Clearing a vendor overpayment

Sep 23, 2009 1 Replies

I'm the lowly treasurer for a local non-profit. I get all the paperwork delivered to me monthly for posting.



Sequence of prior month transactions:


  1. received an invoice from Vendor V for 0.
  2. I recorded it as a payable
  3. I cut a check for the balance due which cleared the payable. The check has cleared through the month-end reconciliation

This month I learned that the person who ordered the item had already paid for it with a $200 charge on his credit card, and will consider it as a contribution – i.e. no refund to him.



Meanwhile this month, the vendor sent us a refund check for $200.



Now I'd like to unscramble and post this in such a way that the $200 refund check shows up in the “Deposits” list, so I can show it in our cash receipts.



Suggestions welcome


I would enter this first payment as the traditional bill / payment. The second payment can be entered as a donation from your company. The third incoming check can be entered as a donation to you or you can invoice the vendor as a customer and deposit it as a payment to you. You will have to enter the vendor as a new customer under customer center. Hope that helps.

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