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[Geert Janssens]

[[Sorry, forgot to reply to list]]

I have created a feature request for credit notes in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535781

I have added most of the parts of this thread I considered relevant, together 
with some freewheeling on the implementation.

Although I'll probably not be the one to implement it, in this way the 
information won't get lost.

Geert

On Friday 30 May 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm>:
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> A Process Payment gives you that "Negative" number.  What you would
> >> do is Process Payment to, say, your checking account.  Then after
> >> the transaction gets posted you can go in and change it from Checking
> >> to Income.  Make sure you only change the account, not the AMOUNT.
> >> Changing the amount will throw off all the numbers.
> >
> > This doesn't solve the problem of the need to give your customer a
> > credit note. This requirement exists in law, as the credit note
> > contains tax refund details of VAT amounts on the invoice.
> >
> > The real fix it to take out the error check that prevents invoices
> > being posted that have negative totals.
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy.  That check is in there because the
> underlying code uses the Value + AccountType to determine if this is an
> "Invoice" or a "Payment".  All the linkage logic is based on the invariant
> that an Invoice is "positive" and a Payment is "negative"  (obviously
> the numeric positive/negative is different for A/R and A/P, but let's
> not confuse the issue).
>
> That check is in place in order to maintain this invariant.  Removing the
> check would cause the underlying logic to get confused and potentially
> not balance out properly.   I suppose one COULD go through an re-work
> all the logic first to remove the "value sign implies transaction type".
> Then you could remove the negative value check.
>
> Keep in mind that the printed note does not have to be a GnuCash Invoice.
> You just need a some printed note that you can send.  At least that's
> what I'm reading from you, right?   So that would imply that you COULD
> write a *new* "Credit Note" report that happens to work off of a different
> type of transaction than an invoice.
>
> > Regards,
> > Graham
>
> -derek