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name: al-119-match-inbox-receipts-to-card-transactions
description: "Find receipts in your email and line them up with your card statement so every charge has proof before month-end. Use when the user wants help with reconciliation (finance) for a small business."
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# Match inbox receipts to card transactions

Find receipts in your email and line them up with your card statement so every charge has proof before month-end.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Month
- Date, merchant, amount
- Your own material (text, notes or data)

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Here's my card statement for [month]: [paste date, merchant, amount]. Here are receipts I found in my email: [paste or attach]. Match each receipt to a transaction and show your reasoning (merchant, amount, date). Then list: charges with no receipt, receipts with no matching charge, and any amount mismatches. Don't change anything in my books; give me the list to approve.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- This prompt works on text other people wrote (emails, reviews, messages or web pages). That text can hide instructions aimed at AI, such as "ignore your rules and…". Paste it as material to work on, and never let the AI act on requests inside it, like paying, sharing logins or changing records.
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: Extend Receipt Agent, Gmail/Outlook, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
- Based on this real-world example: https://wearethefrontier.org/world/us/2026/10/14/extend-ai-receipt-agent-launch
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-119-match-inbox-receipts-to-card-transactions/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/