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1. In the Customer field, enter or select the name of the customer from whom you received the payment.

Note: If you receive an alert message If this customer has outstanding unapplied credit memos, an alert message will appear. You'll have the opportunity to immediately settle the credit memos against any of the customer's open invoices or settle them at a later date. See To apply a customer credit (from the Receive Payments window) for more information.

2. After you enter a customer name, some default entries appear automatically in the top half of the window. You can make changes to these entries, if you want.
3. In the Amount Received field, enter the amount the customer paid you.
4. Enter the payment method that the customer used to make this payment. Click the arrow to view a list of choices. Click Details to enter information about the payment method.
5. Enter a description of the transaction in the Memo field. This description will appear on various BusinessBasics reports, as well as the Sales Journal.