A/R and payments

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

Hello Derek,

Thanks much for all explanations!

With kind regards,
-- 
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >Aha, after I changed the Customer's currency to EUR, I can see the newly
> >added invoices in the A/R with the correct Invoice value. Thanks!
> 
> Makes sense...
...
> >LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
> 
> OH!  Well, that explains the USD...
...
> >* I would expect that GnuCash refuses to post an invoice to an A/R
> > account in another currency. Is the current behavior how it is
> > intended to work?
> 
> Well, depends on exactly what you mean by "intended".  The business
> system was designed with only a single currency in mind.  I.e.,
> the business code is NOT multi-currency-safe.  But it doesn't enforce
> the single-currency, and when you, the user, screw it up and don't
> maintain consistency then it wont work right, which is the behavior
> you saw.
> 
> >* The Customer Report sometimes shows the list with both USD and EUR,
> > and sometimes it doesn't show the EUR invoices.
> 
> This is probably because you've got a mixed currency system.  Your locale
> currency is USD.  Change that to EUR and you'll probably be MUCH happier.
> (note that you need to change this in your LOCALE, not in gnucash).
> 
> >* Is it possible to delete Customers and Invoices?
> 
> Nope.  But you can mark them "inactive" so they no longer show up
> on the default searches.
> 
> >* It would be nice to have Customer and Invoice listings just like
> > transactions, so that it's possible to see all of them without having
> > to search them.
> 
> Noted, but unlikely to ever happen unless someone donates the code.
> Note that you DO have the aging reports which can list customers, and
> from there you can get to a list of customer's invoices, and from there
> to the individual invoices...