Positive Pay: Check Match and Payee Match
The Federal Reserve payment systems study documents check fraud as a persistent category of commercial loss. SinglePoint positive pay mitigates the risk by matching presentments against an issued file. The Company Administrator uploads each issued-check batch — check number, issue date, amount — and SinglePoint rejects any presentment that does not match. Payee-match positive pay extends validation to the name printed on the payee line, catching altered-payee schemes that number-amount matching alone misses.
Mismatches surface in the SinglePoint positive pay exception queue before 11am Central Time. A Company Administrator clicks pay, return or return-with-reason on each exception. No decision by 2pm CT defaults to a configurable rule — typically return — to protect the account.


