[GNC] How to apply overpayment to new invoice?

[Christopher Lam]

Find the prepayment in the AP or bank register, right click, edit payment,
and use it to clear the later invoice.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 6:45 pm Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> I was late with my property taxes this year and incurred a penalty. I
> had earlier entered the billed amount as an invoice payable to the tax
> collector. I finally got the funds together to pay the amount, including
> penalty, in full. I entered it as one payment transaction, of course,
> since it was one e-check, and now it's showing up in my "Accounts
> Payable" as two transactions, one for the remaining billed amount (I had
> made partial payments earlier), and a separate transaction for $136.63
> representing the penalty and interest which appears as an unassigned
> pre-payment.
>
> OK so far. Well, now that I know the total penalty I entered another
> invoice for that amount. Fine. Now I want to pay the invoice with the
> pre-payment. I go to the payment screen and the pre-payment shows up
> there. But I can find no way to apply it to the new invoice. How do I
> close this [expletive!] out?
>
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