How to Record a Delayed Credit in Quickbooks
Does your business owe a customer or client money? Maybe the customer overpaid, or perhaps he or she requested a refund. Regardless, you should record the money owed as a delayed credit to the respective customer’s invoice. Using Quickbooks, you can easily record a delayed credit in just a few simple steps.
Steps to Recording a Delayed Credit
In Quickbooks Online — the cloud-based version of Intuit’s popular accounting software — you can record a delayed credit by clicking the (+) icon on the main screen’s toolbar and choosing “Delayed Credit” under the “Customers” menu. From here, you’ll need to complete several fields about the delayed credit, some of which include the customer’s name, the date, the products or services associated with the delayed credit, the dollar amount and quantity. When finished, click “Save and close.”
After creating the delayed credit, you’ll need to apply it to the customer’s invoice. This is done by going back to the main Quickbooks screen and clicking the (+) icon, followed by “Invoice” under the “Customers” menu. On the right side, you should see a list of all delayed credits, including the delayed credit that you just recently created. After selecting the customer and invoice, click “Add” next to the delayed credit.
If you need to create multiple delayed credits for multiple customers, simply repeat these steps. Quickbooks allows you to quickly and easily record delayed credits.
Delayed Credit vs Delayed Charge: What’s the Difference?
Some business owners assume that a delayed credit is the same as a delayed charge, but this isn’t necessarily true. A delayed charge is essentially the opposite of a delayed credit. With a delayed charge, you are delaying a request for payment from a customer or vendor.
You can think of delayed charges as being “expected revenue.” In other words, the customer or vendor will make a payment to your business in the future. If you run a landscaping company, for example, you may use a delayed charge to record expected revenue from your customers. After completing the landscaping service, you can go ahead and record the delayed charge until the customer has paid.
Recording a delayed charge in Quickbooks is very similar to recording a delayed credit. You click the “Customers” menu, choose “Delayed charge” and complete the given fields. Of course, you’ll also need to add the delayed charge to the customer’s invoice — just like would when recording a delayed credit.
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