[{"question":{"category_id":1369271,"account_id":12867,"created_at":"2026-07-22T18:46:48.523Z","tag_names":["abr","batch fee","batch reconciliation","daily discount","discounting","fee journal entry","gross vs net","journal entries","merchant fees","monthly discount","net deposit","pending fee entry","processing fees"],"answer_sample":"Processors bill their fees in one of two ways. Most bill once a month: your daily","long_answer_sample":"Processors bill their fees in one of two ways. Most bill once a month: your daily deposits arrive gross, and a single fee withdrawal hits your bank at month end (monthly discount). Others take their fee out of every day's deposit, so what lands in the bank each day is the batch total minus that day's fee (daily discount). Before Automatic Batch Reco","language_id":1,"id":3893600,"last_published_date":"July 27th, 2026","last_published_avatar":"\u003cimg class=\"avatar circle\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"background: url(\u0026quot;/initials_avatars/TA?bg=e0633a\u0026amp;s=192\u0026amp;fg=fff\u0026quot;) 0% 0% / 96px 96px;\" src=\"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/841e7ea85ebda058cdd7ee30638e7bee.png?s=96\u0026amp;d=blank\" /\u003e","last_published_user_name":"Thomas Aronica","indexable_body":"processors bill fees one two ways. month daily deposits arrive gross, single fee withdrawal hits bank end (monthly discount). others take every day's deposit, lands day batch total minus (daily automatic reconciliation (abr), discount merchants compute book journal entry hand. abr's option, splits gross net-to-bank plus fee, books balance closes clean. choosing method abr screen, credit card module monthly / selector. choose option matches processor actually takes fee; sure, ask partner set merchant account. gross. post entry; processor's month-end ordinary expense, always have. net fee. you, batch. switching requires expense account mapping (see setting abr). selector applies only. ach check batches carry per-batch use model. confirming gateways, biller genie pulls directly ingestion. go straight pending sync filled in, manual step. lookup ever fails, simply falls back flow below. new arrives (orange pill), banner asking enter amounts grid. amount computes click confirm, posts next sync. applied, grid shows warning unconfirmed hard miss. several waiting, confirm action confirms entering once, asks confirmation closing entered confirming, move discounting amount, required entries look like discount, settled two-line debit settlement sweep (bank) three lines (gross fee) edge cases worth knowing zero collapses shape; zero-dollar line posted. refund-heavy day, can negative. line's flip, money moves sweep, still returns zero. short keep coming smaller say, probably netting deposit. fix switch discount; native solution, stops difference accumulating. related articles understanding mappings balances reading history transaction linking reconciling technology accounting software","name":"Daily Discount: Automatic Fee Journal Entries","votes":0,"is_published":true,"slug":"daily-discount-automatic-fee-journal-entries","first_category":"Automatic Batch Reconciliation","categories_display_for_views":"Automatic Batch Reconciliation","parent_categories":[1369271],"is_internal":false,"is_private":false,"extra_categories":[],"url":"/automatic-batch-reconciliation/daily-discount-automatic-fee-journal-entries?from_search=242850288","host":"https://helpcenter.billergenie.com","body_txt":"processors bill fees one two ways. month daily deposits arrive gross, single fee withdrawal hits bank end (monthly discount). others take every day's deposit, lands day batch total minus (daily automatic reconciliation (abr), discount merchants compute book journal entry hand. abr's option, splits gross net-to-bank plus fee, books balance closes clean. choosing method abr screen, credit card module monthly / selector. choose option matches processor actually takes fee; sure, ask partner set merchant account. gross. post entry; processor's month-end ordinary expense, always have. net fee. you, batch. switching requires expense account mapping (see setting abr). selector applies only. ach check batches carry per-batch use model. confirming gateways, biller genie pulls directly ingestion. go straight pending sync filled in, manual step. lookup ever fails, simply falls back flow below. new arrives (orange pill), banner asking enter amounts grid. amount computes click confirm, posts next sync. applied, grid shows warning unconfirmed hard miss. several waiting, confirm action confirms entering once, asks confirmation closing entered confirming, move discounting amount, required entries look like discount, settled two-line debit settlement sweep (bank) three lines (gross fee) edge cases worth knowing zero collapses shape; zero-dollar line posted. refund-heavy day, can negative. line's flip, money moves sweep, still returns zero. short keep coming smaller say, probably netting deposit. fix switch discount; native solution, stops difference accumulating. related articles understanding mappings balances reading history transaction linking reconciling technology accounting software","categories":{"current":{"id":1369271,"name":"Automatic Batch Reconciliation","url":"/automatic-batch-reconciliation"}},"category_param":"automatic-batch-reconciliation"}},{"question":{"category_id":1368778,"account_id":12867,"created_at":"2026-09-23T07:53:31.972Z","tag_names":["tip sales receipt","gratuity sales receipt","bg tip income","bg tips payable","tip refund","refund tip","void tip","partial refund tip","tip chargeback","tip accounting","gratuity item quickbooks","gratuity taxable","tip tax","tips quickbooks desktop","tips quickbooks online","tip receipt number","tips 1099-k","tips xero"],"answer_sample":"Tips collected through the Tips add-on are booked separately from your invoice re","long_answer_sample":"Tips collected through the Tips add-on are booked separately from your invoice revenue and reversed with the payment when you refund or void, unless you choose to refund only the invoice or only the tip. This article explains where the money lands in QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop or a Biller Genie only account, how to keep the tax treatment ","language_id":1,"id":3952608,"last_published_date":"October 14th, 2026","last_published_avatar":"\u003cimg class=\"avatar circle\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"background: url(\u0026quot;/initials_avatars/TA?bg=e0633a\u0026amp;s=192\u0026amp;fg=fff\u0026quot;) 0% 0% / 96px 