 But I'm going to first do the old method where we have a negative receivable to compare and contrast and then we'll do the new method here. So I'm not going to make the receipt payment from it. I'm just going to record this. I'm going to say save it and close it. And then what happens on the customer center over here? Now we've got the sales order. Sales order is good to go. If I go back on over here once again, nothing happened for the sales order. Nothing happened. So nothing happened with that one. So then like before I get the before I order the inventory from my vendor, I'm like, you need to pay me, let's say $50 in order. So so I'm going to do the old method then is I'm going to go to the receive payment before we enter the invoice and without the turning on of the new the new feature of the of the of the liability account of like, unearned revenue. Now again, if you don't, if you don't have the ability to turn on the new thing, because possibly you have an older version or something like that, then this would be the method that you might use. And even if you do have the option, again, we'll compare and contrast some of the complicated or the differences between the two. It might you might still not want to turn it on because it might cause more confusion and it does add a clearing account and whatnot. So we'll talk about that. We're comparing the two. So again, I'm going to say this is number two. There's our customer name, and we don't have an invoice to tie out to down here because we haven't made an invoice yet. We're going to collect the payment first. So the payment is going to be let's say for $50. That's the down payment. Are you sure that's enough for this guy? We should. Okay, that's it'll be fine. This guy will pay us 020127. And let's say we get cash down. There's no nothing to tie it out to. So when I record this, what's it going to do? Well, the customer prepayment usually will decrease the accounts receivable, but there's nothing in accounts receivable. So it's going to make a negative accounts receivable. That's wrong. What should it do instead? It should create a positive liability. Why do we want it to create a negative receivable? Because it's easier to make a sub ledger for the negative receivable, right? That's that's the point. So it's easy. It's kind of easier from the bookkeeping side. So this is where we have something different happening here. So we have the sales received. I'm not sure if I spelled that right. What's going to happen? We're going to say we get cash. I'm going to put into cash instead of undeposited funds that might go into undeposited funds, but the other side's going to go to the accounts receivable. Like so. And then cash. Where's my decimals up here? Why does everything else have decimals but not this one? It's crazy. It's making me crazy with the inconsistency. So we have now we end up with this negative receivable. So again, that's not quite right because it should be down here as a liability account, not a negative receivable. But when I try to track the sub ledger, it's easier to track a sub ledger to one account than two accounts. That's that's the trade off that we're kind of trying to deal with here. So let's go ahead and record it. Check it out over here. So we'll save it. We'll close it. It says a credit for the overpayment will remain on the customer's account. You can click print credit memo to save the transaction and print a credit memo. Click OK to save the transaction. Click cancel. So I'm going to say OK and boom recorded. Let's see what happened then back to the report. So we're going to go to the balance sheet and we know that we put we put money into undeposited funds. I'm not going to get into making the deposit from there, but it's going into basically a cash account 010127. And so there's the $50 payment. That looks good. Okay. Closing that out. The other side is going into negative accounts receivable AR 010127. That's going to be the payment. There's the $50. It doesn't make it negative here because we had a bunch of stuff in it already. But when I look at the sub ledger by customer, it'll be negative for the sub ledger. So if I close this out reports drop down and we go into customers and receivables and we say we want the customer balance detail. Let's say you can see here now we have this AR for this customer has a negative balance. So what does it mean if there's a negative AR for that particular customer? That means that they owe us that that means that we owe them money. We owe them money. That's a liability. So it should be a liability. But look how nicely it fits into the AR sub ledger because we want it to be connected to the customer. That's basically the problem on the internal bookkeeping side. What happens if I go to the customer center over here. And I look at this my am I and I'm trying to see what what's going on with this customer. It looks it looks reasonable over here because I'm like okay what happened. Well there was an estimate and then a sales order and then a payment but that payment isn't tied out to anything right. And I can then tie it out in the future when I make the invoice and so that so it looks easy internally from an internal standpoint as well. So so from a bookkeeping standpoint this actually works fairly well for the sub ledger. The problem is from reporting standpoints when I report this for financial reporting. I have my AR is too low and my my liabilities are too low. So what we would need to do is do an adjusting entry possibly at the end of the year to properly adjust the accounts receivable and the and the liability and that system can work fairly well. And it's as long as you know what you're doing. You can you can be I think you know a lot of small companies particularly can basically to mid-sized companies can basically work around that kind of system and make the internal bookkeeping basically as easy as possible. That would be kind of the focus of that kind of system. So also just note that after we're after we've completed this whole process then then it will be correct and it's just a timing difference. So if I go into my customer balance over here that negative amount once I actually do the work and give the surfboard enter the invoice. These two things will net out and it'll be positive again and we'll be back in business also just realize that if I go to the bottom of this report. It ties out to what's on the balance sheet hopefully this time. This is at ninety two nine fifty seven ninety three balance sheet ninety two nine fifty seven ninety three. So that's I mean again that's the key we have to have the sub ledger tying in to the accounts receivable even though in this case the accounts receivable is too low by that negative amount. But if you break it out into a liability account then it becomes a little bit difficult to tie the sub ledger out. So what do you I mean what are we going to do we're going to have two sub ledger kind of accounts one that's basically what's going to happen. We're going to have two kind of reports on the sub ledger account that will tie out to a liability and to the accounts receivable. So add a little bit of complication to it. So again there's pros and cons to the methods but we will continue with this next time. And next time of course what we will do is we will complete the purchase of the inventory then we'll turn around and invoice the customer and then we'll see if we can receive the payment from the customer.