Every now and then you have that one extra punctual customer who hands you a check before they have a balance due. It's like a rainy day fund! Except it belongs to someone else, and that someone else maybe has access to an aircraft and spends their rainy day, well, differently than we do...
Anyway, back to this check. You want to record this in their account, but they don't have any open invoices to apply it to. Good news is you can receive that payment and save it until ready to use in the future.
Go to Accounting > Receivables > Accounts Receivables and click on the option in the far right corner of the screen:
In the following screen you'll see a few more options than the prior. In this case, go ahead and click on the following option:
A new screen will pop up and it's here that the magic happens. Fill in the details requested on and Save.
This will then create a Receivable ID and will stay in the Accounting tab, ready to be applied to open invoices in the future!