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parksbarbie
Level 4

Apply Prepaid deposit

Last year my client prepaid a deposit for a hotel event that took place last week. We put the payment in an asset account -Deferred hotel fees. To move it this year to the expense account, I created a GJE credit Deferred asset acct and debit the Hotel expense account. This corrected the balance sheet but now the hotel expense is increasing the expense account and I need it to reduce it. How do I apply this as a payment towards the final hotel bill?

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Best answer March 27, 2023

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Rainflurry
Level 14

Apply Prepaid deposit

@parksbarbie 

 

In this case, IMO, the easiest way is to use a journal entry: debit Accounts Payable, credit Deferred Hotel Fees.  Select the hotel under 'Name' on the journal entry.  You now have a credit that can be applied to the hotel bill. 

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Rustler
Level 15

Apply Prepaid deposit

GJE does not work well in QB, and often the GJE is not included in reporting, best to not use them.

 

Create a service item called pre-paid deposit and link it to the deferred hotel fee asset account.

 

When you enter the bill for the stay, use the pre-paid item, qty is negative one, and the amount you pre-paid, the will will recalculate to the amount due, the pre-paid asset account will zero out.

parksbarbie
Level 4

Apply Prepaid deposit

If I add this to the bill it does not ask for service item- hotel bill that we owe is entered as category, description, amount, customer, class. Would I enter the defered category and -$xxx to zero out the deferred account and subtract our downpayment from the bill?

Rainflurry
Level 14

Apply Prepaid deposit

@parksbarbie 

 

In this case, IMO, the easiest way is to use a journal entry: debit Accounts Payable, credit Deferred Hotel Fees.  Select the hotel under 'Name' on the journal entry.  You now have a credit that can be applied to the hotel bill. 

FritzF
Moderator

Apply Prepaid deposit

Hello, Rainflurry.

 

I appreciate you for always sharing your knowledge about QuickBooks. This will definitely help other users as well in the future. Please keep on posting here in the Community.

 

Stay safe and have a great rest of the day.

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