Three Way Match

Three-way supplier invoice matching MCP server

Check a supplier invoice against its purchase order and delivery receipts in Claude or another MCP client. This local server compares each exact SKU, unit price and billed quantity with the PO, cumulative accepted deliveries and quantities you say were already invoiced. It catches offsetting SKU mistakes even when the invoice and PO grand totals agree, and returns the source values behind every exception. Supply structured documents; this server does not extract PDFs, perform OCR, connect to an ERP, post payments or approve an invoice.

Built by theluckystrike. MIT. Support: [email protected].

Try it before installing

Run the free three-way matching example in your browser. Edit the synthetic PO, receipt and invoice fields to see per-SKU exceptions. The example runs locally in your browser without an account or uploads. Product details and installation options.

Both servers include their full diagnostics and CSV evidence for free. Pro removes the limit of three saved reports; the $39 bundle covers both. Neither tool approves payment or retrieves missing accounting history.

Install

Claude Desktop: download three-way-match.mcpb v0.22.8 and open it. SHA-256: 6397928ec44ea9d5c406a66f4eb7aa9a2f34f5731bf8ef9972fadfdac882f040. Other clients can use the source instructions below.

Requires Node.js 18 or newer. Build from the source checkout; the npm package is not published. No API key or account is required to run the free tools.

git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers.gitcd mcp-serversnpm installnode scripts/bootstrap-timezone.mjsnpm run build --workspace @theluckystrike/mcp-licensenpm run build --workspace @theluckystrike/mcp-three-way-match

Use the absolute path to servers/three-way-match/dist/index.js in your checkout. The server speaks stdio; your MCP client starts it. Do not put an HTTP URL in its place.

Claude Desktop: merge this entry into mcpServers in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS (or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows), replacing /absolute/path with your checkout location:

{  "mcpServers": {    "three-way-match": {      "command": "node",      "args": ["/absolute/path/mcp-servers/servers/three-way-match/dist/index.js"]    }  }}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add three-way-match -- node /absolute/path/mcp-servers/servers/three-way-match/dist/index.js

Cursor: merge the same JSON into .cursor/mcp.json in your project or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Restart your client, call license_status, then run the example below. A tools/list result alone does not verify matching.

For Claude Desktop, download three-way-match.mcpb and open it to install. SHA-256: 6397928ec44ea9d5c406a66f4eb7aa9a2f34f5731bf8ef9972fadfdac882f040. This is a local stdio server; no hosted endpoint is available.

Tools

Input contract

One PO and one current supplier invoice per call. There is no fuzzy matching: SKU, supplier and PO references are exact, case-sensitive strings, with no surrounding whitespace or control characters. Document references and SKUs are 1–120 characters. PO, invoice and receipt document references must be distinct. Duplicate SKUs within a document or within prior_invoiced, and duplicate receipt references, produce invalid; ambiguous rows are excluded from comparison. Repeated SKUs across different receipt documents are expected and accumulate.

Quantities are whole units from 0 to 1,000,000,000; PO and invoice line quantities must be positive. Fractional quantities are rejected. accepted_quantity and rejected_quantity are disjoint counts, not a gross count and its subset. Rejected units never increase the quantity available to invoice. Receipts must carry valid YYYY-MM-DD dates; include only receipts relevant to this check. Dates are evidence, not an automatic invoice-date cutoff.

Every monetary input is an integer minor-unit amount from 0 to Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (9,007,199,254,740,991). For USD, 100 means $1.00; for a zero-decimal currency use its own minor units. Supply the uppercase three-letter currency code on both PO and invoice. No currency conversion or currency-code catalog lookup occurs. Unit prices must match exactly, with no tolerance. Money products and totals use integer arithmetic; unsafe results produce invalid with unsafe_money_arithmetic, never a rounded amount.

invoice.total_minor is the total of the supplied goods lines. There are no implicit tax, freight, discount, rounding or credit adjustments. Represent agreed charges as explicit priced PO/invoice SKUs and appropriate receipt evidence, or prepare an excluding-adjustments goods total before calling. Do not supply an all-in invoice total while omitting its adjustments.

prior_invoiced is required, even when empty. Supply the complete cumulative quantities previously billed for each SKU against this PO, excluding this current invoice. [] explicitly asserts none. Current plus prior quantities must fit both accepted receipts and the PO. Saving reports does not update this history or detect repeated invoice references across checks; incorrect or omitted history can allow repeat billing to go undetected. Reports are evidence snapshots, not an accounting ledger.

Bounds apply equally to free and Pro: 1–500 PO lines, 1–500 invoice lines, up to 500 prior SKUs, and up to 100 receipts of 1–500 lines each. An empty receipts array is valid and produces missing-receipt exceptions for billed PO SKUs. Empty or malformed references, blank/missing SKUs, decimals, unsafe input numbers and invalid dates are rejected as input errors. Unknown SKUs are explicit unordered_sku exceptions.

