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Tacoma12
October 29, 2019

Using CC points.

  • October 29, 2019
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I am purchasing flights and lodging with my credit card points.  

How do I enter this transaction to show the expense to the jobs?  I do not want to leave these out on my job costing and for billing purposes! 

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    Anonymous
    October 29, 2019

    Card points are usually not recorded as an asset or receivable - but the items you receive from the points can be. It would be a 2 step process:

    1 - create a 'normal' CC purchase transaction for the item your getting. You should apply a cash price if there was a cash purchase option, otherwise just estimate the equivalent cash price based on the number of points your using. Use the JOB name on the purchase.

    2 - Create an equal value Deposit to the CC account.  This money comes from the CC company - use a gl  account (category) from the 'other income' type - you may have to create one. Alternately you can use a "CC interest & fees" account as the deposit source

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      A PUNK
      February 5, 2020

      The answer is very correct but I believe nomenclature has changed since this was answered so I wanted to make it easier for a newbie like me. 

       

      1- Create an expense for the purchase with an actual cash value. This can be an estimate but be as close as you can if the actual value is not available. 

       

      2- Create a CC credit from the vendor (the CC Company) for the amount charged.

       

      I also was able to do something related to this by accident. I purchased 3 items for $300. I paid for $60 of this with the dividend (or points or w/e you have), and $240 of this expense with the CC. We know that if we add the expense at $300 (which would have to be manually added because that amount will not show up n the bank statement) we would not be able to match the transaction from the bank statement because the expense is more than the amount spent on the statement. BUT what I found was that if we add the expense in the statement (in this case is $240) then we can go to the expense in the vendor table and change the amount to the actual expense without the match disappearing. There will be a warning message and you will need to add the CC credit to make the reports correct. I thought this was pretty cool and actually pretty simple so it's worth sharing.

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