Before You Pay Checklist
Buyers, finance teams, and anyone releasing trade payments · Before releasing a deposit, balance, or wire.
- What this checks
- Payment fraud patterns, bank-detail verification, beneficiary matching, and urgent-change red flags.
- When to use
- Before releasing a deposit, balance, or wire.
- Decision it protects
- Releasing a wire, deposit, or balance before beneficiary, milestone, screening, and approval evidence are verified outside the invoice email thread.
How to use: Click evidence chips as you verify them. Tick the row when the control is satisfied.
Counterparty and beneficiary match
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Third-party or intermediary beneficiaries need documented approval in advance.
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Payment basis and approvals
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Fraud and escalation controls
Not the phone number or email in the latest invoice thread.
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