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Payments for Open Item accounts are posted in Direct Bill > Customer Processing > Enter Open Item Payments. Note: For Balance Forward Payments, see Manual Postings. Entering Open Item Payments Posting Zero Payments (applied to matching debits and credits) Fixing Out of Balance Accounts (Account balance does not match sum of open items) Applying Overpayments (payment is greater than invoices applied) Back to top
The customer balance displays at the top left. The unpaid, overpaid, or partially paid invoices are on the right.
7. "Amount to pay this invoice" field:
8. Your cursor will move to the first "Ok?" prompt as shown below.
9. Make sure the "Unapplied" amount is .00 (zero).
10. The cursor will move to the second "Ok?" field as shown below.
When you enter the customer code and press Enter after doing the above steps, the invoice will not show up as unpaid.
Remember to print and update your transaction batch! As show below, the transaction batch shows the payment along with a list of all invoices paid by that transaction. Keep this report. Posting Zero Payments (applied to matching debits and credits) Fixing Out of Balance Accounts (Account balance does not match sum of open items) Applying Overpayments (payment is greater than invoices applied) Back to top of page Back to top of section