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Posted by Philip Nelson on April 25, 2007, 10:02 am
Please log in for more thread options Gary E wrote:
>> Laura wrote:
>>>> I have a customer with 2 different names, with one invoice owing under
>>>> each name. He wrote me one check. I asked him if he would like me to
>>>> change one of the invoices to reflect the name the check is written
>>>> from, he said no, he will sort it out on his end.
>>>>
>>>> Then I got back to the office and tried to enter it into QuickBooks
>>>> (2005) and discovered that I don't know how, at least in the receive
>>>> payments window. I think I want to split the customer's check between
>>>> the two invoices, each under a different name, but receive payments
>>>> seems unwilling to allow that.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>> In the Receive Payments screen enter just the amount that you want
>>> applied to one of the outstanding invoices. Don't enter the total check
>>> received. Do this for both halves of the check. Put them into the
>>> Undeposited Funds account and use the Make Deposit screen to put the 2
>>> pieces back together again.
>> I will do that, thanks. Seems like it would be better if QuickBooks
>> would allow the split in the Receive Payments window.
>>
> QuickBooks will do it, if you make one of the customer names into a job of
> the other, than you can keep track of all the work for a particular client.
>
> Gary
>
I tried both, but I didn't see the way to do either in the amount of
time I was willing to devote, so I wound up changing the name on the
invoice. I would say QuickBooks let me down here, at least in the
ease of use dept.
--
Phil Nelson
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