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Non-PO Invoice Handling: Coding and Controlling Services Spend

Three-way matching — invoice to purchase order to receipt — is the gold standard of AP control. But a large share of construction spend never touches a purchase order: professional services, utilities, software subscriptions, insurance, equipment rental that was arranged by phone. These non-PO invoices arrive with no commitment to match against and no built-in check on whether they should be paid at all. Here is how to code and control non-PO spend without the structure a PO provides.