## Verify Purchase Order Fulfilment

# Ensure Accuracy in Every Order

Ottimate’s AI matches line items across POs, invoices, and receipts instantly, so you eliminate errors and protect margins.

## Automatic PO and invoice matching

### Put purchase orders first

Ottimate’s AI matches invoices and receipts to purchase orders line by line. The system flags variances instantly so finance teams catch errors before they release payments. By automating PO matching, teams save time, cut risk, and ensure accuracy.

## Transforming purchase order workflows

### AI-powered PO matching

Inefficient PO processes drain time, create errors, and limit financial visibility. Learn how AI-driven PO matching streamlines procure-to-pay workflows by reducing manual effort, preventing overpayments, strengthening compliance, and integrating seamlessly with your accounting systems.

## Choose the right PO matching for your workflow

### 2- or 3-Way Matching

Ottimate gives you flexibility with two types of purchase order verification. Use 2-way matching to connect POs with invoices, or 3-way matching to reconcile invoices, receipts, and POs for greater accuracy.

## Verify accuracy before you pay vendors

### Flag Variances

Ottimate validates invoices against purchase orders or receipts, confirming quantity, price, and item accuracy. Item fulfilment not met, and pricing differences are flagged instantly. This ensures payments only cover what was delivered, reducing errors and unnecessary spend.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is the difference between 2-way and 3-way matching?

Two-way matching compares data in the PO and invoice to verify accuracy, while 3-way matching compares data in the PO, invoice, and receipt. While both methods are useful, 3-way matching improves accuracy and better protects you from overpaying and fulfilling fraudulent invoices.

### What is PO verification?

Purchase order (PO) matching, also known as invoice matching, refers to the process of cross-referencing an invoice with its corresponding PO and/or receipt to verify that the invoice total aligns with the line items on the PO and/or receipt. It’s an important step in the invoice approval process, helping your team avoid fraudulent invoices and payment errors.

### Why use Ottimate's purchase order verification?

Manually matching invoices to corresponding POs and receipts is a tedious process for AP teams. Ottimate’s PO Match tool automatically matches your PO and/or receipt to the correct invoice and compares the line-item data to ensure that your order has been met. It also provides rules-based workflows to automate the process further. This accelerates your PO processing time, eliminating manual effort and improving your overall match rates, to free your team to focus on more important tasks.

## Better control over AP

Use Ottimate PO validation to catch errors early, stop overpayments, and give finance teams stronger controls in AP.