@Rasa-LilaM
Please Learn from this input. Please Stop recommending that people use AP manually on a Check, because in Desktop, that isn't supposed to be a Check at all. If that is AP, you use the Vendor function of Pay Bills. You have this backwards, starting with the banking and using the wrong Transaction Type and the wrong function. You don't start with Banking, for paying vendor bills (AP). You start with Vendor Menu and the Pay Bills function, and the Bills have to exist already.
@hcuster
Let's review: "I have a client that I split certain profits with,"
Which makes that a Vendor Name, and you need to honor that the name is Separate for purposes of tracking and reporting.
"but I also charge that client an administrative fee. How do I handle paying athis client (Vendor?) and have the admin fee deducted from the payment that I make?"
You are describing Barter so make a Bank account and name it Barter. You are describing that, for convenience, we will avoid trading Funds for the gross, and end up at Net for the banking.
"So, I need the admin fee to show up as income,"
Charge the Customer. You can Invoice them, and then "receive Payment" for the amount being Bartered and Deposit to the Barter Bank. Now this Bank has a positive value you can use to Pay the Vendor Name.
"and have the full split profit amount show up in expenses (without the admin deducted)."
That's called Gross. Gross = in full. Now you are ready to use Banking menu > Write Check and Pay the Vendor Name from the Real Bank. Enter the data like this:
Commission you owe as Gross (in full) Expense and as a Positive value here
Second line, Negative and the Barter Bank here and that bartered amount (= that Holdback)
= The Net to pay, now.
And for that one date, barter Bank should end at 0, because that is what this means.
Is there a way to do this?
