Reminder invoices on unpaid accounts

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Wed Mar 16 17:06:40 EDT 2016


Hi,

On Wed, March 16, 2016 5:17 am, David Lark wrote:
> Fellow GC users:
>
> When a customer account is not paid in full, I have the need to send an
> additional monthly invoice. This invoice would ideally take the
> following form:
>
>   * New line items (posted to accounts receivable).
>   * Subtotal for the above.
>   * + Amount due from previous invoice(s).
>   * - Payments received.
>   * + Interest on unpaid balance (posted to A/R).
>   * = Total due now.
>
> Just creating a new invoice with the past due amount entered as a line
> item would result in the past due amount showing up twice in A/R. The
> only way I can think of to do this is to create the invoice, and negate
> the original amount in a subaccount, perhaps called "Delinquency
> Rollover" or some such.
>
> It seems as if the A/R capabilities of GC aren't quite there yet. Or
> perhaps my brain is what is missing some features. How do you deal with
> this situation? All ideas will be welcome.

A couple options come to mind:

* Print a Customer Report and send it to them.
* Print the old Invoice (again) but turn on "Show Payments"

> David

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-derek

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