Let's answer this: "Then how do you record a TRADE?"

Barter or Trade simply means "not through Banking or with Funds."

You still need to use a Bank Type of account to hold the transactions. Name it Barter or Clearing.

You still enter the details for what you Owe that provider of goods or service. That is Paperless Check from Barter Bank; or using Pay Bills and pay "from" Barter Bank.

Now the Barter Bank has an amount it is running negative.

Now you need to process that this person also exists as a Customer Name to you, so enter the Sales detail. That can be a Sales Receipt or a Receive Payment against an invoice for the portion being traded against what you sold or charged to them, that they owe you for but are not sending you actual funds. This is for only the amount being Bartered. "Deposit" this to the Barter Bank.

All of this should be dated for that Same Date. Now the Barter Bank ends at 0, if you did it right. That is Barter, or Trade.