A/R account

[fvicent]

How can I set differents a/r accounts by default for every customer?

[rick Prindivill]

WHY would you want to do this? You can set different Sales or Revenue accounts for each Customer. Go to Maintain Customers and Sales Default.

[Lisa_p]

How can I set differents a/r accounts by default for every customer?

You don't want to do this!!!

Use a single A/R account. You'll see separate "accounts" for each customer when your run the accounts receivable aging.

[fvicent]

Thanks for your answers. But We have some customers that when we have to make them payments (because they prepay) we need to write different names, for example, we can pay Customer1 to John, Peter, Andrew, etc. But in the payment window we cannot change the name. So we have to do it in the Write Check window writing the name directly and using the account for that customer, so we need to change the expense account every time. But it does not affect my a/r.
So we are checkin thru the account chart instead using a/r aging
Then when we receive a prepayment we have to change the account thru the journal and we could make some mistakes that's why we want to set the a/r for every customer.

Any further suggestion We'll appreciate it

[Lisa_p]

So you're incurring expenses on behalf of customer 1 with payments to John, Peter and Andrew. And customer 1 reimburses you for those expenses by way of their prepayment, is that correct?

If that's the case, John, Peter and Andrew should be vendors. set up a job for Customer 1 and include it on the expense line paid to the guys. Then invoice the customer for those expenses by clicking on Apply time/costs on the invoice window and this will track the A/R balance correctly.