Hi! I was wondering if you could answer my question about receiving payments for vendor credit memos. I use QuickBooks for my friend's heating/air conditioning business and he receives credits in his back account for supplies purchased. I do not know how to receive a payment for a vendor. I understand that I can do a credit memo for that vendor, but QuickBooks does not seem to let me apply a deposit to that vendor to match the credit memo. Please help!
Vendor credits are used for reducing unpaid bills. In your case, it sounds like you get a vendor refund after the bill's been paid. All you need to do to book a vendor refund is to enter the vendor information in the Make Deposit screen (
Banking > Make Deposits). Enter the vendor in the
Received From box, and enter the expense account you used when you paid the vendor in the
From Account box.
You can’t enter a Customer: Job in the Make Deposit screen, so if you’re doing job costing you’ll need to enter a journal entry instead (Company > Make General Journal Entries). In this case, the debit would be to your checking account and the credit would be to your expense account.
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