Pepayment Handling question

Hi community,

When a prepayment is being handled it has to be taken off hold to facilitate the handling process. If the prepayment is only to be partially handled e.g  a

-7000. prepayment is being handled for 4000.  when the 4000. is applied to the  prepayment amount the remaining -3000 will remain at an approved status

until manually put on hold. Is there a way to prevent this amount being caught up in an automatic payment group ;apart from excluding the vendor using

data selection, and setting the due date to a date far into the future. Has anyone ever done this before