# Fishbowl: Payment export restricted until fulfillment

> Warns that enabling this setting will hold payment exports until sales orders are completely fulfilled, potentially causing timing mismatches with your bank records.

## What it means
When you enable this option, Fishbowl will not export payments on sales orders until those orders reach complete fulfillment. This means a customer payment might hit your bank today, but Fishbowl won't export it to your accounting system until the full order ships and is received. The result: a timing mismatch between what your financial institution shows and what your accounting records show.

## What to check
- Whether your sales orders typically ship in full or are fulfilled in stages (partial shipments)
- Whether your accounting workflow relies on payment dates or order fulfillment status
- Your accountant's stance on this timing gap and reconciliation impact
- Any existing partial orders that would be affected by this change

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*From Israel Lopez Consulting (ILC). Custom Fishbowl Inventory integrations and software, and Fishbowl experts since 2015. Written by Israel Lopez. Questions about this topic, or want to reach the people who wrote it? Visit https://israellopezconsulting.com/contact*