Payment in advance for materials

Hope you can help,
A customer has paid an amount into my account so that I can go and buy materials for them to be installed, not a payment for labour/payment from customer !!, how would this be annotated in QF in “Banking” tagging the payment as I don’t want to be charged tax on this as it’s not a payment for work done.
Many thanks
Andy

Hi @andyburns

If you’ve received a ‘pre-payment’, it can be logged in a few ways to reflect on their account. As you’ve mentioned tagging, the way you would do this is as follows:

  1. Click ‘Tag Me!’ and select 'Payment from a customer’s
  2. Select ‘Pay down multiple invoices’ and enter the clients name
  3. Enter the clients name
  4. Tick ‘Assign to account’ and complete the process.

This will then show up as a pre-payment against this client. When it comes to tax, this isn’t included in your Profit & Loss report (and therefore your earnings). If you’re VAT registered and using the cash accounting scheme, it will show up there as this is a requirement for the scheme itself.

I hope that makes sense?