[GNC] What is a 'pre-paymnet' and how do I remove it?

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Adrien Monteleone wrote:

> Right-click the transaction in your checking register and choose “Edit
> Payment” or “Assign as Payment” (depending on if it was already assigned
> at one time or not)

> Then select both the payment and the invoice it should apply to and save
> the result.

Adrien,

   Thanks, I'll do that.

> Pre-payments happen when you process a payment and don’t assign it to an
> invoice. They can also happen when you unpost an invoice that is already
> paid and GnuCash doesn’t manage to reapply the payment when you repost the
> invoice. (not usual, but it does happen)

   I have not explicitly processed a payment without assigning it to an
invoice. Doing that makes no sense ... to me.

   With one client I _might_ have unposted/reposted the invoice. With this
past week's actions that was not the case.

Regards,

Rich