96px;\" src=\"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/841e7ea85ebda058cdd7ee30638e7bee.png?s=96\u0026amp;d=blank\" /\u003e","last_published_user_name":"Thomas Aronica","indexable_body":"tips collected add-on booked separately invoice revenue reversed payment refund void, unless choose tip. article explains money lands quickbooks online, desktop biller genie account, keep tax treatment clean, happens refunds, voids, chargebacks returned bank payments. gratuity item tip account turn enable tipping connected, creates records exist record online accounting software receipt gratuity, service item, non-taxable charge code non items page, created first tipped bg income (income) applicable owed staff payable (other current liability) can use yes. pick existing reaches quickbooks, remap row mapping tab. map change liability later repoints without rewriting past transactions. no. choice locks created. (recommended) revenue. books clear day collected. (liability) pass staff. every raises balance, balance falls pay payroll outside genie. clearing job. never distributes tips. invoices synced syncs usual. one-line sales posted account. added line invoice. see creating receipts work assigns number. sync completes, shows italic placeholder; afterwards # number transaction, transaction details. details show \"this associated receipt(s)\" link receipt. several paid together, one carries whole linked payment. deactivate reactivates next booking. create directly genie, behind them, get tip, covers it, still closes zero. payments charged settles, usually days later. \"a $x.xx will settles.\" settles adds leave rate page 0. make taxable splits totals customer $10.00 8% $9.26 plus $0.74 tax. cents. avoids both. refunds voids default follows path technology fee returns share left, fee, open transactions invoice, click refund. enter custom amount. elements refund, tick want total + (just fee) amount fee. (or label) box left. confirm boxes ticked (the default) works split across proportion. part stays paid. always ticked. fully refunded, window opens alone. full screen choice. everything card payments, time bulk. bulk applies gateway allows partial refunds; otherwise reads ach supports refunds.\" paypal void tip-only subtotal $0.00, total. reversed. deletes it. remaining comes back. (online) credit memo check (desktop) covering gratuity. stays. amount, refunded proportion add lines lines, lines. you. come only. back, share; sits above, per portion entered. checkbox \"treat entered net amount\" top typed changes read, parts lists row. start page. chargeback reverses included, journal entry. figure. lose rebill, new original only, settlement treated way reopened asks owed, books. reports exports export includes columns. on-screen grid / column separate column. link. payment, count processed volume gross 1099-k processor issues, whichever post to. xero offered merchants. installed connecting xero, collecting tips; recorded yourself. using related articles glance setting sees adding checkout reconciling fees vs (full partial) recording handling rejects funding, statements,","name":"How Tips Sync to QuickBooks and How Refunds Work","votes":0,"is_published":true,"slug":"how-tips-sync-to-quickbooks-and-how-refunds-work","first_category":"Accounting Software","categories_display_for_views":"Accounting Software","parent_categories":[1368778],"is_internal":false,"is_private":false,"extra_categories":[],"url":"/accounting-software/how-tips-sync-to-quickbooks-and-how-refunds-work?from_search=242850288","host":"https://helpcenter.billergenie.com","body_txt":"tips collected add-on booked separately invoice revenue reversed payment refund void, unless choose tip. article explains money lands quickbooks online, desktop biller genie account, keep tax treatment clean, happens refunds, voids, chargebacks returned bank payments. gratuity item tip account turn enable tipping connected, creates records exist record online accounting software receipt gratuity, service item, non-taxable charge code non items page, created first tipped bg income (income) applicable owed staff payable (other current liability) can use yes. pick existing reaches quickbooks, remap row mapping tab. map change liability later repoints without rewriting past transactions. no. choice locks created. (recommended) revenue. books clear day collected. (liability) pass staff. every raises balance, balance falls pay payroll outside genie. clearing job. never distributes tips. invoices synced syncs usual. one-line sales posted account. added line invoice. see creating receipts work assigns number. sync completes, shows italic placeholder; afterwards # number transaction, transaction details. details show \"this associated receipt(s)\" link receipt. several paid together, one carries whole linked payment. deactivate reactivates next booking. create directly genie, behind them, get tip, covers it, still closes zero. payments charged settles, usually days later. \"a $x.xx will settles.\" settles adds leave rate page 0. make taxable splits totals customer $10.00 8% $9.26 plus $0.74 tax. cents. avoids both. refunds voids default follows path technology fee returns share left, fee, open transactions invoice, click refund. enter custom amount. elements refund, tick want total + (just fee) amount fee. (or label) box left. confirm boxes ticked (the default) works split across proportion. part stays paid. always ticked. fully refunded, window opens alone. full screen choice. everything card payments, time bulk. bulk applies gateway allows partial refunds; otherwise reads ach supports refunds.\" paypal void tip-only subtotal $0.00, total. reversed. deletes it. remaining comes back. (online) credit memo check (desktop) covering gratuity. stays. amount, refunded proportion add lines lines, lines. you. come only. back, share; sits above, per portion entered. checkbox \"treat entered net amount\" top typed changes read, parts lists row. start page. chargeback reverses included, journal entry. figure. lose rebill, new original only, settlement treated way reopened asks owed, books. reports exports export includes columns. on-screen grid / column separate column. link. payment, count processed volume gross 1099-k processor issues, whichever post to. xero offered merchants. installed connecting xero, collecting tips; recorded yourself. using related articles glance setting sees adding checkout reconciling fees vs (full partial) recording handling rejects funding, statements,","categories":{"current":{"id":1368778,"name":"Accounting Software","url":"/accounting-software"}},"category_param":"accounting-software"}}]