Refunds and overpayments

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:

> I guess overpayments are rare, however.

Not necessarily.  GnuCash is set up to apply an over payment to the next
invoice.

> I have a customer who's just paid me, not only what they owe but an advance on 
> the next job however, it 's too much (?) so I will need to refund some of the 
> money and have it show up correctly in customer->Report.  I can do a transfer 
> from bank account to accounts_receivable which corrects bank and receivable 
> but this does not solve the customer report problem.  Invoices do not accept 
> negative amounts so cannot do it that way. 

You cannot hand-enter any transaction and have it appear in the biz
reports.  So no, you cannot do a transfer from bank to A/R manually.

> I could just keep it I guess. :)
>
> It led me to thinking though, can I set up a customer who is also a vendor. ?
>
> Mike 

-derek
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