Process payments and applications

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Processing payments and applications - overview

In general, you use the Customer ledger workspace specifically for sales made on credit.

About payment recording

In Visma Net, you can create the following types of payment documents: Payment, Prepayment, and Customer refund.

About automatic payment application

Manually applying payment documents to invoices may require a significant amount of time if your company sells a lot in a financial period.

About release of payments and prepayments

This topic contains information that applies to releasing documents of the Payment and Prepayment type.

About release of application records

In most cases, when you release applications records, the system does not generate any transactions that need to be posted to the general ledger.

Pay a specific outstanding document

You can enter a customer payment received for a specific outstanding document by using the Sales invoices (AR301000) window as a starting point.

Track customer prepayments

You can track customer prepayments in the following windows:

Apply a payment document automatically

You can initiate the process of payment auto-application by using the Apply payments automatically (AR506000) window.

Match incoming payments

After the payments are processed in the AutoPay inbox (CA50400S) window, you need to match them automatically from the Process incoming payments (AR305000) window.

Match a bank transaction or incoming payment line to different documents

In the Process bank transactions (CA306000) and Process incoming payments (AR305000) windows, you can split a bank transaction or incoming payment line in the left table into different lines to process them against corresponding, multiple documents.

Create a new payment or document

For bank transactions and incoming payments with no match, you can create a new document or payment to match manually.

Process matched incoming payments

Last modified February 19, 2026