I am going to try this accounting question one more time....?
I am going to try this accounting question one more time....?
We have a gift certificate program at work where we buy the certificates from a company for face value, 5, 10, etc and then we in turn sell them to the public. We make nothing off of these as we are a non profit. When we buy the g/c the money is debited from our checking account.
When we sell them, they are either paid for right then or they are invoiced to our members. We do not use Quickbooks to invoice from because it was never set up that way.It is done through a membership program. But in Quickbooks we have an account called "gift certificates on hand" that when the gift certificates are ordered I go into QB and write a check to the g/c company which credits cash and debits the on hand account. Then when the gift certificates are sold and the receipts have been posted, I make the deposit into QB's to the "g/c on hand".
Which then debits cash and credits g/c on hand. My problem is trying to get the a/r in quickbooks to match the a/r in the mem. program.
Answers:
Andy: sounds like you've got it reversed.. I assume when you say "gift certificates on hand" that it is an inventory account. When you order from th GC company you are adding to your inventory.Therefore you should be debiting cash and crediting GCOH. When you sell the GC's you should be crediting cash and debiting GCOH. That way your GC's sold plus what you have in inventory should match the total of GC's you bought. In the members accounts... they buy, you db their acct. and cr cash they pay, you db cash and cr their acct. I hope this helps you.
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