Overpayment of invoices (not as an advance on future invoices)

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:43:14 +0000 "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 
> On Friday 10 December 2010 17:28:31 Robert Heller wrote:
> > What is the best way to deal with the case where a customer pays an
> > extra amount over the invoice, not as an advance payment for a future
> > invoice but as a kind of gratuity?  If I do a process payment of the
> > amount of the payment, gnucash will create a credit that will be
> > applied to the next invoice -- I don't want to do this, since this is
> > not the customer's intent of the extra payment.  I would *like* to have
> > one transaction/split, rather than do a process payment for the amount
> > of the invoice and then entering a *separate* transaction for the excess
> > (as raw, non-invoiced, income).
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> I suggest the following, (I think I have done similar in the past)
> 1. process payment in the usual way for the _invoice_ total.
> 2. go to checking (or wherever) and manually add a split to that txn for 
> the "overpayment" I guess to something like income:gifts (ISTR that you can't 
> do this step in the A/R account)
> 3. Adjust the split which affects the checking account to be the total 
> actually paid.
> 
> Hope that makes sense and helps!

Yes, it make sense.  Thanks.

> Maf.
> 
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