Split a bulk fee received and account for the transaction cost as an expense

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There’s a step by step guide here - it talks about GoCardless but the principle is exactly the same, you use a dummy “merchant” bank account in QuickFile to represent the provider, show the full amount as income, the fees as an expense, and the settlement payment as a bank transfer.

Accounting for income from a payment service provider

Introduction This guide will help you to reconcile payments from the likes of PayPal, GoCardless, Stripe along with any credit card PDQ service provider and more broadly any payment provider that collects income on your behalf and pays you the net amount, minus their fee. It’s a very common scenario in accounting and it’s very useful to know how to account for these types of transactions. The Basics Obviously the key thing here is that the amounts received don’t exactly match your invoices, and…