How to post and unpost a Deferred Revenue transaction
With just a few clicks, you can post or unpost a deferred revenue transaction on our platform.
Post a deferred revenue transaction
Steps:
- Navigate to ACCOUNTING > Revenue Tools > Deferred Revenue.
- The Search Deferred Revenues page will be displayed.
- Use the Filters to narrow down your search, or scroll through the list of DEFERRED REVENUE NO.
- Select the unposted Deferred Revenue No. that needs to be posted.
- Click POST.
- You can also click the box to the left of the accrued revenue number to POST the payment.
- A notification will appear on the bottom of the page confirming the action.
Until a Deferred Revenue Transaction has been posted, it has no accounting impact and is not included in system reports. Once a Deferred Revenue Transaction has been completed and checked, it should be marked as approved, which invokes the following actions:
- The Deferred Revenue Transaction is ‘posted’ to the general ledger (a journal entry is created in the general ledger)
- The Deferred Revenue sub-ledger is updated to include the details of the Deferred Revenue Transaction.
- The Deferred Revenue Transaction is locked so that it can’t be deleted
Unpost a deferred revenue transaction
Steps:
- Navigate to ACCOUNTING > Revenue Tools > Deferred Revenue.
- Use the Filters to narrow down your search, or scroll through the list of DEFERRED REVENUE NO.
- By default, the system will show unposted transactions only. Change the SHOW POSTED? filter to Posted Only.
- Select the DEFFERED REVENUE NO. that you wish to unpost.
- Click UNPOST.
- You can also click the box to the left of the DEFERRED REVENUE NO. to UNPOST the payment.
- A notification will appear at the bottom of the page confirming that the transaction has been unposted.