One row cannot hold a season
Ten events on one customer means the deposit, the bills, and the fee have a single place to land. The customer balance then means nothing about any one wedding. A couple who asks what they have paid is answered with a number that includes strangers.
Make the customer the date. Use the couple's name and the day so a search finds it. Enter the bills for that day on that customer. When you earn the fee, use an income item on that same customer. After that, a customer report is the event report. You should not need a workbook to rebuild what the file already knew.
If you like jobs, the job still has to be the date. A job named after the season puts you back in the same shared row, only one level down. Sub customers work when each one is a date and the parent is the planner's own trade, not a fictional couple called all weddings.
Split the goods from the coordination
Flowers, rentals, and paper goods are different from the work of running the day. When they share an item, two reports go soft. The shop's own state may tax the goods and not the coordination, and a blended item hides the taxable piece. The vendor total for the form also gets harder, because a design fee and a wholesale stem order are not the same payee story.
Use two items. Put the goods on the goods item and the coordination on its own. Map each bill to the vendor who actually sent it. Leave the couple's hold off both. The hold is their money until the contract says otherwise, and it is not a cost of the event just because it arrived first.
None of this requires reopening a filed year. Build the customers and the items in the open year. Let new events use them from the next close forward. Comparative columns can still show last year as it was filed.
What the first month looks like
We reconcile the bank as usual. The new step is a customer list that matches the calendar, and a spot check that three open events each have their own name. Bills entered that month use those names. The fee is posted only where the contract says it is earned. A hold that can still go back stays a hold.
Statements after that month can be handed to the planner without a spoken footnote about which weddings are inside which number. The customer exists so that footnote is unnecessary. The tax return later reads the same ledger, instead of a second set of books kept in a sheet.
The hold itself is walked on the deposit page. The person who does the read is on who we are.
How many events share a row
A number is enough. A pasted list is welcome too.
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