Applying customer deposit to invoice
Hi folks, Hope all is well. Our customers pay 50% deposit to our bank account before we start on a job. The previous bookeeper has allocated that amount in "1-1150 Job Deposits Received" using Re...
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Hi KBlinds
The previous bookkeeper would have had a procedure to handle this, so check with them, or examine what has happened to transactions in this account previously. My guess would be the bookkeeper would enter a Receive Payment transaction using account 1-1150 as the 'Deposit to Account' account and apply this to the invoice when the balance was paid.
The original Receive Money would have been a deposit to the bank account, and the credit to account 1-1150. The above will reverse that and close the invoice.
MYOB does have a method for processing customer deposits. This involves creating an Order and applying the deposit. This is later reversed when the Order is converted to an invoice. See this article in the Support section. This method has its drawbacks, eg cannot be deleted once processed etc - see other forum posts on customer deposits for more info. There is probably a good reason why the previous bookkeeper did things a particular way.
Regards
Gavin
