Find the prepayment in the AP or bank register, right click, edit payment, and use it to clear the later invoice.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 6:45 pm Eric H. Bowen via gnucash-user, < gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: > I was late with my property taxes this year and incurred a penalty. I > had earlier entered the billed amount as an invoice payable to the tax > collector. I finally got the funds together to pay the amount, including > penalty, in full. I entered it as one payment transaction, of course, > since it was one e-check, and now it's showing up in my "Accounts > Payable" as two transactions, one for the remaining billed amount (I had > made partial payments earlier), and a separate transaction for $136.63 > representing the penalty and interest which appears as an unassigned > pre-payment. > > OK so far. Well, now that I know the total penalty I entered another > invoice for that amount. Fine. Now I want to pay the invoice with the > pre-payment. I go to the payment screen and the pre-payment shows up > there. But I can find no way to apply it to the new invoice. How do I > close this [expletive!] out? > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.