When you receive a large delivery of goods recorded on a single purchase order, you may complete payment of the whole order with a series of supplier invoices. In this case, you match the entire invoice amount against part of the purchase order amount, leaving the outstanding order amount open for matching against subsequent invoices. The system lets you partially match in this way; you can save and close the matching.

Partial matching generates a posting for only the amount of the purchase order that has been invoiced. The amount is calculated as: