Importing Invoices & Expense Reports

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Sep 19 12:56:06 EDT 2009


Hi,

Jeremy Andrews <jeremy at tag1consulting.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using GnuCash for managing the finances for my small consulting
> company.  I currently track hours with a couple of custom open source
> Drupal modules [1] [2], and each month I run reports which I then
> manually turn into GnuCash invoices.  I'm hoping to remove this manual
> step, as it's time consuming and error prone.
>
> My question is:  what is the simplest format that I could export reports
> to, which could then be imported into GnuCash to generate invoices?  I
> need a solution that works with the current stable 2.2.x branch.  I see
> a number of options under the Import menu, but I'm not sure which format
> is best suited to what I'm trying to do or even which formats are easy
> to generate from PHP code.

I'm afraid to say that at this time there is no way in GnuCash to import
any business objects (Customers, Vendors, Invoices, etc).

> I would like to export/import data to generate business custom invoices,
> and also data to generate business employee expense reports.

Sorry.

-derek

PS: This is a user question and should have been asked on the
gnucash-user mailing list.

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