Process vendor payments and negative values

[Derek Atkins]

Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> In my accounts payable, I have received a credit on a particular
> invoice, and the company concerned has decided to reimburse me for the
> amount.
>
> I cannot however register their payment to me in the "process payment"
> dialog, because gnucash forces positive values.

Correct.

> Is there a way to enter a contra amount in the process payment section?

Not really.  You can manually reduce the payment, but that wouldn't
affect the credit on the posted bill.  Basically, the only way to
handle this currently is to post a bill as the rebated-payment or a
new payment as a credited-bill.

> I am using Gnucash v1.8.8.
>
> Regards,
> Graham

-derek

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