GLOSSARY TERM
Payment Reconciliation
Reconciliation ties three ledgers together: what the platform recorded, what processors settled, what the bank received — surfacing fee drift, missing batches, duplicate credits and FX spreads.
Why gambling reconciliation is hard and vital
Volume (millions of micro-transactions), provider sprawl (each PSP its own file format and timing), and adjustment noise (chargebacks, reserves, refunds) make manual reconciliation collapse early; automation with exception queues is the standard. Unreconciled payment stacks hide real losses — the audit findings that start “we discovered fees had increased in March” are reconciliation gaps wearing their cost. Affiliate-side mirror: commission statements versus payments received deserve the same match discipline.