After accepting and posting a payment from a patron, the payment must be applied to the patron's outstanding charges. Both the payment and the charge must be posted before applying the payment to the charge.
Payments can either be automatically applied or manually applied. Refer to the Automatically Apply a Payment or Manually Apply a Payment sections for more information.
To use funds in a deposit account as payment for a charge, first transfer the deposit to the Payment account.
The procedures in the Automatically Apply a Payment section describe how to apply a payment to a charge after the payment has been received and posted.
Note: If using the Automatic Apply function to apply payments, there must be defined default Transfer In and Transfer Out transaction codes for the Payment type account and for the accounts that contain charges to which payments are being applied. Without default Transfer In and Transfer Out transaction codes, it is not possible to automatically apply payments to charges.