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Create Receive Payment #
- Go to Sales on the left sidebar, and select Receive Payments
- Click Add New button in the top right corner.
- The list of customers with Outstanding Invoices appears. Select the customer who is making a payment.
- Note that you cannot create “Receive Payment” if customer does not have any outstanding invoice. There are others 2 apps that let you receive money: Receipt and Misc Receive.
- On the new payment page, fill in the following fields
- Payment number is an auto generated number.
- Customer: the customer you choose.
- Date: default is today.
- Payment Method: Select customer’s payment method.
- Amount Paid: Enter the amount of money received from the customer.
- Reference No: optional.
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- Detail tab
- Detail table
- The system displays all outstanding invoices or credit notes associated with the customer. Adding new rows for other documents is not possible.
- You are free to choose which invoices to pay by entering payment amount field, while leaving the others unchanged.
- Read only fields
- Due. Invoice’s due date.
- Doc: Document type and document number.
- Gross: Total value of invoice.
- Open: Open amount is the remaining amount that has yet to be settled.
- Balance: It equals Open amount – Payment.
- Exchange Rate: The exchange rate of the foreign currency invoice.
- Input fields
- Payment: The input amount can be negative for credit note, sales return or deposit.
- Discount Taken: It cannot be greater than discount available amount.
- Write-off: Used to remove uncollectible amounts, bad debt, or trivial balances from accounts.
- Withholding Tax: If customer deducts withholding tax from the invoice payment.
- Detail table
- Detail tab
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- Bank/Credit Card Fee: Enter the payment fee directly on the receipt to simplify bank or credit card reconciliation.
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- Account tab
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Post with invoice breakdown: Select this option if you want to have detail of posted ledgers breakdown by invoice in transaction journal.
- Undeposited Funds: Cash or check payments can be temporarily held in a separate account before being deposited into the bank at the end of the day or week.
- Deposit To Account: Select bank account or Undeposited account.
- AR Account: Auto-filled when customer is selected. However, the system typically uses the AR account specified on invoices and only applies this account if none is found.
- Withholding Tax Receivable Account: Used to track the amount of withholding tax deducted by customers from invoice payments
- Discount Account: Required if discount taken field is entered.
- Write-Off Account: Required if write-off field is entered.
- Expense Account: Used to record expenses related to bank or credit card fees.
- Exchange Gain/Loss Account: System records foreign exchange gain/loss when exchange rate of payment and invoice is different.
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- Account tab
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- Memo tab
- Memo: Up to 1000 characters.
- Memo tab
- Click Save