diff --git a/backend/src/receipt-import/dto/match-decision.ts b/backend/src/receipt-import/dto/match-decision.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b630780
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/receipt-import/dto/match-decision.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// Structured result från receipt item matching
+export interface MatchDecision {
+  // Produkt-matchning
+  matchedProductId?: number;
+  suggestedProductId?: number;
+  matchedProductName?: string;
+  suggestedProductName?: string;
+  matchedVia: 'alias' | 'wordmatch' | 'none';
+
+  // Kategori
+  category?: {
+    id: number;
+    name: string;
+    path: string;
+    confidence: 'high' | 'medium' | 'low';
+    source: 'alias' | 'product' | 'rule' | 'ai' | 'guard';
+    usedFallback: boolean;
+  };
+
+  // Enhet
+  unit?: string;
+
+  // Debug
+  debug?: {
+    rawName: string;
+    signal: string;
+    steps: string[];
+    decisionTree: {
+      alias?: { found: boolean; productId?: number };
+      wordMatch?: { found: boolean; productId?: number; score?: number };
+      rule?: { found: boolean; path?: string };
+      ai?: { called: boolean; result?: string };
+      guard?: { applied: boolean; oldPath?: string; newPath?: string };
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/backend/src/receipt-import/receipt-import.service.ts b/backend/src/receipt-import/receipt-import.service.ts
index 708ca8a5..cb767261 100644
--- a/backend/src/receipt-import/receipt-import.service.ts
+++ b/backend/src/receipt-import/receipt-import.service.ts
@@ -158,11 +158,96 @@ export class ReceiptImportService {
     // Steg 1: Delegera AI-parsning till microservice-importer
     const rawItems = await this.parseReceiptViaImporter(file);
 
-    // Steg 2: Matchning mot produktdatabas (kräver DB — stannar i recipe-app)
-    const matched = await this.matchProducts(rawItems, userId);
+    // Steg 2 & 3: Unified matching + categorization
+    // Samla context en gång för alla items
+    const context = await this.prepareMatchingContext(userId);
 
-    // Steg 3: Regel + AI-kategorisering för alla användare
-    return this.enrichWithAiCategories(matched, userId);
+    // Mappa alla items genom unified matcher
+    return Promise.all(
+      rawItems.map((item) =>
+        this.matchAndEnrichReceiptItem(item, context),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+
+  private async prepareMatchingContext(userId?: number) {
+    type UnitMappingLite = { productId: number; originalUnit: string; preferredUnit: string };
+    type AliasLite = {
+      receiptName: string;
+      product: {
+        id: number;
+        name: string;
+        canonicalName: string | null;
+        categoryRef: { id: number; name: string } | null;
+      };
+    };
+
+    const prismaAny = this.prisma as any;
+
+    const productFilter = userId ? { isActive: true, ownerId: userId } : { isActive: true };
+    const aliasFilter = userId
+      ? { OR: [{ ownerId: userId, isGlobal: false }, { isGlobal: true }] }
+      : { isGlobal: true };
+
+    const unitMappingsPromise =
+      userId && prismaAny.unitMapping?.findMany
+        ? (prismaAny.unitMapping.findMany({
+            where: { userId },
+            select: { productId: true, originalUnit: true, preferredUnit: true },
+          }) as Promise<UnitMappingLite[]>)
+        : Promise.resolve([] as UnitMappingLite[]);
+
+    let categories: Awaited<ReturnType<CategoriesService['findFlattened']>>;
+    try {
+      categories = await this.categoriesService.findFlattened();
+    } catch {
+      categories = [];
+    }
+
+    const [aliases, products, unitMappings] = await Promise.all([
+      this.prisma.receiptAlias.findMany({
+        where: aliasFilter,
+        orderBy: [{ isGlobal: 'asc' }, { id: 'asc' }],
+        select: {
+          receiptName: true,
+          product: {
+            select: {
+              id: true,
+              name: true,
+              canonicalName: true,
+              categoryRef: { select: { id: true, name: true } },
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      }),
+      this.prisma.product.findMany({
+        where: productFilter,
+        select: {
+          id: true,
+          name: true,
+          canonicalName: true,
+          categoryRef: { select: { id: true, name: true } },
+        },
+      }),
+      unitMappingsPromise,
+    ]) as [
