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Duplicate Payment Detection: Practical Guide for AP Teams
A practical framework for finding and preventing duplicate payments before close.
By AuditDup Editorial Team · Published 3/20/2026
Duplicate payments often come from process gaps, not bad intent.
Build your workflow around three checks: exact matching, near matching, and fuzzy matching.
Document every review decision so accounting, AP, and audit stakeholders can trace what happened and why.
Start with one monthly export, baseline your duplicate rate, and repeat with the same criteria each cycle.
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