Can you pay a 50% deposit on an invoice?

Welcome to the Community, leslief-wataugah. 

You can record a partial payment in QuickBooks Online. This way, the 50% payment will be registered, and the 50% will be tagged as a remaining balance.

Here's how:

1. Open the Bill that needs to be paid. 

2. Click on Make payment at the top. 

3. Enter the 50% of the payment in the amount section. 

Once you're ready to pay the remaining 50%, just reopen the Bill by going to the Expense tab and make a payment again.

You can also look at this article for further details: Enter bills and record bill payments in QuickBooks Online 

Keep in touch with me if you still need more help with this. I'll be here. Keep safe!

Thanks for the information but I'm a little confused.  The response sounds like the process if we issued an invoice to a client and they want to pay a portion.  That's not the situation.  We have received a bill and they want us to pay them a 50% deposit.  Can I pay 50% of a bill and, if so, how?  Is the same process used?

Sorry.  I reread your message.  It sounds simple but I don't see a "make payment" on the bill screen.  I see "schedule online payment" or "mark as paid".  And the link to the "how to record and pay bills" doesn't show how to make partial payment.  Where is the link to "make payment"?

THANK YOU!!!  Especially for the screenshots and step by step.  So easy I couldn't figure it out.

Good morning, @leslief-wataugah. 

Thanks for reaching back out to us. I'm so glad we were able to provide you with some visuals and steps to fix the problem. 

For future reference, you can check out our tutorials page to help you navigate through your account to help you use certain features. 

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Hello, I want to do the same thing, show Payment #1 and Payment #2. I realize I am 5 years later and QBO is a little different.

I do books for a GC and most of the subcontractors are 50% now and the rest when the job is done. I can just enter 50% of the amount but it leaves an open balance when I select "pay bills". I don't want them to show up there till I am ready to pay the remaining amount.

Is there a way with the newer version to do that?

Yes, there's a way to record partial payments so that an open balance doesn't appear on the Pay Bills page in the newer version of QuickBooks Online (QBO), @dsc5taxshop. I'd be happy to guide you through the process.

First, let's record a Bill with the specific 50% amount:

1. Go to the + New icon and select Bill.
2. Enter the name of the subcontractor, then enter the 50% amount.
3. Fill out the required details, then click Save and Close.

Next, pay the bill with the exact 50% amount:

1. Go to the + New icon and select Pay Bills.
2. Select the specific subcontractor.
3. Choose the bill you created earlier and enter the exact amount to pay the 50%.
4. Click Save and Close.

When you're ready to pay the remaining amount, create another bill with the other 50% amount. This ensures that the open balance doesn't appear on the Pay Bills page.

Additionally, you can generate a report with vendor totals in QBO to view all payments made to your vendors.

Feel free to return to this thread with any other questions or concerns about accurately recording payments for subcontractors. Have a productive day.