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hrthbookkeeper
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How do we record bounced checks/payments made by the OWNER (paid by us, not the Customer or Vendor)?

We need someone to provide the proper method for documenting returned OWNER payments in QBO. The returned payment was ours; it was not a Customer or Vendor's payment. Our Vendor auto-drafted their monthly payment from our CLOSED bank account, then issued a return payment and return penalty a few days later. Therefore, how do we record a returned payment for this bill and the penalty fee in QuickBooks? Here is the timeline:

 

  • 2/17/23:  We closed our bank account ("Account 1234") and opened a new account ("Account 5678") the same day
  • 2/17/23:  Issue is, one of our Vendor's autopay was not cancelled (SoCalGas)
  • 3/7/23:  SoCalGas drafted their payment of $26.74 from the CLOSED Account 1234
  • 3/13/23:  SoCalGas returned the payment due to "Bank Closed"; now past due $26.74
  • 3/13/23:  SoCalGas added a Return Payment Fee of $7.50 to the bill
  • 5/8/23:  We paid all the past due bills from NEW Account 5678, including the past due balance of $26.74 and return fee $7.50
  • FYI:  The transactions for CLOSED Account 1234 are only in QuickBooks by manual entry; this account was never connected to QBO, so the transactions are not in the transactions list by a bank account connection, so the 3/7/23 payment made is not in the transactions list (though it wouldn't have been anyway because the bank account was closed)
  • NEW Account 5678 is connected to QBO and all the transactions are connected by this bank account connection, so the 5/8/23 payment is there

 

We regularly use the method outlined in the QuickBooksHelp Article titled Record a returned payment or bounced check in QuickBooks Online, but this appears to be only for bounced checks made by Customers.

 

We need the method for recording OWNER bounced checks/payments (OUR bounced payments). We are getting conflicting information from Google searches; I'd rather not list the things we've done and all the errors, because I want a clean slate.

 

Please help, it would be very appreciated!

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