Unmatched transactions are isolated for review.
The automation automatically assigns each matched transaction to the correct revenue account (retail product, personal training, class bundle, etc.) based on transaction metadata and learned patterns.
If unmatched transactions or classification confidence is low, the flow branches to a manual review step. Otherwise, it proceeds to journal entry creation.
Unmatched and low-confidence transactions are compiled into a report and sent to the bookkeeper for manual investigation and correction.
Matched and classified transactions are automatically posted as journal entries, organized by revenue account and date.
A summary report showing total revenue by category, discrepancies identified, and adjustments made is automatically sent to the finance manager and.
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QuickBooks Online
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