How to account for an invoice in Euro and payment in US Dollars?
Hi. I am a US-based voice actor. Until now, all my clients have been in the USA, and I have been able to send invoices in US Dollars and receive payments in the same currency. But I recently did a recording for a museum in France. I was bidding the job along with people from all over the world, and it was understood that I would send an invoice specifying Euro as the currency. I did so, and the museum paid me through PayPal. The museum sent Euros to PayPal; and PayPal did the currency exchange and sent me US Dollars. I am sure PayPal took both a transaction fee and a currency-exchange fee, although that is not detailed for me when I look at the transaction on PayPal.com
What is the best way to enter this into QuickBooks (Desktop)? I suppose I could retroactively alter the invoice to look like the transaction was in US Dollars from start to finish. But that doesn't seem right. Should I receive the payment into an "Undeposited Funds - Euro" account and then create a transaction to convert X Euro into $Y in "Undeposited Funds" ($) -- and then make the bank deposit from Undeposited Funds? I don't really know how to pull that off.
And is there any need to document the fees that PayPal took?
Thanks for your help with this!
