improper invoice payments work-around

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 22:18:31 +0100
Johan van Oostrum <jo.vanoost at wanadoo.nl> wrote:

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> Sometimes I found payments do not result in the right invoices marked 
> as paid. Looks like the same problem has been reported more than once 
> in the mailing list but no real soluting other than explanation of the 
> FIFO payment processing.
> Checking the code I found that this glitch seems to be caused by 
> invoices for the same customer having the same date due.
> 
> You can track in dialog_payment.c[gnc_payment_ok_cb], 
> gncInvoice.c[gncOwnerAplyPayment], [gnc_lot_sort_func] 
> [gncInvoiceGetDateDue] and Transaction.c[xaccTransRetDateDueTS].
> 
> As the order of invoices having same date due might not be really the 
> FIFO order, as time is not taken into account, the wrong, i.e. a 
> younger,  invoice might get marked as paid over the right, i.e. older, 
> invoice.
> 
> So, if you have multiple invoices with the same customer, make sure 
> that you have them one day differing in date due and, just to be sure, 
> maybe date posted too. Hopefully some users can use this to get the 
> payments attributed to the right invoice(s).

IIRC, the invoice handling is NOT FIFO, but more like a bucket. all the amounts get accumulated into one total for the customer/vendor. You are really just paying down that total amount, not paying off specific invoices. I think the little check-marks that show which invoice is paid are merely to show how far back you are(?).

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> To conclude with my compliments to the GnuCash developers.
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> Regards,
> Johan van Oostrum
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