This response is another confusing response.

If I do what you say to do, use Receive Payments, and then download transactions from the bank, I am asked to Confirm the deposit. If I confirm the deposit, then I have 2 deposits recorded and a screwed up balance sheet.

Seems to me that you can record this 2 ways:

1 - record through Receive Payments and then EXCLUDE the downloaded bank deposit.

2 - Match the downloaded bank deposit to the correct invoice.

Now the problem becomes, how do you attach a SINGLE payment (single check), to MULTIPLE invoices. That I haven't figured out yet.

If QB programmers see a difficult and confusing way to do something, then that's the way they are going to program the software.