How to handle deposits

Question asked by Edward Syrett 10 years ago

One of my clients is interested in using ClearBooks. Their process is as follows:

  1. Issue a quote.
  2. Customer accepts a quote and pays a deposit
  3. Work is completed
  4. Issue a invoice for the balance.
  5. Customer pays invoice amount.

How would ClearBooks handle this process?

Thanks,

Ed.

4 Replies

Hi Ed

As Kevin indicates the payment on account POA (or unallocated cash) process within CB does not fully handle VAT that would be payable on the deposit if your client is VAT registered. This is currently being rectified by the developers.

There are workarounds however, outside this feature, and, something that's often forgotten, (by me recently) is that if the customer is VAT registered, or the customer asks, the supplier would actually have to raise a VAT invoice for the deposit anyway making the POA process unnecessary.

Let us know if VAT is an issue (and what sort of VAT scheme is being used) and we'll suggest workarounds.

Hi Ed - given that your client is providing an invoice when the work is completed, then I'd suggest they also issue one for the deposit. When the final invoice is done, you could use one line on the invoice for the full contract charge and a second line, with negative figures, to represent the deposit already paid.

Hi All,

In this case, I think the customer is a consumer and not VAT registered.

Cheers,

Ed.

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