LedgerMatch
Bank Reconciliation Software for Event Planners & Caterers
Event planners and caterers work with two-stage client payments — a deposit when the event is booked and a final payment before the event date — alongside a stream of vendor payments to venues, florists, photographers, and rental companies. The gap between when payments are booked in QuickBooks and when they appear in the bank can be weeks. LedgerMatch matches every client deposit, vendor payment, and expense against your QuickBooks or Xero ledger in under 10 minutes.
Common reconciliation challenges for event planning businesses
- Client deposits and final payments arrive months apart — both must match the same event file in QuickBooks
- Vendor payments to venues, florists, and rental companies are often made from client deposits — creating pass-through reconciliation complexity
- Refunded deposits appear as both a credit and a debit in the bank statement and must be reconciled against the deposit refund entry in QuickBooks
How LedgerMatch helps
- Exception queue lets you link two-stage client deposits to the same event in QuickBooks — annotate with the event date and client name
- Fuzzy matching handles venue and supplier payment descriptions
- 97% auto-match rate on routine operating expenses
Industry note
Event planners who hold client deposits in their operating account must recognize revenue only when the event is delivered — LedgerMatch's clean reconciliation supports accurate deferred revenue tracking in QuickBooks.
Common banking and accounting tools
- Chase
- Bank of America
- Wells Fargo
- TD Bank
- Regions Bank
- QuickBooks Online
- HoneyBook
- Aisle Planner
- Planning Pod
- Wave
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