September 22, 2026 – Advance Payment Recognition and Reliable Finance Synchronisation
This release helps finance teams keep Seamless aligned with their accounting system by recognising advance payments automatically and making payment synchronisation and booking more dependable.
1. Advance Payment Recognition and Reconciliation Sync
Component: Finance
Where instalments are invoiced upfront, customers and brokers often pay a future instalment before its due date. Seamless now checks future instalments during its regular payment synchronisation, and any instalment reported as paid by the accounting provider is confirmed automatically, frozen against further date changes, and keeps its invoice and booking references. Unpaid future instalments continue to behave as before, with due dates still editable. A scheduled catch-up synchronisation, run by default at the end of each month and configurable to any schedule, now follows up accounts that the daily process no longer visits. It can also be started on demand from the finance settings screen. Daily synchronisation now stays with an account for three months after its latest collection cut-off, so invoices raised well in advance or late are still followed through to their outcome, and an account whose provider lookup does not respond simply moves to the back of the queue rather than holding up others.
Booking runs are also more dependable. Each run now attempts every outstanding cancellation, records the outcome, and produces a single summary line covering invoices found, cancellations confirmed, instalments booked and run time. The retry limit is configurable per account, and cancelled instalments show as "cancellation pending" until the provider has confirmed them, then move to "payment cancelled" with the confirmed date. After a policy change that removes invoiced instalments, the outstanding cancellations are now processed promptly without waiting for the next instalment to fall due.
Value: Reduces differences between Seamless and the accounting system at month-end and quarter-end reconciliation, cuts manual payment marking and investigation, and gives support and finance teams clear, one-line visibility of synchronisation and booking activity.
Summary:
This release brings advance payments, scheduled reconciliation and more transparent booking runs together to keep Seamless and the accounting system in step, helping finance teams reconcile with greater confidence and far less manual effort.