Enter an Accounts Payable (AP) credit memo or negative invoice
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▼ Enter a Credit Memo

Accounts Payable doesn't track individual credit memos. Instead it adds their amounts to the vendor's total credit balance.

  1. Open AP, Invoices, Credit Memos.
  2. Enter the vendor ID.
  3. Select to apply to Invoice or Open Credit. 
  4. Enter the credit reference, date and amount.
  5. Distribute the amount to the appropriate GL accounts.
  6. Select Post.
▼ Negative Invoice - track credit detail

Use a negative invoice to track credit detail of your vendor open credit.

Enter the negative invoice

  1. Go to AP, Invoices, Enter.
  2.  Select the vendor.
  3. Enter an Invoice # and credit date.
  4. Enter the amount as a negative amount.
  5. Distribute the amount to the appropriate GL accounts.

To apply the negative invoice

▼ Manual Invoice Selection
  1. Go to AP, Checks, Invoice Selection, Manual.
  2. Choose the vendor.
  3. List the invoices.
  4. Select all invoices including the negative invoice.
▼ Enter Payments
  1. Go to AP, Checks, Enter Payments.
  2. Choose the vendor.
  3. Select all invoices including the negative invoice.
    • To apply a full credit, select both the original and negative invoice and post a zero-dollar check

 

 

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