Importing receive payments into QuickBooks

You can import receive payments from text files or from Excel spreadsheets directly into QuickBooks using the Zed Axis software.  Download and install the Zed Axis software on your computer
  1. Open your QuickBooks company file as Administrator and open Zed Axis
  2. Select your text file or spreadsheet which contains the receive payments that you want to import.
  3. Set up the a Mapping of the columns in your invoice import file to the corresponding fields in QuickBooks, as shown below
  4. Click Import and your invoices will be directly added to your QuickBooks company file.

NB. To import a payment that pays multiple invoices you need to have one row for each invoice paid, and to group them together by using the same reference number. Be sure that the Total Amount equals the sum of the payment amounts or discount amounts.

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The following fields are the principal fields when importing receive payments into QuickBooks:

 QuickBooks field

Format

 Description

CustomerRefFullName

StrType

209 Chars

MANDATORY FIELD FOR ZA

Customer Name as appears in QuickBooks, if ZA cannot find a Customer then it will create a new customer account.

ARAccountRef

StrType

159 Chars

Refers to an accounts receivable account in the QuickBooks file. Name must match QuickBooks

TxnDate

DateType

The date of the transaction. If missing QuickBooks will prefill TxnDate with the date of the last-saved transaction of the same type.

RefNumber

StrType

20 Chars

MANDATORY

A string of characters that refers to this transaction and that can be arbitrarily changed by the QuickBooks user.

ApplyToInvoiceRef  Str11 MANDATORY if IsAutoApply is not mapped. The Invoice reference number to which the payment will be applied, if paying multiple invoices you should have multiple lines in the same ReceivePayment transaction..more

TotalAmount

 

Total amount of money received.  The sum of the PaymentAmount amounts  cannot be greater than the TotalAmount, or you will receive an error.

Payment Method

StrType

31 chars

A customers payment method, for example, cash, check, or Master Card. Should match the payment types set in QuickBooks.

Memo

StrType

4095 Chars

Description associated with the payment

The beginning of this memo will appear in reports that show details of this receive payment.

DepositToAccountRef

 

Refers to the account where these funds will be (or have been) deposited. If not provided, it will default to Undeposited Funds.

IsAutoApply

true or false

MANDATORY if Apply to is not mapped

If IsAutoApply is true, QuickBooks applies TotalAmount to any outstanding transaction that exactly matches TotalAmount. If no exact match is found, the payment is applied to the customer jobs outstanding transactions, beginning with the oldest one.

If IsAutoApply is false, QuickBooks receives the payment but does not apply it to any outstanding transaction. Instead, the amount will appear as a credit on the customer job’s next transaction...more

PaymentAmount

AmtType

10 digits

Represents the amount assigned to a particular receivable.

DiscountAccount

Strtype

159 chars

Refers to the account where this discount is tracked

 

Error - "You need to delete this transaction from the deposit before you can edit its name or amount." - This message is saying that the Receive Payment transaction you are trying to import has already been deposited into a bank account and QuickBooks is not permitting you to edit something that is already deposited, this is standard QuickBooks behaviour.

 

Article ID: 60, Created On: 10/21/2011, Modified: 10/21/2011