Can a guest do credit and pay later?

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Set up credit accounts for guests

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In restaurants, walk-in guests are not given credit, and when a guest is about to leave after eating, they have to clear 100% of their payment. But sometimes it happens that a guest has a reference, is an acquaintance of the owner, or has some other reference, so the guest says that they will make the payment after a few days.
In that case, what you do is you open a payment account called 'Receivable from Guest', just like you have payment accounts for cash and bank, you similarly open 'Receivable from Guest'. This is also under Assets. And you settle the guest's amount into this account. If you need to give a discount, you give the discount and also settle it in this account.
Then, in the receipt report, you can select this 'Receivable from Guest' to get all such transactions where the guest did not pay at that time and has promised to pay after a few days. Then your accounts department follows up with them, takes the payment from them, and posts its adjustment.

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