Tolerances and result statuses

Matching results are only useful if the team understands what Sifterra is checking and how it decides whether a difference is acceptable.

Understanding Tolerance

Sifterra checks three kinds of differences:

• price
• quantity
• amount

Each one can have both:

• a percentage limit
• an absolute limit

A difference counts as acceptable when it passes either limit for that category. A result is only marked within tolerance when price, quantity, and amount all pass their tolerance checks.

This lets you allow small rounding or quantity differences without treating every minor difference as a failure.

Results You May See

Open Match Results from the document queue entry to see what happened for that invoice.

Common result values are:

• Matched: no difference was found.
• Within Tolerance: differences were found, but they stayed inside the allowed limits.
• Outside Tolerance: one or more differences were larger than allowed.
• Not Matched: the invoice line could not be paired with a purchase order line.
• Order Not Found: no matching purchase order was found for the invoice.

The results page shows the purchase order number, expected amount, actual amount, amount variance, and whether the result is within tolerance.

How To Read The Results In Practice

• Matched usually means the invoice and order lined up cleanly.
• Within Tolerance means there was a difference, but it stayed inside the limits your team has allowed.
• Outside Tolerance means a reviewer should look closely before trusting the document.
• Not Matched means line-level pairing failed even if the order itself was found.
• Order Not Found means the invoice could not be tied to an expected open purchase order.

Use these results as review guidance, not just as labels. The detailed rows are often more useful than the top-level outcome.