Section 8 accounting question with Quickbooks

[Steve Saltman]

Tenant pays, say $300. Housing authority pays, say, $700.

When recording the $700 payment, do you create a new customer for that tenant/HA combo or just have all HA payments from a single "Housing Authority" customer? Or just ignore the source and say that the payment came from the tenant and put a note "from housing authority".

There's an extra step applying a separate customer payment against a rental invoice created for the tenant.

Any thoughts?