2504952 - Error: Down Payments Cannot be Cleared Together with Items of Other Types

You are trying to clear the Payment, Down Payment & Invoice, and receive the error message: Down payments cannot be cleared together with items of other types.

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1. Go to the Payables work center, and choose the Suppliers view.
2. Select the Supplier Accounts subview.
3. Choose the Supplier in question, and then select View.
4. In the Trade Payables tab, show Open Items.
5. You can see the Payment, Down Payment & Invoice.
6. Select these three items, and choose Clear Manually.
7. On the New Manual Clearing screen you see the error message - Down payments cannot be cleared together with items of other types.

This is the standard system behavior.

The standard process is to first clear the Down Payment with the Invoice and then clear the remaining amount with the Invoice.

OR

While creating the Invoice, add the open Down Payment to the Invoice itself and later clear the remaining balance of the Invoice with the Payment.

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