PayPal as credit card - reverse payment on credit card

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I set up PayPal as a credit card in Sage 50.

I made a purchase using PayPal.

Having made the purchase via PayPal, I followed up with making a payment to the credit card, i.e. PayPal, for the amount of the purchase.

This is what I've always done without issue, but this morning I was interrupted and thus made an error... I don't seem to be able to reverse the credit card payment, that is, from bank to PayPal - which according to Sage50 is not what I've done -- it's what I thought I did, but that's when I got interrupted.

It seems I ended up crediting the PayPal liability account a second time, when in fact the second entry should have credited the chequing account instead, to show payment to the credit card.

And of course, I have ALWAYS taken screen captures of this, but of course when I get interrupted and make a mistake, I don't have the screen captures Disappointed Angry

How do I fix this? What general journal entry do I make to correct:

I think this is what in effect happened:

Line 1  Jul. 07, 2017   Dr. 5737 Meals & Entertainment                 9.44
Line 2  Jul. 07, 2017   Cr.      2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44

Line 3  Jul. 10, 2017   Dr. 5770 PayPal Expense                       9.44
Line 4  Jul. 10, 2017   Cr.      2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44

When in fact I think this is what should have happened:

Line 5  Jul. 07, 2017     Dr. 5737 Meals & Entertainment                 9.44
Line 6  Jul. 07, 2017     Cr.      2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44

Line 7  Jul. 10, 2017     Dr. 2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44
Line 8  Jul. 10, 2017     Cr.      1060 Bank-chequing account                 9.44

Would this work for a correction:

Line 4  Jul. 07, 2017     Dr. 2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44
Line 3  Jul. 07, 2017     Cr.     5770 PayPal Expense                         9.44
   to reverse lines 3 and 4

Line 9  Jul. 10, 2017     Dr. 2130 PayPal Payable                        9.44
Line 10 Jul. 10, 2017     Cr.      1060 Bank-chequing account                 9.44

I'm sure the general journal entry is right in front of my nose, I'm just too upset to see that clearly at the moment.

Thanks,

Kristine

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  • 0 in reply to Alwyn

    FYI - just letting you know that I did the general journal entries I have above, and it all worked out perfectly!! I was able to proceed with my account rec, etc. Only problem is, is that I got the usual error message upon hitting the "Post" button on the account rec

    I've already got a post on that issue LOL

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