How can I see my income by type?

Hello,

In my business I fully utilise

'Sales receipts;' - for direct spot cash sales

'Invoice;' - for goods supplied that will be paid later

'Estimates;' - for quotations that will possibly turn into an invoice. 

Anyway when an Invoice is paid/partially paid by a customer it appears as a 'payment'. My issue is the following.

Ocassionally I need to present a sales report of the month so far and in particular 'actual cash collected'. Due to the nature of the way QBO is setup it is broken down into 3 revenue streams to take in. 

Sales Receipt

Invoice

Payment

It is simple to filter out Sales Receipt; just select Sales Receipt and 'This month'

Invoice is the same process but then I do a simple subraction from total invoice sales at the bottom of the page less the outstanding balance to get actual funds received. 

Now the interesting one; Payments. Firstly there is no option really for 'Payments' so I've found 'All Transactions' to be the most useful option and 'This Month' selected. 

The problem is that I need to asertain the Invoices that have been paid in the current month (say October) but were issued in months prior (ie. September, august etc). I can't seem to find a way to do that unless I manually add each invoice one by one and on top of that I need to go into each payment because I cannot otherwise see the actual date the invoice was issued. QBO will only display the date the payment was made.

Is there a way to filter create a report that shows me monies received in the current month but for invoices issued in the previous months? 

Hope the above makes sense. 

Cheers. 

Yasbas