Most cheque software supports a bounce. The case that matters here is the one where the bank pays some of it.

The practice this answers. In the UAE, a bank may honour part of a cheque's value and return the remainder. You receive part of your money and a returned instrument for the rest, which is neither a clean payment nor a clean bounce. Any system that can only model paid or unpaid will force you into manual corrections, and manual corrections are where reconciliations go to die.

The mental model. Read a partial honour as three simultaneous truths. Part of the value became real money in your bank. The rest did not, so the customer still owes it. And the cheque itself is now an instrument for the remaining balance only — that is what gets re-presented, not the original figure.

What moves when you record it. Three things change together, and it is worth naming each one.

• The bank receives the honoured part. That portion leaves Cheques Under Collection and becomes a real bank movement.
• The settled invoice re-opens. The unpaid remainder is a receivable again, on the original document, not on a new one.
• The Invoices smart button count drops. The cheque no longer settles the invoice it settled a minute ago, and the count is a live statement of what it settles now.

The click path. From the cheque, use the Bounce action and pick the reason. Record the partial honour here, at the moment you learn about it, rather than patching it later with a journal entry — the module handles the split, and a hand-written correction will not update the states, the smart button or the badge.

The worked example. On 19 October 2026 the bank honours AED 75,000.00 of cheque 004512 and returns AED 45,000.00. Cheques Under Collection empties, the bank shows AED 75,000.00 received, and invoice INV/2026/0417 re-opens for AED 45,000.00 with Al Reem Interiors LLC owing that amount again. The cheque is now a bounced instrument for AED 45,000.00, and that is the figure it will carry when you present it again.

The badge that updates itself. The partner's bounce-risk badge on the customer form updates automatically from this event. Nobody has to remember to flag the account, which matters because the person who learns about a bounce is rarely the person deciding the next credit limit. Lesson 10 returns to what to do with that signal.

The failure mode. The expensive mistake is re-presenting the original AED 120,000.00 after a partial honour, which asks the bank for money you have already been paid and asks the customer for money they no longer owe. Let the module carry the remaining balance forward: it re-presents the cheque for the remainder, and the figure on the redeposit will be AED 45,000.00 without anyone retyping it.