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marmak
Experienced Cover User
3 years ago

irregular transactions in accounts

so, a little complicated to explain the problem we're having...

The way we handle credit card payments is the following:

1. receive payments from "merchant clearing account" that we have set up

2. when the funds come into bankfeeds we transfer the money into the "merchant clearing account"

 

I was trying to balance this clearing account and discovered one invoice had been paid from the incorrect account (bank account #1) - this happens occasionally but is easily rectified by entering into the payment and changing the "paid from" account to the merchant clearing account. On this occasion the "paid from" account is locked even though it is not from a locked period so I can't change it and cannot balance the account.

 

I then noticed that there are transactions in the payment history that have not been performed by us eg "transfer from deposits" into and out of "customer deposits". These have occurred on all of the credit card payments on 9, 10 and 11th July and again on the 14th there has been a large number of transfer from deposits occurring.

 

Then, even wierder, when I click to open the payment it takes me to a completely different customer transaction dated in 2015.

 

I spoke to our accountant and they were as perplexed as we are and suggested there may be a glitch in your system.

 

We really need this fixed up as soon as possible

 

thanks

 

 

 

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  • marmak's avatar
    marmak
    Experienced Cover User
    3 years ago

    a little enlightenment for anyone interested...

    I figured out today that if you apply a payment to an ORDER  MYOB will automatically create a transaction to and from the customer deposits account. This doesn't happen if you apply the payment to an INVOICE.

     

    This is not a problem unless you need to make any changes to the payment as it is locked and you can't delete the payment. so if someone from MYOB could tell me how to alter this that would be appreciated.

     

    The other problem seems to have been resolved

  • CloverQ's avatar
    CloverQ
    Former Staff
    3 years ago

    Hi marmak 

     

    Thank you for the information.

     

    You are on the right track, transfer from deposit happens when you apply a payment to an order first, then the order with deposit is converted to an invoice. The conversion locks in the previous transactions and prevents payment from being deleted. In AccountRight you'd also need to set up a linked account to track deposits, based on your description it appears the merchant clearing account was set as the liability account to track customer deposits (or asset account for supplier deposits if it was a bill) when the transactions were recorded.

     

    The deposit transferred cannot be deleted, the only option is reversing the invoice, settle the credit then re-record the invoice & payment again. Please find more details in these Help articles: Customer deposits / Supplier deposits. Alternatively, you can looking into doing journal entries to balance the accounts if preferred, for that you'd need to check with your accountant on how to record them exactly.

     

    I hope this helps. Please feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.