I agree, this is absolutely unacceptable for an accounting program. Why aren't Paid Receipts in the Self employed version, as someone wrote above?

What I have done, for years, is do the steps to 'send an invoice' again but change the subject to say Paid Receipt. It shows the 0 balance. Then I have a message I cut and paste for each Paid receipt ( saying thanks for payment and asking for a review if customer was happy etc. ) This should be automatic once I apply payment to an invoice. Basic business practise but not easy with this program. 

This step takes so much of my time....and is extremely frustrating.