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Crystalynn Shelton
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Crystalynn Shelton

Crystalynn Shelton is a licensed CPA and small business advisor specializing in financial accounting software training, coaching, and consulting. She has written two Amazon Bestsellers, Mastering QuickBooks 2020 and Mastering QuickBooks 2021. In addition to having experience as a small business owner, she has more than 20 years' experience in providing accountancy consultancy in the entertainment, oil and gas, education, and computer technology fields. Crystalynn is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and has taught accounting, bookkeeping, and QuickBooks courses for the last 12 years at the University of California at Los Angeles Extension. When she is not in the classroom, Crystalynn enjoys trying new restaurants and curling up with a good book!
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Recording customer payments

If you record income using a sales invoice, you will receive payment based on the terms you have agreed with your customer. When customer payments are received, you must apply payments to an outstanding sales invoice to reduce the accounts receivable balance. As mentioned previously, you can accept multiple payment methods in QuickBooks, including check, cash, Apple Pay, Visa, Mastercard, Discover Card, Amex, ACH, PayPal, and Venmo. To learn more about managing credit card payments, refer to Chapter 16, Handling Special Transactions in QuickBooks Online.

Follow these steps to receive payment from a customer:

  1. Click on the + New menu.
  2. Navigate to Receive payment, located below CUSTOMERS, as indicated in Figure 7.14:
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Figure 7.14: Navigating to Receive payment

  1. Complete the fields, as indicated in Figure 7.15, to record the customer payment:
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Figure 7.15: The Receive Payment window

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Crystalynn Shelton

Crystalynn Shelton is a licensed CPA and small business advisor specializing in financial accounting software training, coaching, and consulting. She has written two Amazon Bestsellers, Mastering QuickBooks 2020 and Mastering QuickBooks 2021. In addition to having experience as a small business owner, she has more than 20 years' experience in providing accountancy consultancy in the entertainment, oil and gas, education, and computer technology fields. Crystalynn is an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and has taught accounting, bookkeeping, and QuickBooks courses for the last 12 years at the University of California at Los Angeles Extension. When she is not in the classroom, Crystalynn enjoys trying new restaurants and curling up with a good book!
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