Equal totals can hide SKU errors

Call three_way_match with:

{  "po": {    "reference": "PO-1", "supplier": "Supply Co", "currency": "USD",    "lines": [      {"sku": "A", "quantity": 10, "unit_price_minor": 100},      {"sku": "B", "quantity": 10, "unit_price_minor": 100}    ]  },  "receipts": [{    "reference": "GR-1", "po_reference": "PO-1", "supplier": "Supply Co", "date": "2026-10-16",    "lines": [      {"sku": "A", "accepted_quantity": 5, "rejected_quantity": 0},      {"sku": "B", "accepted_quantity": 15, "rejected_quantity": 0}    ]  }],  "invoice": {    "reference": "INV-1", "po_reference": "PO-1", "supplier": "Supply Co", "currency": "USD",    "lines": [      {"sku": "A", "quantity": 10, "unit_price_minor": 100},      {"sku": "B", "quantity": 10, "unit_price_minor": 100}    ],    "total_minor": 2000  },  "prior_invoiced": [],  "save": false}

The report has status: "exceptions", despite equal 2,000-minor-unit PO/invoice totals and equal aggregate quantities. SKU A has invoiced_above_accepted (10 billed, 5 accepted); SKU B has accepted_above_order (15 accepted, 10 ordered). Changing invoice unit prices to 90 for A and 110 for B also preserves the grand total but produces two unit_price_mismatch issues.

Partial deliveries can match

Using the same PO, supply a receipt containing only A with accepted_quantity: 4, rejected_quantity: 2. Invoice only A with quantity: 4, unit_price_minor: 100, total_minor: 400, and keep prior_invoiced: []. This returns matched. A has six units still undelivered; B need not appear on this partial invoice. A second matching receipt adds its accepted quantity; rejected quantities remain separate evidence. After previously billing two A units, supply prior_invoiced: [{"sku":"A","quantity":2}] and bill at most two more against those four accepted units.

Reading the report

matched means the supplied evidence passes these exact checks; it does not authorize payment. exceptions identifies document mismatches, unknown SKUs, missing receipts, excessive accepted/billed quantities, price differences or an inconsistent declared invoice total. invalid identifies ambiguity or unsafe computed money; resolve it before interpreting the comparison. Mismatched receipt PO/supplier references are flagged and those receipts do not support billing.

Every issue has code, severity, source, optional sku, and a concrete message. Each sorted SKU row includes PO/invoice one-based source line numbers; ordered, accepted, rejected, prior and current invoice quantities; both unit prices; cumulative billed quantity; available quantity before this invoice; remaining undelivered quantity; receipt references/line numbers and inclusion flags; and issue codes. The report retains the complete supplied documents, so a duplicate row never disappears from the audit evidence. Partial shortages are shown as remaining quantities and do not themselves fail a supported partial invoice.

Small reports return inline. A report whose escaped MCP response would exceed 8 MiB returns an explicit paginated: true overview with status, totals, counts, source document headers and report_id. All evidence remains free through report_page. Select section from issues, lines, po_lines, invoice_lines, prior_invoiced, receipts, receipt_lines or line_receipts; use offset (default 0) and limit (default 100, maximum 100), following next_offset until null. lines pages contain scalar evidence and receipt_count; get those receipt entries with line_receipts and the exact sku. receipt_lines requires the zero-based receipt_index from the original receipt array. receipts pages contain document headers and line counts. Together these sections preserve every source row and every computed issue.

Saved reports use their persistent UUID for pages, and report_get returns the same bounded overview for large saved reports. Large unsaved reports, including save-cap and storage failures, use preview:<UUID> IDs: the process keeps its last two large previews for 30 minutes. Restart, expiry or a third preview can evict them; resubmit the original diagnostic to recreate the free preview. Preview IDs belong to the current running server process. The underlying SDK also limits incoming stdio messages to 10 MiB; encoded requests must fit that transport limit even when individual row counts fit the schema.

CSV includes one row per SKU, exact minor-unit prices, quantities and line issue codes; document issues remain in the accompanying JSON and full report. CSV is returned as text, not written to an arbitrary caller-supplied path. Formula-like leading characters are escaped for spreadsheet use.

CSV exports that fit the same 8 MiB response budget stay inline. Larger exports return a first chunk of up to 1,000 rows with paginated, offset, returned, total_rows and next_offset. Pass that next_offset as offset in another report_export_csv call; optional limit is 1–1,000. Every chunk repeats the header; retain one header when combining chunks.

Free and Pro

When save: true hits the free cap, the full report is still returned with saved: false, save_error: "free_saved_report_cap" and the checkout link. A storage error likewise preserves the diagnostic report. Delete an old saved report to reuse a free slot. A saved report file is limited to 64 MiB when saved and read; this is a storage integrity guard, not a Pro limit.

Get Pro: $19 one time. All servers: $39 bundle. Activate the key with license_activate or set MCP_LICENSE_KEY. Keys verify offline.

All data stays local. Matching makes no network requests. Saved JSON reports live under ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/mcp-servers/three-way-match/; XDG_DATA_HOME must be absolute and the storage directory ancestry must not contain symlinks. Files use atomic rename and mutations share a cross-process lock. Reports include commercial document data: manage local access and backups accordingly. License activation writes the shared local license config.

Development

npm run build --workspace @theluckystrike/mcp-three-way-matchnpm test --workspace @theluckystrike/mcp-three-way-match

Tests exercise offsetting quantity/price errors, rejected and multiple receipts, partials, explicit prior billing, unknown and duplicate SKUs/references, currency/PO/supplier mismatches, dates, integer boundaries, free/Pro save policy, atomic storage and an MCP stdio initialization/tools/call round trip. Docker builds from the repository root with docker build -f servers/three-way-match/Dockerfile ..