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How to match a payment without adding a duplicate deposit

Clicking "match" on a bank transaction often adds a duplicate deposit for the same amount to the customer's transaction list. This creates incorrect negative balances and leaves multiple deposits hanging open, forcing users to make fixing these errors a daily activity.

Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found3 items attempted
Community agreement7 total upvotes

What people tried

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  1. 1
    Undo all of the bank matches to the invoices and then manually match the bank feed to the deposits.
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  2. 2
    Change the auto-generated deposit to the correct real world bank account and then match it.
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  3. 3
    Remove the integration entirely.
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In their words

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r/QuickBooks2 people · October 2026 – November 2026

“But under deposits there are now seven duplicate deposits that are hanging open.”source ↗

Chmaziro · r/QuickBooks · 3 upvotes

“When I go to my bank transactions, and I click match, it adds another $70 deposit under my customer transaction list. I now have a -$70.00 instead of a 0 balance.”source ↗

Baddab55 · r/QuickBooks · 2 upvotes

“I was really hoping this would no longer be a daily activity”source ↗

Chmaziro · r/QuickBooks · 1 upvotes

“When I go back to the customer transaction list, it has added a deposit for the same amount they paid.”source ↗

“How do I match the payment, and keep it from adding a deposit in their transaction list?”source ↗

Baddab55 · r/QuickBooks · 1 upvotes

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