Partial Payment

1) Invoice

2) Payment
How it appears in the customer account

The invoice is not cleared but the payment posted with reference to the invoice

And when posting the remaining amount, we can then clear it manually
Also we can get the invoice that we payed partially form the payment document as below

Then double click on the vendor line

Residual Payment
1) Invoice

2) Payment
And how it appears in the customer account

The original document that has an amount of 10.000 was cleared and the system opened a

New document with the remaining amount that equals 3000 (10.000 – 7000)