enhancement requests

[Robert Locke]

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 19:28 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2014 13:58:45 Robert Locke wrote:
<snip>
> > My big challenge back then was figuring out how to deal with
> > application of payments to invoices. In Quickbooks I was able to
> > apply a payment to a particular invoice. Gnucash was treating each
> of
> > my customer's as having a running balance with payments applied to
> > the total. I got around it by "reconciling/clearing" the
> > invoices/payments. I could then just run a report of "unreconciled"
> > invoices to track what a customer might still owe me.
> > 
> 
> It has always been possible to make a payment for one specific
> invoice, even in 2.4. 2.6 extends on this to make it possible to make
> one payment for several invoices at once and you get to choose which.
> Or you can take an ordinary transaction and assign it as a payment to
> one or more invoices. This helps with matching imported transactions
> with open invoices. Two more instruments in addition to the
> undeposited funds account principle...
> 
>  

Yeah, that was really a reference to 1.x when I had to do that. My
current uses of Gnucash (probably the last seven years) are not taking
advantage of "invoicing", but I still use the Undeposited Funds
technique all the time.

--Rob