Payables fully integrates with Purchasing and other purchasing systems. This allows you to access your purchasing information online and match invoices to purchase orders or purchase order receipts.

You can use many options in Payables to control purchase order and receipt matching. You can define invoice tolerances which Payables uses when validating your purchase order or receipt matched invoices.

If you use a purchasing system other than Oracle Purchasing and you want to match invoices, you must provide that purchasing information in several Purchasing tables in order to perform the matches. See: Purchase Order Matching Database Tables, Oracle Payables Reference Guide. If you want assistance from Oracle to integrate your purchasing system with Payables, contact Oracle Consulting Services at your local Oracle office.

This discussion includes the following topics:

• Setting Up Your System for Matching

• Integrated Supplier and Purchasing Information

• Purchase Order and Receipt Matching

• Holding Invoices with Invalid Purchase Order Numbers

• Two-, Three-, and Four-way Approval

• Purchase Order Shipment and Distribution Matching

• Payment on Receipt

• Invoice Variances

• Variance Accounts

• Defining Accrual and Variance Accounts

• Closing Purchase Orders

• Receipt Accrual

• Purging Payables and Purchasing Information