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# Record a cash receipt

> Record money received in Accounting, distinguish it from customer invoice settlement, and understand how cleared customer payments reach cash reporting.

Use **Cash Receipts** for money received that needs an Accounting cash entry and is not better handled by a more specific source workflow.

Customer invoice payments are usually recorded through Agreements so Lynka can reduce the invoice balance and connect the settlement to Accounts Receivable. A generic cash receipt should not be used to bypass that relationship.

## Open the cash receipt flow

Go to **Accounting**, then **Cash Receipts**. Creating a cash entry uses the journal-entry creation permission in the current Accounting shell.

On desktop, the create-cash action opens the cash entry editor in the Accounting side panel. Mobile uses the dedicated Accounting flow.

## What a cash receipt should explain

A useful cash entry answers:

* how much money was received
* when it was received
* what account or business event it relates to
* which currency applies
* what reference lets someone trace the source later

## Customer invoice payments

When cash belongs to an invoice, use the invoice payment flow. Lynka's settlement logic counts cleared payment activity for invoice settlement and Accounting cash reporting.

A pending or uncleared payment should not reduce Accounts Receivable as if the money were already available.

## Cleared cash

The accounting model intentionally distinguishes payment creation from cleared cash. Reports should use cleared payment activity where the metric claims to represent cash that actually settled.

This is why the cash total can differ from a list of every payment attempt or pending payment record.

## Avoid double counting

Do not record a customer invoice payment through Agreements and then create a second generic cash receipt for the same money. That can duplicate cash unless the accounting workflow explicitly expects both records as linked sides of the same transaction.

## Related articles

* [Record an invoice payment](/product/agreements/invoices/record-payment)
* [Bank reconciliation](/product/accounting/bank/reconcile-bank)
* [Cash Flow Statement](/product/accounting/financial-reports)