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Donation/ticket sales reconciliation

Purpose

1.1 Automate donation and ticket sales reconciliation for Country Parks in the public park sector, ensuring all revenue streams—online, POS, and physical—are consolidated, matched, and reported.
1.2 Automate the extraction, aggregation, and matching of sales/donation records, payment processor data, and financial ledgers for error-free reporting and compliance.
1.3 Automate alerts for discrepancies, generate reconciliation reports, and auto-update finance systems for audit readiness and faster monthly close cycles.
1.4 Automating audit trails with transaction-level detail for streamlined reporting to stakeholders, auditors, and management.

Trigger Conditions

2.1 New transaction record is added in ticketing or donation platforms.
2.2 Scheduled end-of-day, end-of-week, or end-of-month automated batch processing.
2.3 Finance team initiates manual reconciliation automation.
2.4 Incoming fund settlement notification from the payment gateway.

Platform Variants

3.1 Stripe
• Feature/Setting: Payment Intents API — automate pulling transaction data and settlement reports programmatically.
3.2 PayPal
• Feature/Setting: Transaction Search API — automate retrieval of donation and sales history for reconciliation cycles.
3.3 Square
• Feature/Setting: ListPayments endpoint — automate extraction of sales and fees for automated reporting.
3.4 Ticketmaster
• Feature/Setting: GET /events API — automate download of ticket sales per event and sync for reconciliation.
3.5 Eventbrite
• Feature/Setting: /v3/orders/ endpoint — automate fetching order-level donation/ticket records for comparisons.
3.6 WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API /orders and /refunds endpoints — automate collection of sales and refunds for cross-checking.
3.7 Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Orders API — automate data pulls for ticket/donation products for automated matching.
3.8 QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Reports API — automate uploading and reconciling sales against financial ledgers.
3.9 Xero
• Feature/Setting: BankStatementLines API — automate posting matched transactions into general ledger.
3.10 Sage Intacct
• Feature/Setting: GLPOSTING API — automate reconciliation report uploads and general ledger sync.
3.11 NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Transactions API — automate import and matching of donation/sales transactions automatically.
3.12 Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Data Export Service — automate regular imports of ticketing/donation data for reconciliation routines.
3.13 Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Google Sheets API — automate export/import of data, flag mismatches real-time.
3.14 Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Data Loader or Salesforce Integration API — automate pulling sales/donations to CRM for automated reporting.
3.15 Zendesk Sell
• Feature/Setting: Deals API — automate exporting ticket/donation deals and matching with payment records.
3.16 FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: Invoices endpoint — automate invoice and payment matching for audit trails.
3.17 Zoho Books
• Feature/Setting: SalesOrders API — automate syncing ticket/donation sales and reconcile against ingested payments.
3.18 GoFundMe
• Feature/Setting: Platform API — automate extracting donation flows for back-office reconciliation.
3.19 Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: eCommerce API — automate donation confirmation event triggers for reconciliation.
3.20 Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Data connector — automate pulling finalized reconciliation reports into visualization dashboards.

Benefits

4.1 Automates tedious and manual data entry, reducing human error and saving finance team workload.
4.2 Automates end-to-end audit trails and ensures full regulatory compliance for public entities.
4.3 Automatedly identifies, flags, and resolves payment mismatches across all systems in real time.
4.4 Accelerates month-end and year-end close by automating matching and reporting processes.
4.5 Centralizes, unifies, and automates reconciliation for all ticket and donation channels, improving transparency.
4.6 Enhances stakeholder reporting through automated, always up-to-date reconciliation dashboards.

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