Bank Reconciliation - Overpayments should appear in the Find & Match
Overpayments should appear in the Find & Match for Customers.
If a customer pays their correct amount owing, but an overpayment on their account hasn't been allocated against an invoice, it is impossible to reconcile.
Users have to go into Contacts, check if there is an overpayment, allocate the overpayment against an invoice then go back into the Bank Reconciliation page.
Users should be able to tick the invoices being paid and the overpayment that was used to reconcile in Find & Match.

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Yulieth Ospina commented
We are a business that frequently receives multiple payments (weekly, fortnightly, and monthly) from the same customers. A recurring issue we encounter is the manual effort required to process overpayment refunds.
Currently, if a customer makes multiple overpayments, we must first manually "Make a cash refund" in Xero before these overpayments appear when using the "Find and Match" function. This effectively creates a double-entry process for each refund, which is particularly time-consuming when dealing with several overpayments from a single customer. The need to reach out to customers to stop automatic payments further highlights the inefficiency of this workflow.
We recall a previous process where reconciling overpayments and subsequent refunds was much smoother. Our ideal solution would be:
* When a transaction is reconciled as an overpayment, it should be automatically available for matching during a refund.
* When processing a refund, we should simply be able to click "Find and Match" and easily locate the relevant overpayment(s) by searching for the customer's name, without needing to manually "Make a cash refund" beforehand.
Removing the redundant "Make a cash refund" step would significantly improve our reconciliation efficiency and reduce the administrative burden associated with frequent overpayments. We believe this enhancement would greatly benefit businesses like ours that manage a high volume of recurring customer payments. -
Cecily Gavin commented
Make it possible to apply cash refunds or multiple overpayments at once instead of having to go manually into each overpayment and process a cash refund at the bottom of the screen. Give the choice to select multiple items at a time.
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Suzette Edwards commented
Allow addition of an overpayment on a receipt. I have a customer who paid several invoices and included an amount for a future invoice. I now have to go CREATE a temporary invoice to apply the funds to. This is dumb.