Requirement evaluated: Two-way matching for service POs where no goods receipt applies
For a $120M services company where roughly 55% of invoices are PO-backed but no warehouse receiving workflow exists, Ivalua's 'Smart Matching' engine within the Invoice to Pay module is the relevant mechanism. Smart Matching matches invoice content against Purchase Orders, Contracts, Blank Orders, and/or Goods Receipts before confirming tax treatment and allocating the invoice item to a budget or cost center. The 'and/or Goods Receipts' construction is load-bearing: it confirms the receipt leg is optional, not hardcoded. …
Limitations: Ivalua's help center documentation (help.ivalua.com) did not surface an explicit admin control labeled 'service PO match profile' or a per-PO-type toggle to formally disable the GR leg; the two-way capability for service POs is structurally supported by the 'and/or' matching architecture and the platform's no-code conf …