Re: [SL] Same vendor and customer

[Jeff R. <je...@jr...>]

Hi Stuart

Why even set him up as a vendor if it's just a service fee once every 
payroll. Just create a "service fee" income account and tick the 
Expense/Asset button under Payables. That will make it appear in the 
drop down list when you are processing the employees paycheque. Then 
simply enter a negative amount on one line of the AP transaction when 
you make the guys paycheque and choose the "Service Fee" account. The 
transaction will still be posted against all the correct expense 
accounts but the service fee will then be left in the bank account and 
registered as income. Sort of as if he paid it out of his pocket. When 
you print the AP transaction it will show the Service fee as a deduction 
from his paycheque so there is no need for an extra invoice/receipt.

Jeff


Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> Hello, Is it impossible to link a vendor account and a customer account?
> We have an employee for whom we are required to withhold child support
> payments. We can also take a service fee from the employee's pay for
> forwarding the child support payments to the state. The service fee is a
> form of income, so we fill out an AR transaction for that. The
> employee's pay is an AP transaction. Unfortunately, it seems that it's
> impossible to link those transactions because the employee as the
> VENDOR, to whom we pay wages, cannot be linked to the employee as the
> CUSTOMER, who pays us the service fee. 
>
> Does anyone know how to get around this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>