Paying Invoices and showing them as paid in "Find Invoice"

[Derek Atkins]

See the FAQ.  You don't pay an invoice, you pay the customer.  You cannot assign
a payment to a specific invoice; payments are applied FIFO.  Are you paying the
invoices in date order?  Are the invoices being marked "paid" in date order?

-derek

Quoting Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at>:

> Derek,
> 
> I did as implied, deleting all entries and processing the payments again. It
> 
> reschuffled the one's being shown as paid, but no further success. I am 
> basically back at square one. When you process a payment it also proposes the
> 
> wrong amounts. Very strange.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stephan
> On Monday 18 April 2005 18:23, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > My first guess is that you hand-modified a payment transaction after you
> > posted it using Process Payment?  Perhaps you realized you entered the
> > wrong number and then you changed it in the register?
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at>:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I ran over a somwhat stupid problem. For Business Trips I create an
> > > invoice to
> > > keep track of being refunded the expense. I have invoices from almost a
> > > year
> > >
> > > ago and all of them have been paid. However in the "Find invoice" window
> > > only
> > >
> > > some are being shown as having been paid. In no particular order. The
> > > first to appear as being paid, 3rd is not 4th is paid and so on. The A/R
> > > being used
> > >
> > > is "balanced", showing the open amount to be the last invoice from
> today.
> > >
> > > I have tried reposting all invoices, to no avail.
> > >
> > > In addition the A/R shows as the first entry Action "auto split", Type
> > > being
> > >
> > > "?". This shows as 340.41 as a payment and invoice in and out og the
> A/R.
> > > Any
> > >
> > > suggestions what I did wrong?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Stephan
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