+      AliasLite[],
+      Array<{ id: number; name: string; canonicalName: string | null; categoryRef: { id: number; name: string } | null }>,
+      UnitMappingLite[]
+    ];
+
+    const user = userId
+      ? await this.prisma.user.findUnique({ where: { id: userId }, select: { aiEngineEnabled: true } })
+      : null;
+
+    return {
+      userId,
+      aliases,
+      products,
+      unitMappings,
+      categories,
+      aiEnabled: user?.aiEngineEnabled ?? false,
+    };
   }
 
   async upsertUnitMapping(
@@ -375,11 +460,12 @@ export class ReceiptImportService {
             if (item.learnAlias) {
               const normalizedReceiptName = (item.rawName ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
               if (normalizedReceiptName) {
+                const aliasOwnerId: number | null = dto.isAdminLearning ? null : userId || null;
                 await tx.receiptAlias.upsert({
                   where: {
                     receiptName_ownerId_isGlobal: {
                       receiptName: normalizedReceiptName,
-                      ownerId: dto.isAdminLearning ? null : userId,
+                      ownerId: aliasOwnerId as any,
                       isGlobal: dto.isAdminLearning ? true : false,
                     },
                   },
@@ -389,7 +475,7 @@ export class ReceiptImportService {
                   create: {
                     receiptName: normalizedReceiptName,
                     productId,
-                    ownerId: dto.isAdminLearning ? null : userId,
+                    ownerId: dto.isAdminLearning ? undefined : userId,
                     isGlobal: dto.isAdminLearning ? true : false,
                   },
                 });
@@ -635,6 +721,293 @@ export class ReceiptImportService {
     return best?.product;
   }
 
+  // ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+  // UNIFIED MATCHER: Kombinerar product matching + categorization
+  // ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+  private async matchAndEnrichReceiptItem(
+    item: ParsedReceiptItem,
+    context: {
+      userId?: number;
+      aliases: Array<{
+        receiptName: string;
+        product: {
+          id: number;
+          name: string;
+          canonicalName: string | null;
+          categoryRef: { id: number; name: string } | null;
+        };
+      }>;
+      products: Array<{
+        id: number;
+        name: string;
+        canonicalName: string | null;
+        categoryRef: { id: number; name: string } | null;
+      }>;
+      unitMappings: Array<{ productId: number; originalUnit: string; preferredUnit: string }>;
+      categories: Awaited<ReturnType<CategoriesService['findFlattened']>>;
+      aiEnabled: boolean;
+    },
+  ): Promise<ParsedReceiptItem> {
+    if (!item.rawName) return item;
+
+    const raw = item.rawName.toLowerCase().trim();
+    const debug = { steps: <string[]>[], tree: <Record<string, any>>{} };
+
+    try {
+      // ┌─ STEG 1: Alias-lookup (certifierad match) ─────────────────────────┐
+      debug.steps.push('Step 1: Alias lookup');
+      const aliasMatch = context.aliases.find((a) => a.receiptName === raw);
+      if (aliasMatch) {
+        debug.tree.alias = { found: true, productId: aliasMatch.product.id };
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Alias found → productId ${aliasMatch.product.id}`);
+
+        const mappedUnit = context.unitMappings.find(
+          (um) => um.productId === aliasMatch.product.id && um.originalUnit === (item.unit ?? '').trim().toLowerCase(),
+        )?.preferredUnit;
+
+        return {
+          ...item,
+          matchedProductId: aliasMatch.product.id,
+          matchedProductName: aliasMatch.product.canonicalName ?? aliasMatch.product.name,
+          unit: mappedUnit ?? item.unit,
+          matchedVia: 'alias' as const,
+          ...(aliasMatch.product.categoryRef
+            ? {
+                categorySuggestion: {
+                  categoryId: aliasMatch.product.categoryRef.id,
+                  categoryName: aliasMatch.product.categoryRef.name,
+                  path: aliasMatch.product.categoryRef.name,
+                  confidence: 'high' as const,
+                  usedFallback: false,
+                },
+              }
+            : {}),
+        };
+      }
+      debug.steps.push(`  ✗ No alias match`);
+      debug.tree.alias = { found: false };
+
