Warning: You cannot apply an amount greater than the total payments plus any existing credits

When selecting invoices to be paid on the Receive Payments screen and the total of all invoices exceeds the figure in the Payment amount field, you will get the following message:

Warning: You cannot apply an amount greater than the total payments plus any existing credits when creating a payment in QuickBooks

Intuit recommends more than one solution for this problem. The first solution may solve your problem, or you may need to try all of them to resolve the issue. For best results, perform the solutions in the order shown.

Solution 1: Apply a discount or credit to one or more invoices

Solution 2: Change which invoices are selected to be paid

Solution 3: Change the figure in the Payment amount field