Generating Customer Bills

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Herbert W. Eber" <herb.eber at psychologicalresources.com> writes:

> Another branch:
> Suppose my books now manage AR-members, consisting of reconstructed entries
> and it all works - EXCEPT that some entries are wrong.  Good old Joe paid
> his dues when the treasurer was mentally elsewhwere and so I need to correct
> his AR.  Bus->Cus->P credits cash and thus is wrong; an attempt to post a
> negative amount (accounting-ly logically correct) is rejected. Again, I am
> sure that this is not a previously unfaced problem. Can you (again) point me
> in the right direction?

Delete the incorrect transaction and Process Payment correctly.

> Thanks - Herb

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user-bounces+herb.eber=psychologicalresources.com at gnucash.org
> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+herb.eber=psychologicalresources.com at gnucash.or
> g] On Behalf Of Herbert W. Eber
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:56 PM
> To: 'Derek Atkins'
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: RE: Generating Customer Bills
>
> Derek,
> Thanks for such rapid replies.  I meanwhile have started printing the
> manual, discovering that it reads better than it jumps around in "modern"
> style.  This may result in fewer questions.
>
> As for the limited invoicing (and statement) capacity, I now understand.
> Indeed, I can live with it for the Lions Club which has 60 members, half of
> whom pay in the first month, the rest bye and bye; we typically send 20-odd
> second notices about 3-4 months into the FY and raise hell with the laggards
> 3 months later.  GNU-cash can easily support that pattern.
>
> I am curious why others in the group have not done it.  Seems like some
> bright hustler might have incorporated into a systematic set of auxiliary
> procs reading the data from a Gnu system and producing whatever he wants.
> Perhaps that has happened; I know so little of my contemporary history
> having been busy as a cockroach in my bailiwick.
>
> Again, thanks
> Herb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:39 PM
> To: Herbert W. Eber
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Generating Customer Bills
>
> Hi,
>
> "Herbert W. Eber" <herb.eber at psychologicalresources.com> writes:
>
>> Derek,
>> Now that you pointed me to the AR technology and I have some ARs, the 
>> receivables aging report is ideal for one of the questions I asked.
>> The other is:
>>
>> How can I prepare the end of month (or whatever time) bills to send to 
>> a non-trivial number of customers whose AR accounts are up to date and 
>> show a non zero balance/  One at a time?  I hope not.
>
> Unfortunately there is no easy way to mass create invoices.  You can
> duplicate older invoices to effectively re-issue new invoices, but you still
> need to do it one-at-a-time.  When I wrote the code I wrote it for my usage,
> which was a consultant with a small number of concurrent customers, so
> invoicing wasn't a common task, and repetative invoicing was a non-existing
> task.
>
>> Herb
>
> -derek
>
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> -derek

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