How to categorise advance payments on account?

[bbmpro]

Some of my customers make monthly deposits through the year so that when their annual bill is issued the money is already on hand. What is the best way for me to record these payments so they can see their balance in the portal?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Sarah

[Lurch]

Prepayments and credits

Introduction From time to time you may want to assign a prepayment or credit to a client or supplier, without actually allocating it to an invoice. In this guide we will look at how you can assign a credit, hold it on account and assign to an invoice later. In the following example we will look at assigning a client credit. The same principle applies for supplier credits. Adding a New Prepayment From scratch Let's start by locating the client whom you wish to assign the credit to, you can do a …

[bbmpro]

that’s perfect, thank you