how to enter a sale without going through accounts receivable?

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting red at pixelearth.net:

> I have just started with Gnucash, and am happy so far. I have set up my
> business account, but I don't understand how to handle the following
> basic situation:
>
> How do I enter a payment as a sale without first creating an accounts
> receivable transaction? What is the proper "transfer" account when
> entering in raw sales money that was not invoiced?

You would skip the business features and just enter a normal transaction
from Income -> Checking.  Yet in so doing you'll lose the mapping of
the transaction to the Customer.  But that's your choice; it's all or
nothing at this point.

> Thanks

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-derek

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