We have customers provide large deposits to either guarantee inventory or a as a pool of money to fund purchases from their partners/suppliers.  We record these as customer deposits and when a sales order is placed at a later time, we pay the invoice from these deposits.   These tend to be in the hundreds of thousands, so customers wont just drop off the cash on our doorstep, they tend to want to be "invoiced" for the money so they have a record.  The problem is, my accounting team has been sending them invoices (tied to a liability account) but the