Can't Apply Credit Memo?

Good evening, @Adalius.

Thank you for explaining what's going on. Let's try and get this fixed for you.

Before we get started, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions.

Is automatically Apply Credits turned off? If you don't know where to find this, I can show you.

1. Go to Account and Settings.
2. Select Advanced.
3. Under Advanced in Automation, make sure Automatically Apply Credits is On. 

This can cause your credit to not apply to your invoice. 

Are the two invoices being tracked together or in different projects?

If the invoices are being tracked on two different projects, they will be tracked separately even though they may be under the same customer. 

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I tried doing the recieve payments both with auto credits on and off, it did not seem to matter which way it was set. 

As noted in the post, they are in different projects but under the same customer.

Thanks for getting back to us, @Adalius.

Since the credit comes from a different project, the ability to apply it to the other invoice is currently. To rectify this, manually recreate the credit memo so you can link it to the correct invoice as a workaround. Before doing so, you need to go back to the first payment and edit the amount to correct one to remove the credit.

Here's how:

1. Go to the Sales menu at the left pane to get to the Customers page.
2. Under the customer's name, click the project name where the credit was created. 
3. In the Transaction List section, select the payment to open the transaction. 
4. Change the amount to the correct one, then hit Save and close. 

This will remove the credit from this specific project and the invoice will be marked as paid.

After that, here's how to manually recreate the credit memo:

1. Go to the +New at the top left to get to the Credit Memo.
2. Pick the other project name if the Customer drop-down.
3. Enter the item and the overpayment amount.
4. Once done, hit Save and close.

If the automatically Apply Credits feature is turned on, the credit will auto-apply to the payment. If not, here's how to link them:

1. Go the bank to the Customers page and select the other project's name.
2. Select the payment to open the transaction.
3. Place a checkmark on the credit and hit Save and close.  

I'll be adding these articles for future reference:

How to Record Customer Credit: Credit Memos & Balances.

Enter and apply a credit memo or delayed credit.

I want to make sure everything is taken care of for you, so please let me know if you have any other issues or concerns. I'm always here to help. Have a good one!

To do what you're saying it says I have to remove it from the bank deposit first. Will doing that mess up any reconciled bank feeds (since this whole issue occurred in October & December's payments respectively)?

Hello there, @Adalius.

Following the steps provided by my colleague may change your previous reconciliations. However, you can reconcile the transactions manually after the changes to make sure your books are accurate. 

Here's how to undo the reconciliation: 

1. On the left pane, select Accounting.
2. Choose Chart of Accounts.
3. Find the account and in the ACTION column, click View register.
4. Locate each transaction you see on the reconciliation report and click on it.
5. Select the box and keep clicking it until the box is blank. This removes the transaction from the reconciliation.
6. Click the Save button.
7. Hit Yes to confirm.

Do the same thing on other transactions until you’re done. To reconcile it manually, click on the Reconcile field until it changes to R. 

Another option you have is to create a journal entry to offset the credit. Before we proceed with the steps you want to use, I highly suggest consulting your accounting professional for guidance and for other ways to record the credit. 

For more reference, you can use the following articles to remove an individual transaction from a completed reconciliation and record a journal entry: 

• Undo reconciliations

• Create a journal entry

Keep me posted if you have any other QuickBooks related questions. I'll be happy to help you some more. 

This didn't work. Following Fritz's instructions, I now have an open credit memo for 136.14 that shows up under the customer's transaction list. If I open the underpaid invoice and click receive payment (or alternately go into the actual payment that they made for when that 2nd check came in), there is still no 'Credits' section showing, and thus no way to apply the credit. 

So I finally got this solved by taking Grace's instructions, but those didn't quite work out either. After undoing the changes Fritz suggested and *then* doing Grace's plan to make a new receive payment with a 0 amount received rather than trying to edit the existing receive payment from the last check it finally showed the credit. 

That seems like it should have been way easier than it was.

My customer pays several invoices with one check. With a recent check we had given them a general credit and they reduced their payment by that amount. I did a credit memo but I don't see how to apply it on the "Customer Payment" page.

Where is Account and Settings?

Hi, @Spud48.

You can apply a credit memo to the customer payment by simply following the steps below. 

1. Click the (+) New icon in the upper-right hand corner.

2. Select Receive Payment.

3. Choose your customer's name.

4. Select the Invoice under the Outstanding Transactions section and the Credit Note under Credits.

5. Click Save and close.

Also, you can check out the screenshot below for the Account and Settings location.

For your future reference, click this link to know how to apply for payment from another customer's credit memo: Apply payment from another customer's credit memo.

Please let me know if you have other concerns. Take care!