Use of Add in Sequence in payments

Question

Can someone please clarify the difference between "Add" and "Add in Sequence" for incoming/outgoing payments? Thank you.

Answer 1

Allen,
Add and Add in Sequence are completely 2 different things.
Add is to Add the Incoming Payment.
Add in Sequence is an automatic way to apply payment to the Invoices in the Sequence of their display order.
Example
Invoice No...........Balance Due.....................Total Payment
100......................300.00.................................300.00
101......................200.00.................................200.00
102......................150.00.................................150.00
103......................250.00.................................250.00
In the above case if the Customer Pays 550.00 and the normal process would be to enter 300.00 on the first, 200.00 on the second and 50.00 on the third invoice manually.  (presuming you want to apply the payments to the first 3 invoices).  To User Add in Sequence instead of manually entering the amounts to each invoice, you will simply go to Payment means and enter the total amount and on the main screen Click Add in Sequence and it would automatically allocate the amounts in the order of the Invoices (Top to Bottom) and your screen would look as below and the first 3 rows would be highlighted. 
Invoice No...........Balance Due.....................Total Payment
100......................300.00.................................300.00
101......................200.00.................................200.00
102......................150.00................................. 50.00
103......................250.00.................................250.00