How does Meses treat other income and credit balances?
Not everything that lands in the account is a dues payment. Meses (meses.ai) separates income that is not dues, such as interest or refunds, from resident payments, and records apart whatever a resident pays above their fee. That way your collection totals do not mix different things.
1. Other income
- These are deposits that are not dues: refunds, advertising, transfers between your own accounts or interest.
- They are not assigned to any resident or to a dues allocation.
- If your sheet already records them, Meses shows that as evidence; if the information conflicts, the deposit stays unresolved for you to decide.
- You can also classify a deposit as other income from its details.
2. Credit balance
- A payment above the fee is identified as a credit balance, separate from the fee amount.
- When you apply the changes, Meses records it in your sheet following the format you already use.
- If it cannot find a clear place to record it, it leaves it out of the plan so you can record it yourself.
3. What reaches your sheet
- Verified other income is recorded in your sheet with its date, amount and bank reference, in the space your template already sets aside for it.
- Meses never writes over resident rows or totals.
- Anything without a clear place appears under “Not included — needs review first”, with the resident’s name where one is assigned.
4. An illustrative example
A fee is 1,500 and the resident deposits 1,550. Meses proposes 1,500 for the month's fee and 50 as a credit balance. The same month, a 320 interest deposit comes in: it becomes other income, with no resident. When you review the plan, you see both entries before anything is written.
5. How to close out excluded deposits
Review the excluded deposits in the reconciliation and resolve them, then apply the plan as described in applying and undoing changes. If a credit balance is left out, record it by hand so the resident sees it the following month.