Deleting customers

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On 21.06.2015 13:22, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Sunday 21 June 2015 07:53:39 Christoph Holtermann wrote:
>> Hello Geert,
>>
>> This question is a bit old, but still moving me.
>> In gnucash I didn't find a way to change the owner of the invoice. If
>> I unpost the invoice I only have the possibility to change the owners
>> details but I couldn't find a way to change between owners. It's the
>> same for the number of the invoice. Using the python bindings I can
>> change both.
>>
> You can do the same in gnucash. I agree the invoice window is misleading in this respect,
> because it lists the owner but no way to choose another one directly.

Owner? Do you mean Customer?

>
> Instead you have to choose "Edit invoice" or something similar (I'm not at a computer with
> gnucash installed right now). There is also a toolbar button for it.
>
> That will pop up the same window you saw when you created the invoice and will allow you
> to choose another owner.

No, it will not. It allows you to screw up your existing Customers name, 
ID, address etc.  I have really hard time calling this "Changing a 
customer on a invoice"

I have no idea how this will affect previous transactions with now 
"updated" client. I am not going to test it :)


>
> Hth,
>
> Geert
>
>> regards,
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 16.11.2014 um 18:34 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>>> On Sunday 16 November 2014 18:26:43 Christoph Holtermann wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Am 15.11.2014 um 09:01 schrieb AC:
>>>>> I was playing around with the business parts of GC just to see
>>>>> what
>>>>>
>>>>> they did (no need for that particular part of the application,
>>>>> just
>>>>>
>>>>> curiosity). Is it possible to delete a customer from the
>>>>> database?
>>>>>
>>>>> There's no obvious interface to do so.
>>>>>
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>>>> That's a good question. I'd like to know that, too.
>>>
>>> I don't think this was ever implemented.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I looked into deleting invoices once but eventually abandoned my
>>> effort. Without extreme precaution gnucash would crash each time.>
>>>> And I'd like to know how to decrement the new customer counter
>>>> because
>>>>
>>>> accidentally it is about 4000 now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Another question: Can I change the customer an invoice belongs to
>>>> ?
>>>
>>> Sure you can: unpost the invoice, edit the invoice, choose another
>>> customer, repost.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are some caveats though: the most straightforward one being
>>> that if you unpost a paid invoice it will become unpaid and the
>>> payment will be kept around as a pre-payment for the customer.
>>> After changing the invoice owner and reposting the payment will not
>>> be reassociated with the invoice. If the payment was meant for this
>>> new customer as well, you'll have to manually remove the old
>>> payment (and probably the accompanying lot link transaction if it
>>> exists) and redo the payment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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