The easiest way is to create an income account commission income, and a service item named the same which is linked to that income account

When you get the commission check, use a sales receipt and the commission income item to record the receipt

How would I keep track of the commission owed to me if I just do a sales receipt when the commission check comes in?

When you create a sales receipt, instead of using the deposit to the bank account, you can also create/use commission due from as other current assets type account. when you receive a separate commission check payment, apply to that account.

@Rustler, if you are doing a Sales Receipt, it asks for a Customer name. For my purposes, this commission check may span across several customers (and I don't always know how much of the commissions apply to each one-and for my purposes, I am not sure I care which)  Is there a different way to do this? (Have created the sales item and the corresponding income type). Sales tax will not be applied, since it was taxed before it came to me. It should just reflect on my income statement. Hope I am describing this in such a way that makes sense. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

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@Rustler wrote:

The easiest way is to create an income account commission income, and a service item named the same which is linked to that income account

 

When you get the commission check, use a sales receipt and the commission income item to record the receipt

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Found my answer in one of your other posts with a similar situation:

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/reports-and-accounting/i-would-create-a-service-it...

Thank you!