 just remember the process if I hit the drop down up top when we're receiving or when we have the revenue cycle on the customer cycle a couple different ways that might happen the simplest way would be if you just got paid by like a youtube or a platform you wait till it clears the bank and use a deposit form possibly here possibly with a register possibly with bank feeds that would be the easiest thing to do in that type of industry if you're in an industry however when you have a cash register you're typically going to want to use the sales receipt form when you make the payment or receive the payments and make the sale and then record the deposit of the sales that you have made and then if you're in an accrual system which often would happen in a situation like you're an accounting firm or you are a a lawyer or a some a landscaper then you have to do the work first and invoice if you invoice you have the added difficulty of course of tracking the payments to make sure that you can collect on them that's what we're doing now last time we entered the payment now we're going to collect on it so that means that from a financial standpoint if i go into the accounts receivable it's in accounts receivable so there these amounts are in accounts receivable now we're trying to collect on them how do we do that we could run other reports showing the accounts receivable broken out by customer and then in practice we'll typically go to the tab to the left and go into the sales area and this would be our customer center you can call it and we could go into the customers and close up the hamburger if you're in the business view by the way that would be in the skit paid and paid area and then in the customers so that's where we are at in the business view and then we can search for those customers with our line items up top possibly those that have open invoices that we need to be collecting on so there we have our list of items there i can hit the drop down here i can send a reminder if i so choose we can create statements because you'll note that now these and these people have multiple uh multiple items that are open open so if we're collecting the receivables we might try to set up a system where we create statements every once in a while every month or something like that we might try to automate the statements which will not only send just the invoice but send kind of a recap of the outstanding invoices that are due at any given point in time so we can send them a reminder we can send statements out for our for our customers to remind them to pay us and then at some point we of course would hope that we're going to receive the payment which is what we're going to imagine happens at that this time we could go from right here to the receive payment button which if i was to do that if i open that up it's going to go to our receive payment form already selecting the customer and the two invoices are down below that are related to this customer i'm going to close that out without recording it we'll go into it again shortly i'm going to hit the uh hamburger over here we can also go into the sales tab and look at the the all sales transactions this is another way that you might track your receivables and then we're going to look for the open invoices this way this way we're looking at all the open invoices not just the ones you know by customer if you're in the business view by the way it's a little bit different location it's in the bookkeeping and then within the bookkeeping you got the transactions up top and then you've got your sales transactions there's where it's located in the business view so that's those are the ways that you can get in there then we can we can sort all these items we could sort the transactions this way we can go to invoices which is quite common and then open invoices what is what we're often sorting for when we receive a payment then we can apply it out to the invoice so we could do we could do it this way with the receive payment but let's do it this way let's imagine we received a payment i'm going to hit the plus button and then i'm we we had an invoice now we're going to go to the receive payment now just as a side note you might think hey how does the bank feed fit into this situation if you have the bank feeds on if you have the bank feeds and you have to invoice somebody there's no cash related to the invoice you've got to track the accounts receivable which means even if using bank feeds you gotta you've got to see where the bank feeds are going to fit in the system now you might say well you could kind of match the bank feed deposit that's going to happen to the invoice and we'll talk more about that in another course or section with the bank feeds or you could receive the payment and then try to attach it to the receive payment or most likely if you're invoicing you're going to invoice you're going to receive the payment and then we'll put it into undeposited funds we'll talk about shortly and then we'll make the deposit and then you're going to use the bank feed to check double check on the deposit which is basically means you're just going to use it as part of your bank reconciliation process okay so let's go into the receive payment