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# Can I post a journal entry to a customer or vendor?

In Zoho Books, **Customers** and **Vendors** are managed as _Contacts_, and all transactions related to them are handled within the **Sales** and **Purchases** modules. Therefore, it’s not necessary to create manual journal entries to record transactions for customers and vendors. However, if you need to record a transaction that doesn’t fit into the standard sales or purchase categories, you can [create a manual journal entry](https://www.zoho.com/in/books/help/accountant/manual-journal.html#create).

**Note:**

*   Cash-based journals cannot be created for journal entries involving **Accounts Receivable** and **Accounts Payable**.
*   To record payments for customer receivables or vendor payables, you must use a bill or an invoice. Payments cannot be recorded against manual journal entries created for such transactions.

**Insight:** To pass a journal for overseas customers, you need to select their currency in the _Currency_ field so that the corresponding contact appears in the _Contacts_ dropdown.

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