Need some help with setting up GNUcash

[mitch]

Hi there,

im looking at using this open source program for my daily dealings on 
ebay and other auction sites.

basically what im looking at doing is the following in point form

- sell products on ebay and be able to enter payment details into 
gnucash and record payment, both in paypal and bank transfer
- enter customer details with contact details
- enter product details, does not have to be do inventory stock control, 
but if i can add new products with cost prices and sell prices that 
would be great
- generate different reports on profit loss and which products sell the best

So this is a basic scenario, a customer by the name of jim will buy 
something on ebay and make payment into my paypal account, i then 
organise shipping and send the product out.

What i would like to do in the program is, enter the new client or look 
up existing client, enter a new invoice or look up an existing invoice 
put the product information and the quantity and also how much the 
product cost me and how much i sold the product for. i get generated an 
invoice number and i will then notify the customer the invoice number 
and the process for delivery, if the payment is by paypal this is 
instantaneous if its by direct deposit it can take a few days so some 
invoices may sit there for a few days whilst waiting for cleared 
payments. Then i would like to also be able to do reporting on how much 
profit i generated on each product if possible and also which products 
sell the best.

hope im not asking for too much. but if anyone could help me out on 
starting this that would be great i can be contacted on msn also if you 
decide that is a better option..

thanks and i hope someone can help otherwise id have to resort to an 
excell file  :(

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Mitch