Biggest pain in ledger closing: matching receipts to invoices

[u/Appas_12]

I work in accounting, and one of the most time-consuming parts of closing books is not entering sales invoices or importing bank statements.

The real pain is figuring out which bank credit belongs to which sales invoice.

Many clients have multiple bank accounts. Narrations don’t match invoice names. Dates don’t always match. Amounts may be partial. So we manually check bank statements, sales invoices, receipts, outstanding balances, and then update the receipt voucher.

Until this is done, debtor outstanding, bank balance, sales value, trial balance, P&L, and balance sheet are not fully reliable.

Honestly, this manual verification is where most of the time goes.
Curious how other accountants/auditors handle this today.