Dear Quickbooks,

I appreciate the prompt replies to my post, however each of the replies is focused on just a piece of my question and doesn't address the entirety of my question. 

I understand how to enter a bill and post a credit to a vender and I understand how to enter a tenant as a customer and accept a payment. What I can't figure out is how to address my particular issue which is that the credit which is showing up on an invoice from my HOA is also a rental payment. Leaving the credit on my HOA account does not apply the payment to my renter's invoice and I can't figure out how to accomplish both of those things in the same transaction or series of transactions. Because this is a vacation rental and the payments are typically partial payments for future rentals and I might receive multiple reservation payments in the current month for future rental dates, I need to be sure that each tenant's accounts receivable is credited correctly.  Please re-read my initial post and advise how to accomplish both of the issues - entries that show the credits that have been applied to my HOA account but have not been received by me and simultaneously crediting the correct tenant for the payment(s) that have been received by the HOA. The renter payments are basically being kept in a HOA holding account until an actual check is sent to me at a later date. But in the meantime, the renters accounts need to reflect the date and amount of the payment that has been received. 

Thank you in advance for giving me the guidance that covers the entire equation -

Angie