# How to reconcile open positions with payments by another party?
**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285
**Category:** User
**Tags:** accounting
**Created:** [July 12, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285 "2026-07-12T12:17:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Eulengesicht](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/Eulengesicht)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/1 "2026-07-12T12:17:01Z")
Hello,
in our agri cooperative, we have various mismatches between ‘invoiced party’ and 'party having paid". This happened due to
- party duplicates, created by error
- actually one person paying the bill for another person
How can I reconcile payments and receivables between different parties?
Thanks a lot in advance,
EG
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### Author:  [@pokoli](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/pokoli)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2026, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/2 "2026-07-13T10:18:23Z")
> [@Eulengesicht](#):
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> - party duplicates, created by error
In such case you should replace the wrong party with the valid one. See:
[Merging duplicated parties together](https://docs.tryton.org/latest/modules-party/usage.html#merging-duplicate-parties-together)
This will join both payments to the right party and you will be able to reconcile them.
> [@Eulengesicht](#):
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> - actually one person paying the bill for another person
You can use invoice alternative payees for that.
Or you can manually create an account move to move the balances from one party to the other and reconcile both parts.
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### Author:  [@Eulengesicht](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/Eulengesicht)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/3 "2026-07-13T19:27:00Z")
> [@pokoli](#):
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> Merging duplicated parties together
This is great advice, thank you very much. Was really simple to handle - great! 😄
> [@pokoli](#):
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> You can use invoice alternative payees for that.
This sounds like the way to go, but I could not find any instructions on it, neither in docs, nor in the forum. How do I make it work?
Thank you for your effort,
EG
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### Author:  [@pokoli](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/pokoli)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/4 "2026-07-14T08:41:58Z")
> [@Eulengesicht](#):
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> This sounds like the way to go, but I could not find any instructions on it, neither in docs, nor in the forum. How do I make it work?
For now there documentation for alternative payees is still pending to be reviewed. You can have a look it here:
> **[Add more usages to account invoice documentation (!3406) · Merge requests ·...](https://foss.heptapod.net/tryton/tryton/-/merge_requests/3406/diffs#c7c84b39b03f6ced0cf48ef3ec52809732370c2b_46_59)**
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> Business Software Modularity, scalability & security for your business Documentation Contribute
As you are reading a WIP documentation, any comment to improve it will be very welcome!
Thanks
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/5 "2026-07-15T12:35:14Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2026, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/how-to-reconcile-open-positions-with-payments-by-another-party/9285/6 "2026-07-16T12:35:37Z")
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