I currently use stripe to capture my credit card sales. Stripe will batch the payments and deposit the day(s) payments into our bank account. We short ship a lot of our product so what happens is we will receive payment for four transactions but only three of the orders may be fulfilled and have pushed over to QBO. Currently I take the payment for product that hasn't shipped yet and place it in prepaid unearned income (liability). The issue I have with this is I then have to undo the transaction to when the order is fulfilled and then go through and split the payment and account for the stripe processing fee.
The other option is I can go in to the prepaid unearned income liability account and then edit it and apply the payment to sale of product income account. But I don't believe this accounting for the stripe transaction fee.
The perfect solution would be that when I first split the stripe bank deposit and have applied the stripe transaction fee that I just apply the payment as a credit to the customer. This would allow me to see that the customer is still owed product and when the order synchs over to QBO then the transaction is just applied and since the transaction comes in as paid by credit card the account would automatically balance it self out. What would be the procedure to do this?
Or would I just apply it as sale of product income and then when the transaction does push over it just shows as invoice shows as paid and the payment as closed but the payment is already applied. This obviously is not following gap as I am not categorizing the payment as a liability until the invoice and payment are pushed over.
