First, a customer would not have sent you an invoice. Do you mean you have an invoice from a supplier? You would enter that as a purchase invoice. Or do you mean you have issued an invoice to a customer? That would be a sales invoice.
Second, neither a purchase invoice nor a sales invoice can be posted to different receivable or payable accounts. Both customers and suppliers are subsidiary ledgers under either Accounts receivable or Accounts payable. Either can be assigned to a different custom control account, but all invoices for that customer or supplier will post to the control account to which that customer or supplier is assigned.
Third, it sounds like what you are possibly trying to do is post income to different accounts. But you need to explain further.
First of all, if I sell a service, it means that it is a sales invoice. The client Corp S.A buys 3 services in the same invoice:
EmpreGo Service -------------------------> $ 25
DomiPre Service --------------------------> $ 40
Hydra Service --------------------------------> $ 10
The idea is to associate each line of income with an account receivable different. I still do not understand why you ask the type of invoice. It is logical that an account receivable obeys a sales invoice.
You did not say you had sold a service. You said you “I have an invoice from a customer [emphasis added]….” So your post was confusing. saying you had an invoice from a customer implied you received the invoice. And if you received an invoice, it would have been from a supplier. Yet you also mentioned receivables, which would apply to a customer.
I already told you that is not possible. The receivable is associated with the customer, not the type of income. The receivable represents the debit side of the sales invoice transaction. The credit side (the line items) can be posted to different income accounts.
If you want to divide your receivables for a single customer into different categories, you will need to create multiple versions of the customer, assigning each one to a different control account. I already explained that, too.
I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say that this request is not just reasonable practical from an accounting perspective, but also, in our case, our tax agency has different item codes for reporting different types of account receivables - e.g. “Trade”, “Holdbacks”, “Interest”, to name a few). Thus this is key missing functionality.
Tut’s suggestion to create 3 separate clients is not practical not only because it distributes the balance across these 3 different accounts, but because you’d need to create 3 separate invoices (since only one customer can be selected per invoice).