+      // ┌─ STEG 2: Ordet-baserad matchning (förslag) ────────────────────────┐
+      debug.steps.push('Step 2: Word match');
+      const wordMatchResult = this.findWordMatchWithScore(raw, context.products);
+      if (wordMatchResult) {
+        debug.tree.wordMatch = { found: true, productId: wordMatchResult.id, score: wordMatchResult.score };
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Word match found → productId ${wordMatchResult.id} (score ${wordMatchResult.score})`);
+
+        const unitMapping = context.unitMappings.find(
+          (um) => um.productId === wordMatchResult.id && um.originalUnit === (item.unit ?? '').trim().toLowerCase(),
+        );
+        const preferredUnit = unitMapping ? unitMapping.preferredUnit : item.unit;
+
+        const result: ParsedReceiptItem = {
+          ...item,
+          suggestedProductId: wordMatchResult.id,
+          suggestedProductName: wordMatchResult.canonicalName ?? wordMatchResult.name,
+          unit: preferredUnit,
+          matchedVia: 'wordmatch' as const,
+        };
+
+        // Lägg på kategori från produkt om den finns
+        if (wordMatchResult.categoryRef) {
+          result.categorySuggestion = {
+            categoryId: wordMatchResult.categoryRef.id,
+            categoryName: wordMatchResult.categoryRef.name,
+            path: wordMatchResult.categoryRef.name,
+            confidence: 'medium' as const,
+            usedFallback: false,
+          };
+        }
+
+        // Gå vidare till kategorisering för wordmatch
+        return await this.enrichCategoryForItem(result, context, debug);
+      }
+      debug.steps.push(`  ✗ No word match`);
+      debug.tree.wordMatch = { found: false };
+
+      // ┌─ STEG 3: Regel-baserad kategorisering (no product match) ──────────┐
+      return await this.enrichCategoryForItem(
+        { ...item, matchedVia: 'none' as const },
+        context,
+        debug,
+      );
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.logger.warn(`matchAndEnrichReceiptItem error for "${item.rawName}": ${err}`);
+      return item;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async enrichCategoryForItem(
+    item: ParsedReceiptItem,
+    context: {
+      userId?: number;
+      categories: Awaited<ReturnType<CategoriesService['findFlattened']>>;
+      aiEnabled: boolean;
+    },
+    debug: any,
+  ): Promise<ParsedReceiptItem> {
+    debug.steps.push('Step 3: Categorization');
+
+    const signalText = [item.rawName, item.matchedProductName, item.suggestedProductName]
+      .filter((v): v is string => typeof v === 'string' && v.trim().length > 0)
+      .join(' ');
+
+    let nextCategory = item.categorySuggestion ?? null;
+
+    // ┌─ Försök regel-baserad kategorisering ─────────────────────────────┐
+    debug.steps.push('  Trying rule-based categorization');
+    const ruleResult = this.ruleBasedCategorySuggestion(signalText || item.rawName, context.categories);
+    debug.tree.rule = { found: !!ruleResult, path: ruleResult?.path };
+
+    if (ruleResult?.confidence === 'high') {
+      const sameAsExisting = nextCategory && nextCategory.categoryId === ruleResult.categoryId;
+      if (!sameAsExisting) {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Rule-based HIGH: ${ruleResult.path}`);
+        nextCategory = ruleResult;
+      } else {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Rule-based HIGH (same as existing): ${ruleResult.path}`);
+      }
+    } else if (!nextCategory && ruleResult) {
+      debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Rule-based fallback: ${ruleResult.path}`);
+      nextCategory = ruleResult;
+    } else {
+      debug.steps.push(`  ✗ Rule-based miss or lower priority`);
+    }
+
+    // ┌─ AI-kategorisering som fallback ──────────────────────────────────┐
+    if (!nextCategory) {
+      debug.steps.push('  Trying AI categorization');
+      if (context.aiEnabled) {
+        debug.tree.ai = { called: true };
+        try {
+          nextCategory = await this.aiService.suggestCategory(item.rawName, context.categories);
+          debug.steps.push(`  ✓ AI suggestion: ${nextCategory.path}`);
+        } catch (err) {
+          debug.steps.push(`  ✗ AI failed: ${err}`);
+          debug.tree.ai = { called: true, error: String(err) };
+        }
+      } else {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✗ AI disabled for user`);
+        debug.tree.ai = { called: false };
