Payment Partner Balance

When registering a customer or vendor payment, the accountant usually has to leave the form to check how much the partner owes or is owed. This module adds a computed Net Balance field to the payment form, next to the partner, showing receivable minus payable. It plugs into Accounting payments and helps cashiers and accountants avoid overpaying or under-collecting. It is read only and changes no accounting data.

1. 1

   Open a payment

   Go to Accounting > Customers > Payments or Vendors > Payments and create or open a payment. Choose the partner. The balance is calculated as soon as a partner is set.

   • Payment form
   • Partner required
2. 2

   Read the Net Balance

   The Net Balance field appears next to the partner. It equals the partner receivable minus payable using the partner totals. With no partner it shows zero.

   • partner_balance_due
   • Uses partner totals
   • Zero without partner
3. 3

   Decide the amount

   Compare the balance with the payment amount before confirming. This helps to settle in full or partly with confidence. The information is shown in the payment currency.

   • Compare before confirming
   • Payment currency
4. 4

   No accounting side effects

   The field is computed and not stored, so posting a payment behaves exactly as before. Uninstalling removes only the display. No data migration is needed.

   • Computed, not stored
   • Safe to uninstall

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