Other accounting systems have matching workflow not because they think it’s better - they literally do not have any other option.
In order to implement accounting system without matching workflow, you need to make sure that payment and receipt transactions can debit or credit any account in the system including all sub-accounts.
Typically, in accounting system, when receiving payment for invoice, you have to find that invoice and mark the invoice as paid on invoice itself.
So you record all these transactions involving sub-accounts in so many different places and then you need some mechanism to somehow match them to actual receipts or payments.
In Manager, matching is not necessary because payment and receipt can debit or credit any account including sub-accounts. This makes receipts and payments in Manager self-contained.
Example how single receipt can make entries into variety of accounts across the system.
And because receipts and payments are self-contained, this creates really nice benefits. First of all, if there is a bookkeeping error, you review each receipt and payment in isolation. In systems with matching workflows, you need to review a lot more because the transaction is recorded at multiple different places and then tied up together with some matching mechanism. It’s not unusual to throw away all the bookkeeping work, unmatch everything and re-do the entire period from scratch.
Also, by having self-contained receipts and payments, we can have really sophisticated bank rules so you can get to the point where your entire bank statement can be automatically categorized using bank rules without any workflow whatsoever.
And this is the key. Having everything automated. Why do you want to spend even one second of your time on matching? What benefits do you get in exchange? I see none.
I’m not sure why this topic even exists. My impression is that it’s because Manager doesn’t handle transfers between bank accounts. I do have solution to this and hope to implement it before end of this year.