u/rubinscubin

I'm new to using QuickBooks for invoicing. As a photographer, I have always used Square. In my business, and in the industry in general, we have a set amount for the work we do, and a retainer that comes from the total price. The retainer is due with the signed contract to fully book, and the rest is due 2 days before the session (or 30 days before a wedding).

I am trying to send my first invoice to a client today through QuickBooks, and when I try to put in an amount for a deposit, it is showing as though the client has already paid that amount. I asked the AI assistant, and it is gaslighting me and telling me that it's not true and the amount it's showing to pay (the amount due after the retainer/deposit is taken off) is what is due after they pay the retainer/deposit. I sent a test invoice to my husband to see with the same info and AI is of course wrong. If I put in a deposit, it is showing it as already been paid for him as well.

I hope I'm making sense because their customer service/chat assistant is no help, and I can't get Google results that are helpful. I need to be able to send an invoice that shows the total, a retainer amount (QuickBooks words it as a deposit, which is annoying, but seems to be something I can't change), and an option to pay the retainer only with the rest at a later date. Is this possible?

UPDATE- found the host, thank you SO much, Milwaukee, I will love ypu forever!!

I am desperately looking for the owner of the Airbnb my friends and I stayed at in Milwaukee in the Bay View neighborhood for Pride last week. The listing is no longer active, so I'm not able to message the host. I was not the one who booked it, and the person who did is not someone I am able to speak with, at all.  Something happened in their home and I need information/I need to report information to the host. I have the link to the listing still, but I'm just not able to message. The Airbnb is on Woodward and was decorated in a vintage/mid-century modern style with a front porch. It is a duplex. I know the name of the host from the listing, but obviously I'm not going to doxx them here. If you think this may have been your property, or if you think you knower the host, please reach out. It is so so important. I don't know if this is allowed or how else to get in touch with this person. I am absolutely in tears and need their help. I just know that reddit is usually the answer. 

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Yesterday I posted that I was looking for friends in the polar region. That was a lie. I meant to say that I am in the polar region and I am looking for friends.

My husband and I play every day and if I'm being honest, we pretty much play all day. I started playing in 2016 and stopped in 2019, I got him into it when I started again this last November and now we're both obsessed. I'll leave both our codes. We both give gifts every day. He's somehow a higher level than me. Its slightly annoying, but I still love him very much.

Me

317581439329

Him

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Hi, all! My husband and I are really into the game and play everyday pretty much all day. We are in the polar region and looking for friends. We both exchange gifts every day. I will add our friend codes. We'd loved to make all the friends!

Me

317581439329

Him

950800506961