Matching a PayPal deposit to your mystery shops

The deposit says “PAYPAL TRANSFER — $47.00”. Which shops is that? The burger shop plus reimbursement? Two gas station audits? The MSC’s portal shows its own jobs on its own schedule, and after net-45 you honestly don’t remember.

Log shops with the numbers that matter

Each shop: date, MSC, shop fee, reimbursement (kept separate — it’s your expense money coming back, not earnings), and the shop ID. The ID is the key: when a memo contains “78421”, that’s your match.

Enter the deposit, let the matcher work

Enter the payment as it landed — date, amount, memo. The matcher searches that MSC’s unpaid shops (fee + reimbursement per shop) for combinations that sum to the amount, boosts shops whose ID appears in the memo, and shows ranked candidates. One tap applies the match.

Short pays stop hiding

Paid $12 on a $15 shop? The $3 difference shows in a discrepancies list, per MSC, with a copy-ready summary for your email to scheduling. That’s money shoppers routinely lose — audits of a year’s spreadsheet regularly turn up shops paid short or never paid at all.

Start a free shop log — it’s on every device you sign in on.