5. Receive Payments

When do you receive payments?
As we have discussed in the previous section that, invoices are generated when the goods or services are sold and when no money payment/partial payment is made at the time of sale. When such dues are collected such collection of dues are been recorded in the Receive Payments Object.

A. Edit allows you to customize the view of the Receive Payments

B. Create New View allows you to create a new view and save it for future use

C. Allows you to view the Recently Created, Recently Modified and Recently Viewed payments from the dropdown menu

To record new payments click on the button New.
On clicking the button New a new windows opens as below

Select an appropriate record type from the dropdown menu of Record Type of new record and Click Continue.

First let us learn how to enter the check payment into the Receive Payments

A. Select appropriate customer from the lookup field in the Account Name

B. Enter the check number

C. Type the bank name present on the check

D. Select the Transaction Date and Time, by default on Clicking on the date and time provided besides the field the same gets entered

E. Enter the amount involved in the transaction

F. Select the GL account to which the transaction needs to be affected from the lookup field

G. Select the date on which you are supposed to deposit the check into the bank account

H. Change the Stage to Post if you are the authorizer/if you are checker select Pending

Once you have entered all the relevant data Click Save

Now we will learn how to enter the Cash payment into the Receive Payment

A. Select appropriate customer from the lookup field in the Account Name

B. Select the Transaction Date and Time, by default on Clicking on the date and time provided besides the field the same gets entered

C. Change the Stage to Post if you are the authorizer/checker or if you are the maker select Pending

D. Select the account to which the transaction needs to be affected from the lookup field

E. Select the date on which you are supposed to deposit the check into the bank account

F. Enter the amount of involved in the transaction

Once you have entered all the relevant data Click Save

The data gets stored in and a new page is opened as under

A. AccountingBook creates a unique number to the Receive Payment transaction

B. Click Apply Payment to complete transaction

You can also Edit or Delete this transaction by clicking the related tabs.

Apply Payments page opens once you click on the Apply Payments tab in the New Receive Payment page

A. Select the transaction or you can also select multiple transactions to sum up with the amount paid by the customer

B. Invoice number is showed

C. Indicates the date of transaction

D. Shows the outstanding balance against the invoice

E. You can enter the amount against the invoices to sum up with the amount paid by the customer

F. Click on the Apply Payment to conclude the transaction