About paying bill...

[Patrick GELIN]

Le mar 09/03/2004 à 16:04, Derek Atkins a écrit :
> ok, since you fail to be to able to reply to gnucash-user, I'll force
> the issue...
> 
> Patrick GELIN <patrick.gelin at free.fr> writes:
> 
> > Now I remember something. When I payed my invoices it was 29 february,
> > 2004 and I selected 1 march, 2004 because the Bank Web Site said it'll
> > be taking account only monday... So my computer date was before the
> > invoice payment...and after I've seen the 'pre-payment' value into the
> > "action" column. I'm agree with you there is no "pre-payment" selection
> > into the drop list but the value was "pre-payment"....
> 
> Ahh..  The "Pre-Payment" means you applied a payment to a customer
> before you posted the invoice...  It has nothing to do with the dates
> you used, again those are irrelevant.  The issue at hand with the
> pre-payment is that you went through "process payment" for a customer
> when there were no outstanding invoices to be paid.
> 

ok now it's clear. IN fact I posted the invoice but not in the same
account I payed it. It was an error, I 'll correct it this evenning...

> > Yesturday it was 8 march, 2004 and I payed my invoices always with 1
> > march, 2004 and it's gone (because my computer date was older than the
> > invoice payment date). I notice today there is always two payment with a
> > problem, I don't know why but I'll try again this evening...
> 
> Like I said, the actual date should have no effect.
> 
> >> If you were able to tell me the exact sequence of posts/unposts,
> >> changes, and payments that you did, to get into the state you got
> >> into, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > 1. I created the invoice 
> > 2. I posted it (unposted then re-posted)
> > 3. I payed it
> 
> I've tested this numerous times and it's always worked for me...
> 
> Indeed, the pictures you showed me indicate that you are not using the
> business feature at all.  At least, not until Feb 28, 2004.  All the
> 2003 transactions were outside the business features, so they are
> ignored.
> 
> So, as far as the business features are concerned:
> 
> 1) you posted an invoice for A.A. on 2004-02-02 for 229.20
> 2) you applied a payment to A.A. on 2004-01-03 for 229.20
> 3) you applied ANOTHER payment to S.F.G. on 2004-01-03 for 356.00
> 
> All the rest of the transactions in the register are irrelevant, as
> they were not created through the business features.
> 
> The "Paye" column is also irrelevant -- it has no meaning and should
> be ignored (indeed, the next version of gnucash hides that column).
> 
> So, based on this, this is user error, incorrectly using the A/R and
> A/P accounts.  You should not enter transactions by hand into A/R and
> A/P, you absolutely MUST use the Invoice/Bill interface.
> 

ok, it's clear. Thank you very much for all this explanations. By the
way, do you know a good tutorial for business future? 

> Enjoy,
> 
> -derek