[18.0] Issue with Payments and Internal Transfers

[pnajman-modoolar]

Hi guys,

I hope you can help me with this...

I've found an issue with payment internal transfers the other day.
Documentation on payment internal transfers for version 18.0 is not in line with the 18.0 code base.
Checkbox mentioned in the documentation is removed from 18.0 code base as well as the whole feature.
Now, maybe there is another way to do this in 18.0, but it's not documented, so I was hoping that you could help me out with this and point me in the right direction.

Here is the link to the 18.0 documentation on payments internal transfers:
https://github.com/odoo/documentation/blob/18.0/content/applications/finance/accounting/payments/internal_transfers.rst

Support Ticket: #4453401

Kind Regards,
Petar

[xpl-odoo]

Hello @pnajman-modoolar, thanks for the feedback!

@odoo/accounting-doc-review could you have a look? :)

[dade-odoo]

Hi @pnajman-modoolar , thanks for reaching out.

You're right, internal transfers payments have changed in 18, and an update to the documentation to reflect that change is in the pipe. In the meantime, I can tell you that the simplest way to handle internal transfers is to just use the Internal Transfer button when reconciling. This reconciliation model button will write the transaction off to the bank's Liquidity account. Note that this will need to be done when reconciling both the outgoing transaction and incoming transaction on the other journal. This is the easiest solution in 99% of cases.

For the few users who may want to record a transaction despite not reconciling as part of their workflow, it is possible to create new incoming and outgoing payment methods for the bank journals being used that are of type "Manual Payment" and could have a separate name to identify them (ie "Internal Transfer") and set the Liquidity account as the outstanding receipt/payment account. Then you could manually create a payment through the Customers > Payments or Vendors > Payments menus and set the newly created payment method. This would also need to be done for both the incoming and the outgoing payments.

[pnajman-modoolar]

Hi @dade-odoo,

Thank you so much for explaining in detail.

Kind Regards,
Petar