2026-11-02 · Note

Why is a payment screenshot not a confirmed receipt?

FinanPivot

On the path FinanPivot already publishes, a payment screenshot is only a claim waiting to be checked. The principal confirms it against the bank record. The same rule covers a service fee and a project's own receipts: this site does not take payment, and it does not book a screenshot as money received.

Contract, invoice and bank credit checked against each other — An illustration. Not a client file, and it shows no real amount or result.

What a picture usually cannot show

Those points are read from the bank record, not from the picture.

Whether the bank has credited the account
Whether the account is the one named in the contract
Whether the amount and currency match the claim

How a difference note can be listed

Do not write when the money is expected back, and do not write how much came back. We do not promise collection, and we do not sue or pay money out.

The contract or order reference
The invoice or settlement reference
The amount and date the other side says it paid
Whether the bank record shows that credit: seen, or not seen yet
The paper that is still missing

The order of the books

A customer claim is not money received. Only after the principal confirms the bank credit do the books debit cash and credit the contract liability. That is the bookkeeping relationship this site publishes. It is not a result for any one client.

Payment screenshot

Only a claim waiting to be checked
It does not show that the bank has credited the account
It does not show that the account, amount and currency match

Not a receipt

Bank record

The principal checks the bank record
Cash is debited only after that confirmation
The contract liability is credited only after that confirmation