Order payment in wrong bank account
Overview
Imported orders from a specific customer has their payments going in to the wrong bank account.
Resolution/Solution
There are three potential workarounds for this issue depending on the circumstances.
Workaround 1
Journal between the two bank accounts, adding a note as to why you are doing this, e.g. incorrect amount from channel. If this has happened to multiple sales orders, this might be the simplest method.
Workaround 2
If this is a one off event then the easiest way to do this is to:
- Go to the customer record and select the statement tab.
- Click Edit.
- Select the erroneous payment in the top right grid.
- Click Actions and select Cancel Allocations (Alloc From).
- Click Yes and Continue.
- Click Actions and select Delete Payment.
- If the payment has been reconciled you will need to:
- Select the payment in the left hand grid
- Click Actions and select Refund Payment or Credit and follow the prompts.
- The payment type should be set to Match Source.
- Click Actions and select New Payment.
- In the dialog box enter the values as required remembering to select the appropriate bank account.
- In the top right grid green select the newly entered payment.
- In the bottom grid select all of the invoices this is going to be allocated to.
- Click Action and select Allocate Payments / Credits to Invoice(s).
- Click Yes and Continue.
Note: this option will not work if the payment you are cancelling has been reconciled in the bank.
Workaround 3
If this a long term issue for a particular customer with regular repeated occurrences the following may be used as a workaround. it will force the system to use a specific bank account for all imported orders IF the customer belongs to a specific company class.
- Create a new company class for the affected customer(s) that mirrors the customer class to which they currently belong.
- Go to the customer record, click Edit and in the Company Class dropdown select the one you have just created.
- Click Save Company.
- Go to [System Data | System Payment Types].
- Click Edit followed by +New.
- Fill in the payment type and currency as required and select the company class you have just created in the from the dropdown menu.
- Select the bank account you wish this payment type to use for customers belonging to this company class.
- Enable Auto Bank.
- Click Save Screen.