+      }
+    }
+
+    // ┌─ Contradiction guard (final sanity check) ────────────────────────┐
+    if (nextCategory) {
+      debug.steps.push('  Applying contradiction guard');
+      const beforePath = nextCategory.path;
+      const guardedCategory = this.applyContradictionGuard(signalText || item.rawName, nextCategory, context.categories);
+      if (guardedCategory && guardedCategory.path !== beforePath) {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ⚠️ Guard remapped: ${beforePath} → ${guardedCategory.path}`);
+        nextCategory = guardedCategory;
+        debug.tree.guard = { applied: true, oldPath: beforePath, newPath: guardedCategory.path };
+      } else {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ Guard OK`);
+      }
+    }
+
+    // ┌─ Hard overrides (special rules for problematic cases) ─────────────┐
+    if (nextCategory) {
+      debug.steps.push('  Applying hard overrides');
+      const beforePath = nextCategory.path;
+      const finalCategory = this.applyHardCategoryOverrides(signalText || item.rawName, nextCategory, context.categories);
+      if (finalCategory && finalCategory.path !== beforePath) {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ⚠️ Override applied: ${beforePath} → ${finalCategory.path}`);
+        nextCategory = finalCategory;
+        debug.tree.hardOverride = { applied: true, oldPath: beforePath, newPath: finalCategory.path };
+      } else {
+        debug.steps.push(`  ✓ No hard override needed`);
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (nextCategory) {
+      debug.steps.push(`✅ FINAL: ${nextCategory.path} (${nextCategory.confidence})`);
+    } else {
+      debug.steps.push(`❌ FINAL: No category assigned`);
+    }
+
+    if (this.shouldTraceDecision(signalText || item.rawName)) {
+      this.logger.log(`[ReceiptDecision] ${item.rawName}\n${debug.steps.join('\n')}`);
+    }
+
+    return nextCategory ? { ...item, categorySuggestion: nextCategory } : item;
+  }
+
+  // Helper: findWordMatch som returnerar både product OCH score
+  private findWordMatchWithScore(
+    raw: string,
+    products: Array<{
+      id: number;
+      name: string;
+      canonicalName: string | null;
+      categoryRef: { id: number; name: string } | null;
+    }>,
+  ): (typeof products[0] & { score: number }) | undefined {
+    const rawWords = tokenize(raw);
+    if (rawWords.length === 0) return undefined;
+
+    const rawWordSet = new Set(rawWords);
+    const rawWordsNorm = rawWords.map(normalizeToken);
+    const rawWordSetNorm = new Set(rawWordsNorm);
+
+    let best: (typeof products[0] & { score: number }) | undefined;
+
+    for (const product of products) {
+      const productWords = tokenize(product.canonicalName ?? product.name);
+      if (productWords.length === 0) continue;
+
+      let score = 0;
+      let exactStrong = 0;
+      let exactAny = 0;
+      let partialStrong = 0;
+
+      const phrase = (product.canonicalName ?? product.name).toLowerCase();
+      if (raw.includes(phrase)) {
+        score += 5;
+      }
+
+      for (const pw of productWords) {
+        const isWeak = WEAK_DESCRIPTORS.has(pw);
+        const pwNorm = normalizeToken(pw);
+
+        if (rawWordSet.has(pw) || rawWordSetNorm.has(pwNorm)) {
+          exactAny += 1;
+          if (isWeak) {
+            score += 1;
+          } else {
+            exactStrong += 1;
+            score += 8;
+          }
+          continue;
+        }
+
+        if (pw.length < 4) continue;
+
+        const hasPartial =
+          rawWords.some((rw) => rw.includes(pw) || pw.includes(rw)) ||
+          rawWordsNorm.some((rw) => rw.includes(pwNorm) || pwNorm.includes(rw));
+        if (!hasPartial) continue;
+
+        if (isWeak) continue;
+
+        partialStrong += 1;
+        score += 3;
+      }
+
+      const hasLongPartial = partialStrong >= 1 && productWords.some((pw) => pw.length >= 5);
+      const hasStrongSignal = exactStrong >= 1 || exactAny + partialStrong >= 2 || hasLongPartial;
+      if (!hasStrongSignal) continue;
+
+      if (score < 8) continue;
+
+      if (!best || score > best.score) {
+        best = { ...product, score };
+      }
+    }
+
+    return best;
+  }
+
   private async enrichWithAiCategories(items: ParsedReceiptItem[], userId?: number): Promise<ParsedReceiptItem[]> {
     let categories: Awaited<ReturnType<CategoriesService['findFlattened']>>;
     try {