Invoices: Process Payment

[Sebastian Held]

Derek,

Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 18:07:27 schrieben Sie:
> 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.

The problem is, that I do not know, a payment has been placed, until I start 
the import. Only then, by looking at my imported transactions (via HBCI) I can 
recognize payments.

I'll have a look at this issue.

Thanks for explaining.

Sebastian

> 
> -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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