Glossary
External receipt number (Metrc)
The POS receipt number a POS sends to Metrc with a sales receipt. Metrc's API can look up a receipt by it, which is how an operations layer joins POS tickets to Metrc receipts when the POS doesn't expose the Metrc receipt ID.
Why it matters for reconciliation: if the POS does not expose the Metrc receipt ID, this number is the join between the two systems. Without it, a ticket has to be matched by guesswork on time and total, which breaks on busy days.
Example: a POS sends ticket number 10442 to Metrc as the external receipt number. The daily match asks Metrc for the receipt with that number, then compares packages, quantities and totals. If the lookup returns nothing, the ticket joins the unmatched list for the day.
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Related terms
- Metrc receipt
The sales record a POS pushes to Metrc for each ticket: packages (by tag), quantities, totals and the state's five tax fields. The thing a POS ticket must match to in daily reconciliation.
- Sales recon
The daily match of POS tickets to state-system receipts (Metrc receipts or NMS2S ticket IDs) on packages, quantities and totals, with a match rate shown per store.