Legend tip: How do I write an invoice off to bad debt?

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• Start the receipt entry process as you normally would by entering the appropriate posting date and pulling up the customer to whom you will be writing off the bad debt. 
• At the “<cr>On Account,…” prompt press RETURN or ENTER to take you to the payment entry screen. 
• Enter a zero payment record, filling in the rest of the payment fields as you wish. You may want to enter a tracking number in the Check Number field, but it is not required. You might also want to enter a comment of “Bad debt write off” just for clarification.
• At the “<cr>Continue, A/R or Journal Entry” prompt enter a J to select the Journal Entry routine.
• Enter the appropriate general ledger branch code and G/L number (the G/L number to which the bad debt write-off will be applied). If your G/L number is not called Bad Debt, you may want to enter “Bad debt write off” or something similar in the Enter Comment for Receipt field.
• Enter the dollar amount you want to write off as a negative number (should be setup as an Expense account). For example if you want to write off $500.00, you would enter –50000 (remember, we assume two places to the right of the decimal point). 
• You will now be able to clear invoices using that balance amount.
• Update the account

You are now free to continue entering regular payments or end out of the program.

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