Summary
How to record a sales discount in Sage Accounts.
Description
If you give your customer a discount, you can record this at the time of entering the customer receipt.
Resolution
- Click Customers, then Customer receipt.
- Select the relevant bank account and customer.
- Enter the date.
- Against the relevant invoice, in the discount column, enter the discount amount.
- If the discount includes VAT, select the Discount inc. VAT? check box.
- Press the Tab key.
On the VAT Cash Accounting scheme, it isn’t possible to record a discount and part pay the invoice. The following message appears: 'Cannot have a part payment with discount'.
- Check the Analysis Total is the amount received.
- Click Save.
The Sales Receipt (SR) and Sales Discount (SD) transactions post to the customer's account and allocate to the relevant sales invoice (SI) transaction.
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