Feature request: process multiple invoice with single payment

John Z. Bohach jzb2 at aexorsyst.com
Thu Aug 9 18:44:29 EDT 2007


On Thursday 09 August 2007 12:23:54 pm Derek Atkins wrote:
> Um, gnucash has ALWAYS supported this.  It will pay the invoices
> in FIFO order.  If you select an invoice in the process payment
> dialog (you dont have to! it's completely optional) then it puts
> that invoice at the front of the FIFO, but any overpayment will
> then spill over to the next one in the list.  Gnucash has ALWAYS
> supported this.
>
> -derek
>

Sorry then, my misunderstanding...I wasn't quite able to glean that from 
the documentation or the mail-list archives...this will be very useful.

Thanks.

> Quoting "John Z. Bohach" <jzb2 at aexorsyst.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a programmer, even did some Scheme work way back in the old
> > days (loved programming in Scheme...) of TI-Scheme on a IBM-DOS
> > box.
> >
> > Judging from some of the comments on the gnucash-users mailing
> > list, my own experiences, and reality, it is quite often the case
> > that a customer will send a payment for multiple invoices on a
> > single check.
> >
> > We are switching to gnucash from Quickbooks/M$, where this feature
> > was available and quite useful.
> >
> > If someone could direct me to the source code area where such an
> > enhancement could be made, I'd start trying to implement this
> > feature...unless someone has already...in which case I could
> > assist, if needed.  Also, if anyone has some words of wisdom on
> > what I should lookout for/consider along the way, that would be
> > appreciated...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John Z. Bohach
> >
> > P.S.:  Thanks to everyone who has worked on this project for so
> > long...it is a really great program that is well on its way to
> > competing with the proprietary accounting programs.
> > _______________________________________________
> > gnucash-devel mailing list
> > gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel




More information about the gnucash-devel mailing list