Split Payments

[Maf. King]

On Friday 11 September 2009 17:30:47 Kurt Guenther wrote:
> I'm still not seeing it.
>
> If I have 4 outstanding invoices for $5,000 each ($20,000 total) and
> then I get a check for $18,000, how do I process the payment
> correctly.   The check should cover the first 33 invoices, and then
> $3000 applied to the 4th.
>
> In the "process payment" dialogue, it only has room for one invoice.
> I've been breaking up my payment into 4 payments for each of the
> invoices which should work.  However, the partial on the 4th seems
> buggy.  As once I apply a partial, it seems immune to further payments
> and always stays in the not-paid state.
>
> It seems that when you have a payment for a customer, you have have a
> list of unpaid invoices for only that customer (and their outstanding
> balance), so you can apply the payment to 1 or more invoices.   Payment
> should be a single transaction and funds end up in a "to be deposited"
> account.
>
> So, were am I going off the tracks?
>
> --Kurt

Hi Kurt,

In the "process payment" dialogue, just set the "amount" to $18000 and chose 
the oldest outstanding invoice. GC will handle the split for you, taking the 
invoices in a FIFO order.

the "invoice" field will let you take a single invoice out of FIFO order.

HTH,
Maf