New to QB - recording a deposit made in 2022 from payment received in 2021

it al depends on how you file your taxes as to when the deposit is counted

If you file as a cash basis taxpayer, then income is counted when you receive it, not when it is deposited. So if this is the case receive the money against the invoice with a dec 2021 date

If you are an accrual based taxpayer, then the income is recognized when the invoice is saved and the receipt of the money (this year or next) has nothing to do with it

Thank you. We did everything by paper before and moved to QB in 2022. The Invoice was created and we received payment in DEC 2021 so we recognized the funds in 2021; however, the money was not deposited in the bank account until 2022. So, I need my register in QB to match our bank statements (showing the deposit). My questions is how do I enter the deposit in QB if I do not have a QB invoice to link the payment to? QB will not let me use the "Undeposited Funds" account because that is reserved for QB to hold the funds for QB invoices that have been marked as paid.

Are you saying that I need to create a QB invoice for the paper invoice that we already have?