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1. Review a rent payment allocation
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2. Build a payment settlement exception register
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3. Rent payment settlement reconciliation
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Review a rent payment allocation
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Updated
2026-09-06
Rent collection
1. Review a rent payment allocation
Follow the payment from the lease charge to the provider result and tenant ledger. Resolve uncertain outcomes and allocation conflicts before another charge, refund, or notice.
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Follow the payment from the lease charge to the provider result and tenant ledger. Resolve uncertain outcomes and allocation conflicts before another charge, refund, or notice.

Payment lifecycle: charge through ledger close

1. Establish amount due

Use the executed agreement, valid amendments, charge rules, credits, and applicable decisions for the correct tenancy and period.

2. Initiate and settle

Give each intended payment action a stable identity and track authorization, provider acceptance, settlement, return, and refund separately.

3. Post and allocate

Tie the receipt to the payer, tenancy, charges, allocation policy, processor batch, bank deposit, and ledger event.

4. Reconcile and communicate

Prove processor, bank, and ledger states, then issue a receipt or balance communication from the reconciled version.

Unknown-state scenario: a payment request timed out

A resident submits $1,200 and sees a timeout. The provider may still have accepted the request. Find the original action identity and inspect provider evidence before offering another attempt. Accepted or pending means no retry; definitive rejection may allow a controlled retry; unresolved means hold, explain the uncertainty, and escalate.

Exception decision table

Provider settled but the ledger is missing the receipt: Post from verified settlement with the original identity; do not charge again.
Receipt is attached to the wrong charge: Review allocation and authorize a traceable correction without changing bank history.
Opening balance is disputed: Prepare a source-to-cutoff bridge and keep missing evidence explicit.

Evidence checklist

Charge source, payer, tenancy, amount, and period agree.
Action identity appears once across requests and retries.
Gross payment, fees, refunds, and net deposit reconcile.
Receipt allocation and balance communication use the reviewed ledger.

Continue with the controlling record

Duplicate charge protection
Rent ledger controls
Receivables aging workflow

Choose the question you need to resolve

Keep payment outcome, posting and an assertion that money is owed separate.
Choose the uncertain event before taking another money action.

The provider response is missing or uncertain.

Provider evidence and action identity reconciled before a possible duplicate retry.
Check the original action outcome

A receipt appears against the wrong charge.

A traceable allocation review with consequential corrections separately authorized.
Review the receipt allocation

A tenant challenges an inherited opening amount.

A source-to-statement comparison that preserves both the tenant question and missing evidence.
Assemble the opening-balance case

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Rent payment settlement reconciliation
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Updated Sep 18, 2026
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Review a rent payment allocation
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Updated Sep 6, 2026
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Build a payment settlement exception register
Troubleshooting
Updated Sep 18, 2026
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