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Feature · Evidence and Reconciliation

Evidence and Reconciliation

Trace operation outcomes, preserve commercial decisions and resolve discrepancies against the parent quote.

OverviewReceipt Exceptions
Retail & E-Commerce CPQ · Evidence and Reconciliation

Receipt Exceptions

Operation receipts

New
ParentActionExpected revisionOccurred atFailure reasonEffect references
QTS-88000ACT-43547004 OctCut to lengthER-108
QTS-72397ACT-45668005 OctWeld frameER-664
QTS-94623ACT-79975024 OctDrill and tapER-136
QTS-47589ACT-66993005 OctDeburrER-585
QTS-21465ACT-41275011 OctAssembleER-264
6 of 6 records
ACT-435Operation receipts · OR-68660
Failed
ParentQTS-88000
Expected revision470
Occurred at04 Oct
Failure reasonCut to length
Effect referencesER-108
Example screen with sample data

What you can do

Keep the reason and result with the offer

A busy commerce team needs to explain what happened after a pricing or handoff request. Operation receipts retain the action, expected revision and result state under the parent quote. Review decisions retain the reviewer and reason. Attachments supply the documents needed to understand the customer request or acceptance.

Operations Overview brings open and accepted quote value together with current review demand and persisted operation exceptions. It helps the team find work that deserves attention. The underlying receipt still supplies the detail needed to investigate a disputed outcome, including its failure reason and effect references.

Reconciliation compares a recorded claim with the quote, its lines and its review decisions. A receipt reaches Completed when real evidence supports completion. A discrepancy is marked as needing review, with a concrete explanation. The investigation should preserve the original commercial trail so a later reviewer can reconstruct the decision.

How the work is organized

  • Supporting documents. Quote Specialist attaches evidence to the relevant quote and chooses Internal or Shared visibility. The upload time and uploader identify how the file entered the record.
  • Operation outcomes. Start with receipts that are pending, have failed or need review. The action and expected revision keep the investigation tied to a particular request.
  • Controlled correction. Quote Specialist requests a correction within authorized scope. Pricing Reviewer authorizes a compensating action for executed accepted business, preserving the earlier acceptance and decision evidence.

What to agree during setup

Agree which documents support a customer request, a pricing exception and acceptance. Use evidence type consistently so Auditor can find the right material without opening every file. Define when a file is suitable for sharing and who checks its content before that choice is made.

Name the person who follows up on an outcome that needs review. Agree how the team distinguishes a correction to unexecuted draft work from a change affecting accepted business. An accepted offer needs a controlled compensating action where appropriate; the original quote and its receipt history must remain available to explain the earlier result.

Check the handoff on an actual case

Rehearse a Pending receipt whose referenced effect cannot be confirmed. Auditor compares the claim with the parent quote and review decision. The reconciliation result should explain the discrepancy and route it for review, without running the commercial action again merely to obtain a successful result.

Next, use an accepted quote where the customer asks to change the agreed quantity. Quote Specialist requests the correction and Pricing Reviewer decides the compensating action. Inspect the evidence after that decision: the original accepted terms must still be understandable. Finally, open a shared attachment as an authorized participant and confirm that an unrelated organization cannot gain access through the same parent link.

What your team sees

  • Receipt Exceptions — Failed operations and outcomes needing review, with the recorded reason and affected quote.
  • Shared Evidence — Attachments marked for sharing, subject to the participant’s authorized scope.
  • Review History — The decision trail used when checking a receipt or an accepted-scope correction.

Follow the work through

Use correction and reconciliation and agree evidence access in roles.

What it keeps track of

Data model
Operation receipts
Stable operation receipts recording action, expected revision and result state
Record attachments
Uploaded evidence files with visibility and evidence type
Review decisions
Independent review decisions with source revision and operation key
Quotes
Customer quotes with lifecycle, validity, revision and USD net amount
Quote lines
Priced quote lines with quantity, unit price, discount, cost and net line USD
Team members
Authenticated platform identities with organization membership and role scope

Who uses it

Permissions
Auditor
Investigates evidence without changing commercial decisions.
Quote Specialist
Provides documents and requests authorized corrections.
Pricing Reviewer
Decides compensation for executed accepted scope.

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