What the documents look like
Franchise fee and deposit settlement handles money movement and breach deductions. It does not perform government filing. The records come from finance systems, franchise contracts, bank statements, and store violation records. Daily documents include franchise fee invoices, deposit ledgers, deduction notices, and contract payment schedules. Disputes concentrate on fund disagreements, franchise litigation, and deposit refund divergence, so product material question answering must return to specific document text. Amounts, payment terms, and deduction reasons in an answer need a checkable source.
The update frequency is monthly and per deduction. This page does not derive batch synchronization or real-time trigger mechanisms from that fact.
Constraints at the citation tracing step
The knowledge base search node can associate one or more knowledge bases that use the same vector model. Its output is a citation array whose length may be zero. An empty array still passes through the output link. The citation limit is controlled by tokens. The minimum relevance value takes effect only in semantic retrieval or when result reranking is used. Neither one acts as a permission or entity filter. A retrieval result is not an authorization result. Hybrid retrieval merges through RRF. Reranking requires a model and must be enabled by configuration. Image retrieval requires image input and corresponding model capability. These paths are not guaranteed to execute on every request.
Hypothetical drill sample: the source text reads, "A deduction notice for a franchisee dated March 2025 states that the deduction reason is item 7 of the store violation record, and the amount matches the deduction column of the deposit ledger for that month; the contract payment schedule shows the payment term for this franchise fee as March 31, 2025." The draft sentence to be judged reads, "The March 2025 deduction for this franchisee has completed approval and has been deducted from the deposit." That sentence concerns approval status and fund execution. The material does not state an approval record or a bank statement, so the judgment is not supported. If the draft sentence instead reads, "The reason stated in the deduction notice matches the amount in the deduction column of the deposit ledger for that month," it shares the same subject, the same period, and the same field as the source text, so it can be supported.
Configuration and implementation checks
| Configuration item | Hypothetical starting point for this trial | Reason and comparison method |
|---|---|---|
| Associated knowledge bases | Franchise contract base and deposit ledger base | Check the vector model identifier of both bases first; associate only when identical, exclude those that do not match |
| Search mode | Hybrid retrieval | Numbers and proper nouns need full-text recall; the semantic part supplements natural language phrasing |
| Result reranking | Enabled | When candidates are numerous, filter by rerank score; compare citation order for the same question before and after reranking |
| Citation limit | Hypothetical starting point 2000 tokens | Compare against the length of a single ledger record; observe whether citations are truncated |
| Minimum relevance | Hypothetical starting point 0.3 | Compare against the rerank score distribution; observe whether low-relevance fragments still enter the citations |
| Question optimization | Enabled for multi-turn follow-up scenarios | Compare elapsed time and completion result against a single clear question |
These values are hypothetical starting points for this trial. They are not official default values.
Three common errors
- Treating a retrieval hit as an authorization basis. The error is using cited content to show that a deduction was approved. The check is to take the draft sentence and the deduction notice source text as input, compare whether an approval field exists, and record not supported when the source text lacks that field.
- Treating an empty citation array as a workflow error. The error is concluding that an empty array means the node failed. The check is to input the paper value [], compare whether the downstream design still continues execution, and observe whether the output link passes through.
- Forcing joint association across vector models. The error is selecting bases with different vector models together. The check is to verify each base's vector model identifier, exclude those that do not match, and record the actual observation without inferring a missed-recall result.
How to verify the setup
- Verification one: input the deduction notice source text and the draft sentence from the hypothetical sample, compare whether approval and fund execution fields are stated, and judge not supported when the source text does not state them. The condition is met when the judgment conclusion matches the scope of the source text.
- Verification two: input the matching-amount statement from the hypothetical sample, compare the values of the same period and same field in the deduction notice and the deposit ledger, and treat it as supported when the two agree. The condition is met when the citation points to both source texts.
- Verification three: input the paper value [], compare whether the downstream node still executes, and treat the output link passing through as meeting the condition. Do not claim that a fabricated rule retrieval will necessarily return an empty array.
This feature has verified public technical facts (used to identify relevant content in documents; not required to be copied as a fixed five-row table; the body is written independently):
[["Associated knowledge bases", "The knowledge base search scope first verifies the selected knowledge bases and material versions; only identical vector models can be associated together."], ["Citation content output", "The search node outputs a citation array whose length may be zero; an empty array does not mean the workflow has already errored and terminated."], ["Citation input handling", "Check whether the retrieval output is passed to the answering step, and verify each answer against the cited source text."], ["Citation display verification", "Use a traceable sample to verify source text display; do not substitute thinking process or answer fluency for source evidence."], ["Material timeliness verification", "Test sources with current and historical document versions; whether a citation is adopted still requires review against the valid version."]]