A question about Sage Accounts?

When my customers book my services they pay me ￡200 deposit. When they give me final numbers and I do their invoice, how do I take this off the final figure so that their final invoice shows the actual amount that they are due to pay? Can you put a minus amount in, it needs to show on one invoice to make it simple for the customers. Sorry, I'm a Sage idiot!!

A question about Sage Accounts?
you cannot enter minus figures into an invoice in Sage. you will have to enter the invoice for the full amount.. i am led to believe this feature is to be introduced in the new version. with regards to posting the deposit, you can post a sales payment on account when the money is received and allocate this when the invoice is updated. this will reduce the amount due and leave the rest to be paid as normal. to post a payment on account go to bank%26gt;customer and type in the amount in the top amount box at the right. save this and you will get a message about it being unallocated. this is fine, as you will be allocating it at a later date. you may find the 'F1' help key helpful also in the program.
Reply:support worker sum it up great -- except besides the prompt payment discount - i would also have a penalty percentage for payments received after a certain date.
Reply:Well Karen, they are paying you a lot of money and using sage you should know how to balance your accounts.

You can keep to one invoice and show a minus as you said.

Your invoice will show total fees at the top, for services / professional fees your next line could show LESS deposit of ￡200 giving you a sub-total and finally the last line showing amount outstanding to pay.

Another little hint you could try to increase chance of business is to increase your fees BUT on your invoice state that if the invoice is paid within seven days of the account you will give 10% reduction for the prompt payment. Thats been tried and tested and it works

Best wishes

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