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How Can I Transfer an Erroneous Payment Between Clients?

Oh no! You've taken a Stripe payment (or a Tyro payment, if you are located in Australia) for a client, but you've recorded it on the wrong invoice in Power Diary! Do not worry, this article will help you find the solution.

Note💡

In case of a manually added payment (like Cash, Direct Deposit, EFTPOS, and so on), this payment can be just deleted from the invoice where it was applied incorrectly. 

Please go to the relevant section for your scenario:

The payment is for the correct client, but you've recorded it against the wrong invoice

In this case, it is just a matter of unallocating the payment from the incorrect invoice and re-allocating it to the correct one.  

Please refer to this knowledgebase article about Adding and Managing Payments to learn how to un-allocate and then re-allocate the payment to the correct invoice.

The payment is for the incorrect invoice and client, but the clients are related

If your clients are related (e.g. husband and wife, or siblings, or parent and child), then follow these steps: 

  1. You can make the clients contacts for each other.  
  2. Once that is done, un-allocate the payment from the incorrect invoice.  
  3. Go to the correct invoice, and select the Contact in the "Payable By" field.  
  4. Save the invoice.  
  5. You now will be able to click on Add Payment and select the Existing Payment
  6. Save the invoice again.

The payment is for the incorrect invoice and the incorrect client

When the clients aren't related, you can make use of an unrelated payment to  transfer the credit between the two invoices. You might choose to use the "Cash" payment method, or you might prefer to create a new Payment Method just for this purpose. You will create a positive payment and a negative payment for the same amount, so they effectively cancel each other out.

1. Create a new payment method:

  • Go to Settings → Custom Lists → Payment Methods
  • Click on Add Payment Method
  • Give your new payment method a name, eg "Credit Transfer", 
  • and Save.

2. Now on the first invoice (with the incorrect payment) add a new payment:

  • Click on Add Payment → select "Credit Transfer"
  • Add a Payment Note or an internal Invoice Note to make a record of how you've transferred the payment to the other invoice.  Eg you might say "Payment incorrectly recorded here, and transferred to invoice 123 for client A"
  • Set the Payment Amount to the negative of the amount to be transferred (usually the full amount of the payment already on the invoice)
  • Set the Payment Amount to the negative of the amount to be transferred.

3. On the second invoice, add a new payment:

  • Click on Add Payment → select "Credit Transfer"
  • Add a Payment Note or an internal Invoice Note to make a record of how you are transferring payment from the other invoice
  • Set the Payment Amount to the positive amount to be transferred. 
  • Save the changes.

Hint 💡

Please note that when you email/print the receipt invoice, your clients do not see whatever you write in the "Notes" column of the payment. So you are welcome to write full information in there without concern for breach of confidentiality.

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