How To Create A Customer Deposit

In the event your customer is prepaying upfront for an order or submitting a payment for orders not yet invoiced, you can create a receivable without identifying an invoice.

Create your Receivable as you normally would and enter the payment amount, but do not select the Add New Item button to pick an invoice.

Click Save and your customer's payment will be added to the Receivables List as Unused.

When you are ready to apply the deposit to an invoice, simply edit the receivable and now use the Add Item button to input the invoice(s) that will be paid.