Endeavour Foundation receives money orders and cheques for lottery ticket purchases. For money orders, we capture the M/O reference number, which is bar-coded on the actual money order.
This info is then pulled along with all BSB and Account numbers for cheques as our bank requires a report with all of this information when cheques and money orders are deposited.
The reference number also assists if there is human error, and an agent needs to look up a deposit to identify the corresponding order.