Source document
The receipt, invoice, statement, or contract that proves a transaction happened and where its numbers came from.
In Solo Superstars
Attach a photo or PDF to any bill, expense, or bank transaction and it stays with the entry. The Document vault holds statements and receipts you upload in bulk; Alison matches them to the transactions they support.
Example
A $340 supplier receipt snapped on your phone becomes the source document for the bill it created, and shows up in the year-end books archive next to that bill.
Codes shown are the defaults a new workspace starts with. Yours may be renamed or renumbered — check Accounting › Chart of accounts. See the full default chart.
Also called
- supporting document
- backup
Related
- Journal entry — The record of one event in your books, written as balanced debit and credit lines. Every invoice, bill, payment, and refund creates one behind the scenes.
- Document match — Linking a bank transaction to the receipt, bill image or check that supports it, from the Document vault.
- Audit trail — The rule that nothing posted is ever edited or deleted. Corrections are new entries that reverse the old one, so both stay visible forever.