Invoices: Process Payment

[Derek Atkins]

Sebastian,

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Sebastian--
>
> If I am understanding you correctly, you want to be able to use an
> existing transaction (the one that has been imported to Gnucash) to
> account for an invoice. In my few experiments with using the billing
> features, I was unable to figure out how to do that, and I believe I
> was told that Gnucash doesn't have the option of using an existing
> transaction to pay an invoice. I will be eager to see how this plays
> out for you, as it would help me as well.
>
> David

David is correct here.

As of right now there is no way to assign a split to a customer (see bug
#108570).

The way to do it now is to run Process Payment when you actually get the
payment from the customer, and then during the import mark it as a
duplicate of the existing transaction.

-derek

> --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Sebastian Held <sebastian.held at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> From: Sebastian Held <sebastian.held at gmx.de>
>> Subject: Invoices: Process Payment
>> To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 8:58 AM
>> Hello List, hello Derek,
>> 
>> I'm currently trying to get familiar with the invoice
>> payment procedure, but 
>> it seems to only model the "got cash" way of paying an
>> invoice, correct?
>> 
>> This is, what I want the invoice payment to do:
>>  - I sell s.th. and create an invoice
>>  - this invoice shows up in A/R (asset)
>>  - the Income/Sales is credited
>> 
>>  - now the customer pays the invoice
>>  - via HBCI I see this payment on my checking account
>>  - now I like to "link" this payment with the invoice item
>> in A/R
>>    this seems to be impossible.
>> 
>> The process payment command creates a new transaction to my
>> checking account, 
>> which is not correct.
>> 
>> 
>> Is it possible to modify an imported (via HBCI aka
>> aqbanking) transaction to 
>> behave like a payment?
>> 
>> If not, I'll need to code that. Or is there a fundamental
>> flaw in my 
>> description above?
>> 
>> Sebastian
>> 
>> 
>> PS: I also like to have a more "intelligent" process
>> payment druid (take the 
>> description of the selected transaction and try to find a
>> matching invoice 
>> (customer))
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