Paddle Billing payout mismatch: filter by remittance reference

A Paddle Billing payout can contain movements associated with older transactions. To explain one payout, filter the reconciliation report by remittance_reference, not simply the month when transactions were last updated. The default updated-date population can omit a real payout component.

Official reference.

Build the payout report

1. Open Reports → Build reports → Build report and choose the payout reconciliation report.
2. For one payout, select remittance_reference and the actual remittance. The documented remittance_reference, transaction_updated_at and balance_movement_date filters are mutually exclusive, not simultaneous intersecting filters.
3. Choose Generate and use the emailed download. Retain the original and filter context.
4. Keep every included movement and sum balance_movement_in_balance_currency, with its currency. Do not replace the remittance population with only customer transactions updated in the current month.

Paddle’s payout-reconciliation specification defines the filters and amount field; its report-generation guide describes the download process.

For one remittance, retain all included rows and sum balance_movement_in_balance_currency. Transaction currencies can differ; their values are not a valid combined payout total. Rebates and SWIFT-fee rows also affect the bridge. Keep them rather than selecting only customer transactions.

Tie the remittance to the supporting documents

Authorized Admin or Finance access can obtain payout documents. A remittance may comprise one or two reverse invoices according to the actual US and rest-of-world entities involved. A monthly statement can exist even without a payout; it is not independent proof of cash sent. Keep actual entity and document identities with the remittance reference. Source: payout-document and reverse-invoice scope.

The synthetic remittance exercise gives balance-currency movements of 500, 40, 5 and −10: total 535. The 40 component belongs to a transaction updated before the selected month but moved in this remittance. An updated-month filter incorrectly yields 495. Summing foreign customer-currency amounts is rejected separately.

The fixture supplies the USD balance unit and separately identifies EUR and GBP transaction currencies; it does not supply a conversion rate or assign each component to a specific fee type. Do not invent either from the signed values.

Verify the bank currency and arrival

Balance currency need not equal bank currency. Obtain evidenced conversion and bank charges where needed rather than forcing the report sum to the bank line. Retain reference, documents, movement currency and bank observation. Missing conversion or unexplained components remain open. The exercise verifies its supplied membership and signed sum, not a live Paddle export, fee schedule or transfer.

Related task.

For a PDF-only bank source, download LocalExtract. It processes one PDF locally to date,description,amount CSV; it does not access platform accounts or synchronize accounting records.

Official sources and scope

Documentation checked October 16, 2026. Official reference 1 — lead-01 · Official reference 2 — lead-10 · Official reference 3 — paddle-generate