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I have a client who has made two part payments against a single invoice, due to an error in the first payment being made which created a shortfall. The balance payment has now been made, settling the invoice in full. However, whenever I go to "Match" the payment in "Bank Transactions" to the invoice, I receive an error stating that the transaction amount is higher than the payment being matched. How do I select both payments to match against the invoice?
Hi Lee,
Thank you for reaching out regarding the issue you're facing with matching two part payments to one invoice in QuickBooks.
This happens because QuickBooks flags the transaction when one of the individual payments is smaller than the total invoice amount, or the amount doesn’t match the bank transaction amount.
Please note that you cannot directly match both payments into a single invoice through bank transactions or directly link both bank transactions to one invoice. You will need to manually match each bank transaction to the invoice accordingly.
You have two ways to do this:
first, Unlink the partial payment and match the two downloaded bank transactions to the same invoice. Here's how:
Second, If the partial payment was already recorded, match the downloaded partial payment to the same partial payment, and match the new payment to settle the outstanding balance against the open invoice.
Please leave us a response if you have other questions or concerns.
Thanks for trying to help, but this just doesn't work.
I should point out that the payments made to me were made by Bank Transfer, rather than directly through the payment link on the original invoice sent - these therefore do not need to be deleted in the customer's profile to start with.
When selecting the first partial payment within "Bank Transactions", I have to expand the payment details to hit Match. Once I do this, it brings up the invoice (with the higher total value). I select the partial payment and hit Match and this is when the original error I described is shown. This does the same regardless of which partial payment I try to match first.
Help!
We appreciate you adding more details about your concern, Lee.
To address this issue, we can use the Receive Payment option to record the invoice payment and match it properly.
Here's how:
Once completed, we can match each partial payment from your bank transactions and link them to the corresponding payments you manually created.
If you have additional questions or clarifications, you can add a comment below. We're here to assist you.

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