Associate a deposit with a customer?

[Keith Fetterman]

Is there a way to associate a check deposit to a customer in Gnucash?  I
received several checks from the members of our non-profit.  I have the
members in Gnucash as customers.  I'd like to associate their checks
(deposits) with their customer records, but I don't want to create an
invoice and a payment for each check.  I talked with my controller at my
company about how she handles deposits that the company receives that are
not associated with an invoice.  She can do one of two things. 1) create a
customer deposit, which can be associated with a future invoice, or 2)
create a deposit, which has a field to identify the customer that sent the
check.

I looked at our accounting system at the office and it has the same
functionality for writing checks.  You can associate a vendor with a check
that the company is sending to a vendor.  It saves the steps of creating a
bill and a payment.

Please let me know because it will save a lot of time if I don't have to
create invoices and payments for each check.

Thanks,
Keith