Simple Operations Query
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Feb 12 09:32:05 EST 2005
"Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net> writes:
> 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.
It cannot. Just "Process Payment" and it will provide a customer
credit.
>> 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.
Correct.
> Maf.
-derek
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