# Apply a payment from Receivables

Chapter: Finishing and getting paid
Who this is for: Counter, shop owner.
Trigger: End-of-day payment posting, or a customer calling in to pay a balance.

## What the clip says

Sign in and open Receivables. Every shop-wide unpaid Charge invoice lands here, oldest first. Pick a row, then click Apply payment. Cash is picked, and the balance owed is already filled in. Save records the payment against that invoice. A paid invoice drops off this list.

Receivables lists every shop-wide unpaid invoice for Charge customers, with an aging strip once there is at least
one. The same aging and apply pattern repeats on a single person's Balance tab.

## Steps

- Click a row to select it, or press Enter or double-click to open it. 

- Click **Apply payment**, defaulting to the selected row or the oldest unpaid. The dialog opens defaulted to **Check**.

## What happens to money and stock

Applying a payment posts a Payment against the invoice; a card tender can hand off to Stripe Connect if it's ready.

## Watch out for

- Counter Sale never appears here. It's Charge customers only.
- This is a flat unpaid-invoices list with aging buckets, not a full ledger.

## Not yet

There is no way to export receivables to accounting software.

Updated 2026-09-16.
Also available as HTML at https://reedport.com/guide/finishing-and-getting-paid/what-a-customer-owes