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The best approach to user customer A payment balance to "pay" customer B invoices?

  • January 28, 2026
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Hello,

       We have two customers who share the same boss. Customer A has a payment with some remaining balance, while Customer B has some open invoices. The customer has informed us that they no longer want to issue checks and have asked us to use Customer A's remaining balance to offset Customer B's open invoices.

     I cannot simply void Customer A's payment because it has already been partially applied to some of Customer A's own invoices.

     What is the best way to accomplish this?

Best answer by Marat43

Hi,

One possible approach could be to use a Parent/Child relationship between Customer A and Customer B:

  1. Set Customer A as the parent account and Customer B as the child account.

  2. Enable Consolidate Balance on the child account.

This setup allows you to apply a payment from Customer A (parent) to invoices of Customer B (child) without voiding or reversing the original payment that was already partially applied.

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  • Jr Varsity I
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  • January 28, 2026

Hi,

One possible approach could be to use a Parent/Child relationship between Customer A and Customer B:

  1. Set Customer A as the parent account and Customer B as the child account.

  2. Enable Consolidate Balance on the child account.

This setup allows you to apply a payment from Customer A (parent) to invoices of Customer B (child) without voiding or reversing the original payment that was already partially applied.


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  • Captain II
  • January 29, 2026

@Marat43 Thank you, but they are actually not parent-child relationship. And, normally , they pay their invoices separately.  After consulting some accounting pro, we dealt in below way:
1, Create credit memo to offset all customer B invoices.
2, Create same amount Debit memo to use cusotmer A’s remaining payment.