Duplicate file or duplicate check means what?

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Duplicate file or duplicate check means the system recognizes that the file being received has already been loaded and processed, so it won’t be processed again. This protects against reprocessing the same data and avoids duplicates in postings or remittance reconciliation.

In practice, the system uses identifiers like the file name, size, timestamp, or a hash to determine if a file has been seen before. If a match is found to a previously processed file or a record in the processing log, the file is flagged as a duplicate and typically rejected or handled as a warning.

This is different from duplicates within a file’s contents (two identical records), which would be a separate issue related to data quality inside the file. It’s also not about the file simply not being scanned for duplicates, which would imply no duplicate check exists. And it’s not about remittance codes repeating within the file itself, which again concerns internal data rather than whether the entire file has already been processed.