What should the consultant do to ensure accurate Payments functionality when migrating donation records?

To ensure accurate Payments functionality when migrating donation records, adjusting settings to prevent duplicate Payments is crucial. Duplicate Payments can lead to significant issues, such as inflated donation totals, incorrect reporting, and confusion among stakeholders. By implementing measures that prevent the creation of duplicate payment records during the migration process, the consultant helps maintain data integrity and accuracy.

This approach is particularly important when handling financial transactions, where precision is essential for accountability and reporting purposes. By focusing on preventing duplicates, the consultant can ensure that each donation and its corresponding Payment are unique and properly recorded, facilitating a more reliable financial overview for the organization.

Other considerations, such as verifying the association of existing Payments or specifying Payment types during import, are also important, but they do not address the specific challenge of preventing duplicates, which can skew financial data significantly. These aspects may enhance the migration process but do not provide the same level of critical control over the integrity of the Payments data.