Simple Operations Query

[Maf. King]

Hi Russell,

On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 07:24, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> After using GnuCash for a few weeks some
> questions still remain:
>
> 	a. How does one create a credit situation for a customer?
> 	   Is it sufficient to simply back data an invoice with
> 	   a negative value?

I had a similar question a while back regarding a credit note I got from one 
of my suppliers.  At the time, GC couldn't handle an invoice/bill with a 
negative total.  I ended up going back and editing the original bill, and put 
an extra split line in along the lines of "credit note issued on <date>" and 
the credit sum as a negative transfer to the relevant expense accounts, which 
had the same effect.

I was probably using 1.8.8 then - don't know if a more recent version can do 
negative invoices.

>
> 	b. Is it possible or desireable to delete a non-posted
> 	   Invoice or Bill? It seems that once an invoice
> 	   has been cut it there is no way to delete it.

Correct - AFAIK the only way to remove an invoice is to manually edit the XML 
(not a good idea!).  However, you can mark it as "inactive" - (there is a 
checkbox on the edit invoice page, IIRC) - that will hide it from all the 
standard reports.

Maf.