Upgrade Your Payout Reconciliation using Disbursement Reconciliation Report

Hello everyone. In this video, we will walk through common challenges merchants face while reconciling payouts and how the new dispersement reconciliation report addresses them. Firstly, let's understand who is this report for. Are you a PayPal merchant who opted for automated fund settlements to bank daily and rely on settlement reports for payout reconciliation? Then this is for you. Here are some of the common challenges we have heard from merchants. — What is a transaction event code? What does it even mean? How much was credited to me per transaction basis? How do I map transactions into my accounting system? How do I trace and reconcile failed disbburusments? While legacy reports provided important data, they often required decoding internal identifiers, referencing multiple files, and performing manual calculations to understand what was settled. We heard you. We understand reconciliation needed to be simpler, clearer and more transparent. Now let's take a look at how these challenges have been addressed and simplified in the new dispersement reconciliation report. Firstly, we have replaced the transactional event code and clearly defined the record types and subtype fields. This makes it much easier to understand the nature of transaction and map it accurately into your accounting books without needing to decode the internal identifiers. Secondly, we have simplified the transactional level reporting by providing complete financial visibility at transactional level. You can now clearly see the gross amount, the fees charged and the exact net amount credited to you. The transactional level net settlement amount detail eliminates the guesswork and reduces reconciliation effort. We have also enhanced the failed dispersement reporting. Each failed disbbursement record now includes the related record ID that links back to the original payout transaction returned by the bank account. — The original bank reference ID provided under reference type and reference ID help you identify the list of transactions that contributed to the original payout. This allows you to easily trace the returned payout, identify the original dispersement, and accurately account for its updated status. Beyond addressing these key challenges, the new report provides full stack reporting, financial visibility, and supports multiple billing models. This means you can use a single report for your payout reconciliation, transactional level reconciliation and fee reconciliation. The result is more streamlined, transparent and reliable reconciliation experience. To summarize, the new dispersement reconciliation report provides end to-end payout transparency, gap aligned clarity and automation ready data, delivering a faster, more accurate and scalable reconciliation experience. To see a detailed walkthrough of the dispersement reconcilation report, including how to use it step by step, watch the next video linked here and also refer to the specification documentation available in developer portal. If you need support during your transition, our team is here to help. We are looking forward to making your reconciliation experience simpler and more transparent.